Israel, Islam, and Western Civilization

By Rich Kozlovich 

How quickly Israelis forget and what the western world's leaders seem to wish to ignore is, quoting Lt. Col. James Zumwalt in this article:

On October 7th, Hamas brutally slaughtered babies in their cribs, burned entire families alive, and murdered children and parents in their homes. IDF soldiers are fighting and sacrificing their lives not just for Israel, but to defend the entire free world. If Israel doesn't defeat this terror, you will be next. It's time for the world to wake up.

Here's a a quote from one of my subscription news sites:

Israeli protests. In Israel, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir condemned nationwide demonstrations demanding a comprehensive ceasefire with Hamas to secure the release of Israeli hostages. Smotrich described the protests as aiding Hamas, while Ben-Gvir said they undermine government efforts and delay hostage returns. Protesters blocked roads and burned tires, particularly in Tel Aviv. Meanwhile, the chief of staff of Israel's military said Israeli forces would soon begin the next phase of operations to destroy Hamas. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also affirmed that military operations will continue until Hamas is defeated.

So, given these protests I think we should start with my four Anyone But Bibi commentaries, wherein I show the left wing Israeli government that ousted Netanyahu had only one moral foundation:  Create an "Anyone but Bibi" government.  A government with no shared vision, plan or direction.   The end result?  Suffering, which was turning into a very real existential threat to Israel.  

Suffering really is the beginning of wisdom, and the nation of Israel, after four failed elections in five years, voted to bring Bibi back, and they voted overwhelmingly to do so, allowing him to create a stable government which the disgruntled "Never Netanyahu" camp of leftists have consistently failed to do, and now Israeli's are condemning Netanyahu, partners of his coalition are walking away, and Israel is embracing national suicide.  

There was an article that appeared in Geopolitical Futures, explaining why the Israeli War is unsustainable dealing with the three major factors in all geopolitical issues.  Geographics, economics, and demographics.  

First, geographics, Israel is surrounded by Islamic nations.  Here's a defining map that appeared in a Geopolitical Futures article:

 

This has been a multi-front war, some claiming a seven front war, which I think is an accurate description and has been going on for decades, with this latest outbreak going on for two years.  With all these terrorist driven wars there's no definitive way to end them, and this doesn't only impact Israel.  Immigration jihad is impacting the entire western world.

1. Turkey Hosts Hamas Official Calling for Israel’s Destruction, Arming of Qassam Brigades
2. Hamas-Linked CAIR Unleashes 50,000-Strong Muslim Army Trained to Dismantle America’s Institutions

This brings us to the issue of demographics, and Israel's population isn't large, just under ten million people, and that creates a problem providing sufficient forces to deal with all these fronts putting a huge strain on their military personnel.  Israel only has 170,000 active duty military personnel with 300,000 reservists dealing with all these fronts facing a Muslim population surrounding them of over 370 million, with millions of active duty personnel and who knows how many thousands of terrorists.   This places a massive strain on Israel's military, with the gap between objectives and ability widening.  Fatigue, and refusing to serve longer is becoming an issue, and we're now seeing erosion of one of the most important components for success; "domestic cohesion", especially dealing with the special privileges of the Orthodox Israelis military exemptions, which has been resented from the beginning of the nation.    

Lastly, economics.  This war has placed a massive strain on their economy, since 2023 the cost has reached just under 70 billion dollars, with the costs continuing to escalate, but spending is only the tip of the iceberg.    When you're having to supply the military with so many workers it results in labor shortages, and many areas of economic interest are now drying up, including tourism.  As one writer observed:

For Israel, the past two years have revealed the limits of a system designed for short wars. Manpower is exhausted, economic pressure is mounting and political cohesion is eroding. At the strategic level, the gap between military objectives and capacity is only growing. Without clearly defined end goals, deterrence risks decay, and operations persist without closure.

Netanyahu has a plan, and that's to take over Gaza, and remove hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of Gaza, Israeli's are protesting, the western world is protesting and abandoning Israel while supporting people who are nothing more than brutal sadistic psychopathic monsters following a criminal political movement masquerading as a religion called Islam. 

 

What could possibly go wrong? 

Is There a Gaza War Solution?

By Rich Kozlovich

Yesterday I published these two pieces, Western Stupidity and the Two State Solution and The Gaza Starvation and Genocide Farce outlining two things. First, the leaders of western nations are clueless and they'll embrace any lie that degrades Israel and promotes these terrorists and the terrorism they practice, which will come back to haunt them, and they will deserve what's coming their way.  

What's also shocking, although given the insanity they've been spewing out for decades it shouldn't be, is how the media has warped this whole story:

The Media’s Shameful Modesty over Skeletal Israeli Hostages - Evyatar David is skin and bones. He is 24 years old; he was 22 when he was kidnapped 668 days ago by Hamas at the Nova music festival. Mainstream Western media have given little or no coverage to the video released by Hamas, in which David is forced to dig his own grave in a Gaza tunnel, barely able to hold the shovel, while the other hostage, Rom Braslavski, also emaciated, is shown writhing in agony from hunger. His captors seem to revel in his physical and mental anguish. Two hostages walled up alive in Gaza’s catacombs built with UN funds...........

Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee exposes how CBS News edited an interview Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has essentially accused CBS News of leaving so much of an interview with him on the cutting room floor that it effectively changed the tenor of the interview. CBS News’s goal was obvious: To make Israel look genocidal and to make the Trump administration look either feckless or complicit..........

What's most shocking is the suicidal mentality of leftist Israelis who are marching demanding the end of the war and the return of all the hostages, no matter the cost.  While I can certainly understand their deep emotional need to see their loved ones returned, I can't understand their willingness to destroy Israel in the process.  

Hamas doesn't want the war to end, and accepting cease fire agreements, which they will invariably violate, aren't the same as ending wars.   They're a death cult that wants Israel destroyed, and if taking a lot of hostages gets them what they want, they'll just keep taking hostages, making agreements they won't keep, and getting enough time to rearm and attack again.  

What can possibly be going on in the minds of nearly 600 Israeli ex-security officials who appealed to Trump to end the war saying:

“It is our professional judgement that Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat to Israel,” reads the open letter, which was sent on Friday and shared with the media later. “You did it in Lebanon. Time to do it in Gaza as well.” “Chasing remaining senior Hamas operatives can be done later. Our hostages can’t wait.”

Andrea Widburg posted this piece, The suicidal impulses of leftist Jews on August 9, 2025 expressing dismay at the irrational destructive views of leftist Israeli Jews. 

Joan Swirsky posted an interesting piece explaining the geyser of Jew-hatred over all, but her analysis of what she calls, "The Self-Hate Factor", is interesting asking and explaining how it's possible for how Jews can hate themselves.

Surprisingly, the answer is simple: It’s hard to be a Jew, and this species is simply not up to it.  Yes, they can be proud of their brains and talents, but when it comes to their backbones — that’s another story. For many Jews, being a member of the world’s most historically vilified minority is just “too much” to cope with.  Liberal Jews are not psychologically up to any of these challenges, hence their pathetic over-eagerness to “understand” the people who hate them, to accommodate the enemies of Israel, to capitulate to the ever-escalating and invariably one-sided demands for “compromise,” to slavishly follow Jews like linguist Noam Chomsky, playwright Tony Kushner, and journalist Peter Beinert, who are so suffused with Jew-hatred that their entire lives have been devoted to amputating any vestige of Jewish identity from their beings.

So, when Netanyahu and his government decided it was time for a permanent military occupation of Gaza as the only workable solution to the end of this war, the left in and out of Israel, the media and western Europe, went nuts.  

Several world leaders have condemned the plan, and the UN has warned it would lead to "more massive forced displacement" and "more killing". Hamas warned of "fierce resistance" to the move. The plan also faces fierce opposition within Israel – including from military officials and hostages' families. 

What's in this plan of occupation? There are five principles involved. 

1. The disarmament of Hamas
2. The return of all hostages, both living and dead
3. The demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip
4. Israeli security control over the Gaza Strip
5. The establishment of an alternative civilian administration that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority.

They would continue to provide humanitarian aid to the "civilian population outside the combat zones"..... aid that would actually be delivered to the civilian population and not stolen by Hamas, so it's understandable why Hamas is outraged over this, calling this "a new war crime"..... "We warn the criminal occupation that this criminal adventure will cost it dearly and will not be an easy journey......"  Well, I agree, it won't be an easy journey, but especially for Hamas.  

I'll end this piece by stating all geopolitics is predicated on three major factors.  Geographics, Demographics, and Economics.  Sustainability is an issue, which I will address next week.  

 

Western Stupidity and the Two State Solution

By Rich Kozlovich

 Over a large part of my life this idea of a two state solution involving Israel and so-called Palestinians has been touted over and over again.  Thirty years ago it was thought possible by a substantial number of Israeli's.   Then the riots, the relentless acts of terror, bombs being exploded in public places, missile attacks killing civilians indiscriminately.  This idea of "land for peace" has turned into an abject failure, and the Two-State Solution Died on October 7, as it was clear any independent Islamic state within Israel's borders was nothing more than a staging area for Israel's enemies to attack and destroy Israel. 

Western liberals, and even conservatives, embraced the two state concept, but the Muslims never wanted a separate state with Israel, they wanted Israel destroyed.  That should have been obvious to the most casual observer, yet these “leaders” still won’t abandon that idiotic idea. Why? Because they understand the only real solution is for Israel to kick out these Arabs who claim they’re Palestinians just as the surrounding Arab nations have done in the past, and they’re unwilling to embrace that truth.

The only answer is Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must become completely occupied, then filled with Israeli settlements and become a permanent part of Israel, and kick out any so-called Palestinians, just like their Arab Muslim “brothers” have done all over the Middle East, and that includes the West Bank. Anything else is a capitulation to terrorists monsters.

Let's start with the incontestable fact that the true peacemaker among the world's leaders is Donald Trump, and United Nations really is a "hive of scum and villainy", and then proceed to the insanity being promoted by western "leaders" proclaiming they will recognize a Palestinian state. 

• The U.N. Betrays Its Own Charter with Premature Palestine Recognition  No Palestinian Membership Application Has Passed Muster in the U.N. Security Council, Rendering Statehood a Legal and Political Impossibility.....
• Emmanuel Macron, who has never been the brightest pebble in the brook, you can't negotiate with terrorists, and now the Netherlands is banning two Israeli officials over Gaza “rhetoric”. 
• Prime minister Starmer is threatening to also recognize Palestine if Netanyahu doesn’t take “substantive measures” in Gaza, whatever the heck that means, except as an open ended platform for “substantive” demands that will never end.
• Canada’s Recognition of a Palestinian State Betrays Western Values - Canada is preparing to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations as early as September 2025. Prime Minister Mark Carney has framed the decision as both a moral obligation and a diplomatic necessity. In reality, it represents a sharp break from Canada’s democratic principles—and a betrayal of its closest ally, the United States......
• Australia to recognise Palestinian state in September -  Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, following similar moves by the UK, France and Canada, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. Albanese said Australia received commitments from the Palestinian Authority (PA) including to demilitarise, hold general elections and continue to recognise Israel's right to exist. "A two-state solution is humanity's best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict, suffering and starvation in Gaza,"............ 

The man actually said "A two-state solution is humanity's best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict, suffering and starvation in Gaza."  It really is true, you can't fix stupid.  

• The Eurabian Push for a Hamas State -  The hostility toward Israel in Europe is matched only by the enthusiasm for establishing a Palestinian state controlled by Hamas. Leading this effort is France: President Emmanuel Macron announced on July 25 that his country would recognize a Palestinian state later this year. Knesset member Dan Illouz rightly opposed such a state as “a gift to the terrorists of October 7.” Four days later, at a U.N. conference, France and Saudi Arabia led the New York Declaration, aiming for a “tangible, time-bound and irreversible” step toward the creation of Palestine. The 26-page document, a study in mendacious one-sidedness, is the latest sign of Europe’s anti-Israel sentiment, which has been prevalent since the founding of the Jewish state........
• The Mirage of Palestinian Statehood – On the face of it, winning international recognition would seem to be a victory for Palestinian diplomacy—a strategic success won despite battlefield defeat at the hands of Israel. Many have criticized the Canadian, French, and British on these same grounds, arguing that recognition is effectively rewarding Hamas, granting them what they wanted despite the fact that they started the most recent war with their bloody incursion into Israel in October 2023. .........Whatever violence may or may not be legitimate in establishing national independence, we can be sure that violence that establishes fictional states—states whose only existence is on the NGO conference circuit—is not only morally reprehensible but also politically futile. .....
• Ambassador Huckabee Blasts Weak European Leaders Backing Hamas  Hamas is a doomsday terrorist organization. It will never surrender so long as one member is still alive.   "There is one reason there is suffering in Gaza, it's the same reason that 1200 people were massacred on October the 7th. It's the same reason that 250 people were taken hostage, 50 of them continue to be held hostage and tortured and that's because of Hamas. They are a terror organization and they've acted like it," Huckabee said during an interview with Fox News over the weekend, blasting weak European politicians. "All of this time, Israel has done everything it can. They've made I don't know ow many offers in order to get the hostages out, to end this." "Hamas always walks away, always says no,"

Perhaps they need to start reading the history between Europe and Islam.  Europe’s Forgotten Enslavement: The Brutal Islamic Slave Raids That Captured Millions. That’s who they were, that’s who they are, and that’s who they will always be. After almost 1500 years of incontestable history why is that so hard to get?

• World Rewards Hamas for Its Atrocities 

All of these nations are heavily infected with Islamists, and soon Israel will be the least of their concerns. Also, Trump said Macron’s views are meaningless, and that goes for the rest of them also. Trump has tamed their egos and made it clear, Europe no longer counts, it's a second rate continent working dilligently to become a third rate continent with a dead culture.  If they keep allowing unrestricted Islamic immigration, Europe will no longer exist as we know Europe, and there will be three Islamic nations with nuclear weapons. Iran, France, and the UK.

 

They are in point of fact rewarding terrorism, and by their demands they're creating standards that will prevent winning wars against monsters, totally losing sight of this one incontrovertible fact that what happens in Gaza won't stay in Gaza.

  

To quote a man who calls himself Granpa: 

All the shouting about a two-state solution is, as from Macbeth: “"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” 

 One final thought about the UN.  They're stunned, stunned I tell you, to find the Taliban oppress women.  Imagine that, and these are leaders?  How can anyone be so ignorant and  so stupid?  How can anyone take anything anyone that ignorant and stupid seriously?  Then again, maybe their lying.  Not much of a recommendation.

The Gaza Starvation and Genocide Farce

By Rich Kozlovich

I keep reading where mental midgets on the left and their media catspaws keep screaming how Israel is perpetrating genocide against Gazans.  The word genocide has been cheapened by these claims. There is no genocide in Gaza, unless you consider the fact that Hamas has willingly sacrificed their own people for political gain, including stealing their food.   

Has there been civilian loss of life among Gazans in this war? Yes, that's why they call it war, and it was a war the Gaza leadership started, and it was Gazans who celebrated dancing in the streets at the atrocities Hamas perpetrated against Israeli civilians in including baking a baby alive in an oven, filming it for public consumption, and Gazans cheered.  

What did the world think was going to happen after the atrocities of October 7th?   There are no innocent Gazans as there were no innocent Germans during WWII with the fire bombing of Dresden, or innocent Japanese during the bombing raids of Japan and the dropping of two atom bombs.  That's the horror of war, and if people don't want to face that horror, they shouldn't start a war.  

If Israel was actually wanting to perpetrate Gazan genocide they could have done it on day one of their retaliation.  If they wanted to perpetrated genocide why is Israel providing massive levels of aid to Gazans, something no military has ever done for an enemy population, and Gazans are Israel's enemy, and yet we've seen a massive public relations effort to claim Israel is attemptiong to starve Gazans to death. 

Democrat Senator from Delaware Chris Van Hollen, whose record for idiotic leftist views is almost legendary, claims Netanyahu is using food as a weapon of war, as if that's never been done before, but is it true?

• ‘Global Campaign of Lies’: Netanyahu Rejects Starvation Allegations, Says IDF Will Open Gaza to Journalists – National Review

The fact is this claim of wide spread starvation among Gazans was invented by Hamas and the United Nations.   If aid isn't getting to the civilian population is being caused by "a combination of United Nations policies, Hamas looting, and black-market profiteering."  

• Anti-Israel Photographer Stages Photographs of Hunger in Gaza

This article by Daniel Greenfield, UN Admits 95% of its Gaza Aid Trucks Were “Intercepted”, clearly depicts just how corrupt the UN has been over this issue saying:

Back when the UN had been in charge it had faked its own famine by refusing to deliver food and letting it pile up instead. Since then the UN’s food aid has kept on piling up even while GHF, an American Christian aid group, has managed to deliver millions of meals to Gaza residents, despite being smeared by the media as “controversial” for feeding those whom the UN wouldn’t........... 

The UNOPS ‘Mechanism for Gaza’ revealed that of the around 2,600 aid trucks entering Gaza, only 300 made it to their destination. 2,310 trucks or 88% of them were ‘intercepted’............ The UN’s WFP recently claimed that it has run out of food stocks and needs $265 million for just the next 6 months to feed Gaza. Where did its food stocks go? Certainly not to aid stations............ 

The best evidence of it is that Hamas made the restoration of UN control over aid into Gaza one of its conditions for a deal. Why would an Islamic terrorist group care who distributes the aid?.........After an aid delivery success ratio in the single digits, the UN is terrible at delivering aid in Gaza, but it’s a stunning success when it comes to its political and economic support of Hamas.

As for this starvation .... the children are dying.... scheme we're seeing in Gaza, it's not unique to Gaza.  In fact it seems to be one of the go to plans used by these terrorist monsters, much of which are predicated on deliberate and outright lies. 

Do you want to see real starvation and genocide? 

• Hypocrisy Exposed: International Outlets Largely Ignore Emaciated Israeli Hostages After Featuring False Starving Gaza Children Pictures
•  Israel Challenges New York Times to Publish Photo of Starving Hostage 
• Report: Hamas Video Shows Israeli Hostage Forced to ’Dig Own Grave’

 Hamas could not defeat Israel militarily, so their go to plan is to claim they're the real victims, not the hostages and innocent men they murdered, the innocent women they raped and murdered, and the innocent children they murdered, all actions lauded by Gazans.  And they get away with it because they understand western leaders live in a moral vacuum.  

• Hamas Understands the Myopia and Moral Imbecility of the West: Hamas understands that if it forces the suffering of its own people, if it maximizes and even falsifies media coverage of that suffering, then the West will rehabilitate Hamas and grant it its demands.  Hamas understands that Westerners are utterly ignorant to the true evil of Hamas, their willingness to multiply the suffering of Palestinians and Israelis alike, to starve their own citizens as well as Israeli hostages, to sacrifice Palestinian children by placing them in the line of fire, all for the cameras; Hamas understands that myopic and self-centered Westerners will simply project their own biases and values onto Hamas, thus granting them unearned innocence and sympathy; Hamas understands that the media would facilitate all of this, elevating a false oppressor/oppressed narrative above the truth.

Hamas is death cult, it really is that simple. 

Israel Iranian War

By Rich Kozlovich

Along with my thoughts, much of what appears here is from a subscription article by Kamran Bokhari, an analyst for Geopolitical Futures, so I can't link it for you, but I wanted to make sure he got credit for this analysis,  and you'll just have to take my word for what was said, or not, as it pleases you, 

The war between Iran and Israel is on hold. I don't say over because it's not over, it will never be over as long as Islam exists because Islam is at war with the world, in perpetuity, whether there's fighting or not.  Jihad is foundational to Islamic belief, and can take on many forms such as immigration jihad that's taking place throughout western civilization.  

Since Trump declared a cease fire (whatever happened to unconditional surrender) there's been all these claims the attack on the nuclear facilities have been a failure and has only set Iran's nuclear program back a few months.  Well, I wonder how they know that since it being reported even the Iranian government doesn't know how bad the damage really is.   It's being reported from intelligence sources their military leaders are hiding the true damage to their nuke sites from Iran's leadership.

It was obvious from the beginning Israeli intelligence has deeply penetrated all levels of Iran's government and military, so I think that assessment merits more credibility than CNN, and satellite image analysis will take time and isn't that same as eyes on the scene intelligence.   

One thing we need to grasp is Iran's government isn't harmonious, and as one writer noted:

Iran’s long-running internal evolution underway for nearly two decades and nearing an inflection point – has accelerated.

As for right now, their nuke program has been halted, and the damage to the political system is as meaningful as the damage to their nuke program, and what may well be a huge change in their military leadership, with a lot of junior officers moving up in the ranks quickly, and needing time to settle in and stabilize their commands.  Something I've just become aware of is the decades long dissent between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Artesh.

The IRGC is ideologically in harmony with the ruling Iranian clerics running the government with power to impose their views on both domestic and foreign policy, militarily as well as economically, and were created to protect the government from internal threats, and they've been brutal.

The Artesh is the traditional military and is forbidden from any political involvement, and for good reason from the view of the Iranian government.  It appears they're not true believers, and most government funding goes to the IRGC, not Artesh.  The Artesh was purged early on because it was believed they had loyalty to the Shah, but they weren't eliminated because they were needed to fight the Iran/Iraq war.  Eight years of economic and humanitarian devastation, but that war also transformed the IRGC into a parallel military and then dominant military.   

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wanted to bring the "Artesh into ideological conformity with the regime by "appointing loyalist commanders and embedding clerics as advisers" into Artesh  I don't think that really worked to tell you the truth.  

But this may now change as it was the IRGC that pushing the proxy war for years, and now that's been crushed, the Assad regime is done, all destroying the "ring of fire" they created around Israel and now Israel has crushed Iran, and Artesh's only concern is national security, and it appears they're taking charge as the IRGC is being blamed for all these defeats. 

Iranians are Persian and look down on Arabs. Islam is an Arab movement and for centuries Persians had a history of Zoroastrianism, an ancient monotheistic religion that has more in common with Christianity and Judaism than Islam emphasizing the differences between good and evil, and the importance of doing good.  I’ve been reading that’s still a force in their culture, whether that’s true or not remains to be seen.  If it is, I’m inclined to think that would be the foundational force that generates regime change internally.  

One thing we need to be clear about.  It's not our job to fix the world.  Jews have a term for it: Tikkun Olam:

 "A Jewish concept defined by acts of kindness performed to perfect or repair the world. The phrase is found in the Mishnah, a body of classical rabbinic teachings. It is often used when discussing issues of social policy, ensuring a safeguard to those who may be at a disadvantage."

Well, we've tried that and it fails over the long run due to four things.  Geography, demography, economics, and foundational cultural paradigms we don't really understand.   

We’re too far away, we’re mostly confused about the issues all these various populations have, as a result we don't have the answers to their problems, and finally, we don’t have the money.  If we did understand the social complexities, and if we did have the money, it wouldn’t matter as all these endeavors are Lewis Carroll rabbit holes that can never be fixed or filled,  If regime change is to come, let them do it, or not, but it's clear Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons.  

Here's all the articles I've been saving over this latest unpleasantry between Islam and the world, and let's start with The Man Who Owns the Current Iran Crisis, Barack Obama, followed up with Victor Davis Hanson's Ten Iranian Questions, and Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Five Takes on Bombing Iran.  

The conservative Republican reactions,  Cotton: Iran Should Not Retaliate Against Americans if They Want to Continue in Power, and Senate Majority Leader Thune: Iran ‘Rejected All Diplomatic Pathways to Peace’.  It must be noted there are those who see reality clearly, Pro-Israel Voters Rejoice: ‘Thank God We Voted for Donald Trump!’.  

Democrat Reactions: The Democrats have once again marched over the cliff in lock step, ignoring history, reality and sanity.  Why Would Anyone Vote for These People?

1. Democrat Party in Disarray After American Bombing of Iran
2.  Midnight Hammer vs. midnight yammer
3.  Alexandria Ocrazio-Cortex Calls for Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump 
4. Oh No! AOC and Other Unhinged Dems Say Trump's Iran Attack Is Clearly Grounds for Impeachment
5. AOC: Trump's Decision to Bomb Iran Was 'Disastrous'
6. Democrats Furious at Trump Decision to Bomb Iran’s Nuke Sites
7.  Cuck Schumer Breaks Silence, Opposes Trump Attack on Iran
8. 3 things that happened just this week that tell us Dems are insane
9. Jeffries: Trump ‘Failed’ to Bring Peace
10. Reactions Left Explodes… Massie: ‘Unconstitutional’
11. Obama Bro Tommy Vietor's Tantrum Insisting Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal WAS WORKING Blows UP In His Face

International Response: 

I'm never quite sure why these nitwits run to defend Iran, but the do, especially when nations like China, N. Korea, and Russia, all of which have zero moral values.   

1. China, Seeking Relevance, Blames U.S. for Iran’s Illicit Nuclear Activities
2. North Korea Calls Israel a ‘Cancer,’ Backs Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
3. Russia’s Medvedev Blasts Trump After Iranian Military Strikes – Says “A Number of Foreign Countries Ready to Directly Supply Iran with Nuclear Warheads”
4. Iran’s Allies in Latin America Condemn Trump Strikes
5. U.N. Secretary General Condemns U.S. Strike on Iran as ‘Dangerous Escalation’
6. Norway and Anti-Semitism     
7. Russian Leader Claims Multiple Nations Are ‘Ready to Directly Supply Iran’ With Nuclear Weapons Following U.S. Attack  

Iranian Propaganda  

Iran is never at a loss for chest pounding and threats, and I love the post where Iran says Trump... and Israel... started this war and they will end it.  After decades of terrorist attacks and direct attacks they're somehow claiming innocence?  Yes, that's Islam.  No matter what vile thing they do that's acceptable since the Koran allows it.  But to retaliate against them is a rebuke to Allah, and therefore the wrong only belongs to those who defend themselves against Islamic horrors, which is why CAIR Condemns Trump’s Strike: ‘Illegal and Unjustified’, and the vicious murdering monsters of Hamas Condemns Trump Iran Strikes: ‘Brutal Aggression’ .

1. Uh-Huh: ‘Iran’s swift response forced enemy to end hostilities, Supreme National Security Council says 
2. Iran State TV Anchor to Trump: ‘You Started It, We will End It’
3. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi: US Will Have to Take Full Responsibility for Its Attacks on Iranian Nuclear Facilities 

Nukes:

 

Let's finally dispense with the lies they only wanted nukes for energy production.  They have unlimited energy resources and have no need for nuclear power.  One more thing.  It appears the International Atomic Energy Agency " has lost track of 400 kilograms (880 pounds) of Iranian uranium enriched to 60 percent."   What could possibly go wrong?

1. Ten nukes? And a June 15 'go' date? 
2. IAEA Declares Iran In Breach of Nuclear Obligations
3. Iran Threatens Head of U.N. Nuclear Agency for Revealing Enrichment
4. Khanna: Iran Will Walk from Nonproliferation Treaty, Boot Inspectors 
5.  Iran Vows Uranium Enrichment Will Continue
6. Israeli intel assesses that Iran’s nuclear program set back ‘several years,’ but not destroyed — official 
7. President Trump’s Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Sites Did Not And Will Not Start A War
8. Iran’s Atomic Energy Chief Wants to Restore Nuclear Industry After Airstrikes
9. Dissident Group Reveals Iran’s Covert Nuclear Bomb Program
10. US Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Sites Involved 125 Aircraft, 14 Bunker Busters Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi: US Will Have to Take Full Responsibility for Its Attacks on Iranian Nuclear Facilities 

Regime Change  

1. Is Iran Ready for Regime Change, And Is The NCRI The Right Way To Change?
2. Trump says he’s opposed to regime change in Iran, says it will bring ‘chaos’.  

Surrender?

Has Iran really surrendered, or is this just a stalling tactic.  Yes, they've surrendered in order to stall for time.  During the Barbary pirate days a US naval vessel crossed paths with a Barbary pirate naval vessel and a battle ensued.  The Muslims were losing so the struck their flag and surrendered.  The American ship stopped firing and moved closer, and the Muslim ship raised it flag and started firing.  That happened three times, and the America captain had enough the third time and blasted them to paradise.  Why did they do that?  Because Islam allows them to do it.  Any deception or lies to infidels is not only acceptable, it's encouraged.

1. Do the Iranians View This Ceasefire as a Temporary “Tactical Pause” Known as a “Hudna” in Islam? 
2. Mark Meadows on how Israel could cripple Iran financially 
3. Iran Effectively Surrenders to the United States 
4. End game for the Mullahs?
5. Shortest Term Ever? - Israel Decapitates New Chief of Iranian Armed Forces Right After He Takes Over for Last Chief, Whom They Also Killed  
6. IDF Chief: We Have Turned Iran’s ‘Ring of Fire’ Against It 
7. The Iranian Navy isn’t a match for the U.S. Navy—or an enraged world 
8. Israel to the leaders of Iran: What’s my name?!

Trump:

Trump is the reason why Putin made his moves while either Democrats or RINO's were in power.  They talked the talk but failed to walk the talk.  

1. Trump’s Iran Strike Shows Precisely Why Elections Matter 
2. The Iran strikes that proved the influencers wrong: Why Trump’s base never blinked
3. President Trump Cut Through the Noise 
4. The Trump Iran Strikes Were a Message to China 
5. President Trump’s Constitutional Strike Against Iran 
6. Trump’s precise, carefully calibrated strike sends a strong message
7. Trump just took back what Obama gave Iran
8. More than Iran: Was the U.S. strike a global power signal?
9. The Trump Iran Strikes Were a Message to China
10. Top Officials Speak at Pentagon: Trump Achieved What Many Before Could Not 
11. Trump: Iran Will Face ‘Force Far Greater’ If It Strikes Back
12. The world is turned upside down!
13. If You Oppose Donald Trump on Iran, You’re Backing Nukes

Let's Have Negotiations....Maybe!

By Rich Kozlovich

Iran's government has unendingly shouted how it will destroy Israel and the Great Satan, the United States.  When Israel finally attacked it warned America to stay out of it or face the consequences of Iranian wrath. Well, Israel has been attacking Iran for what would be the sixth day, and Iranian wrath has amounted to many of the leadership being killed and running scared.  Those in leadership positions clearly understand this is the end of their rule, and justifiably fear what will happen to them when it all collapses.  

Private citizens are moving away from the target areas and some out of the country, and it's being reported Khamenei is hiding with family in bunker somewhere.  This is the end for the ayatollahs.  When the leader leaves the battlefield, the battle is over.

The military is rife with desertions, their oil repositories, refineries, and petrochemical plants are being destroyed, their nuke facilities being attacked and partially destroyed.  Their military capability is directly being targeted.  They no longer have an air force, or much left in the way of air defense capability, their official news source has been destroyed, and it's clear their entire government has been infiltrated at the highest levels by spies feeding up to date information to Israel otherwise there would be no way Israel could have targeted the leadership for destruction as they did.   It's even claimed their counter espionage units are filled with spies.  Most likely Iranians who hate their government.  

In the next few days Iran's population will be without power, fuel, and many will find food supplies limited, and that will be the end of any semblance of stability.  Violence is going to break out, and it seems unlikely the regime will be able to stop it.  

The value of their currency is dropping like a stone.  Inflation is skyrocketing and the government is introducing foreign currency into their market, but still has to make sure their lackeys are paid and fed, seriously limiting how much they can do to stop this economic bloodshed. 

One sociology professor has written his views of the Iranian government's actions:

“Who or what has given you the right or legitimacy to drive our country and its integrity—bequeathed to us by the great figures and martyrs of this land—toward destruction?” ............“Whether you accept it or not, the people of this country no longer see you as their legitimate rulers. Your continued presence in politics is a disgrace to reason, morality, and the political history of this land.”

Israel has made it clear, there are targets that must be destroyed before any negotiations happen.  As for the claim that if the U.S. gives Israel the bunker buster bombs necessary to really destroy the Nuke sites means that America is at war with Iran?  If so, then why is it when Iran supplied drones to Russia they weren't at war with Ukraine? When N. Korea supplied military hardware and man power to the Russians why doesn't it mean they're at war with Ukraine?  The same with China supplying soldiers for the Russian army, why doesn't that mean China is at war with Ukraine?  If not, then why the double standard?  

While Trump has consistently asked for negotiations with Iran, they've arrogantly rebuffed him.  They just never grasped who they're dealing with.   He isn't Joe Biden, Barack Obama, or Jimmy Carter. Now that Iran's defensive and offensive capability has been ripped to shreds Iran is begging for negotiations in order to stop the attacks.  Israel is decimating Iran, and as "President Trump has noted, these clowns had their chance, but instead of cutting a deal... they blew it." And now Trump's not in the mood to negotiate.  The USAF is deploying for potential action in the Middle East, and Israel is saving civilization.

While Iraq’s Hezbollah brigades are making a lot of noise about attacking the Great Satan on Iran's behalf, the rest of the Muslim world isn't all that upset, as they consider Iran the real danger to the stability of the region, not Israel or the U.S.

Here’s the way I see it. If Iran is talking negotiations they’re in deep trouble and they’re actually talking delay in their destruction in the hope of realigning their forces. So, if they want to have a sit down it starts after their oil production is destroyed, along with their military installations, their energy plants, and their sea ports and navy. Once that’s done then if they still want to negotiate they must agree to these preconditions.

1. The end of, and the dismantling of, all their the their nuke research.
2. The end of their support of Hamas, Hezbollah, and any other terrorist movement.
3. Their military reduced by 75 percent immediately.
4. The end to selling or distributing military hardware internationally.
5. Agree to the end of their current government, and hold an open and free election with total control and oversight given to an international body. 
6. Those in the leadership who planned for, along with those who executed those terrorist plans to be tried for crimes against humanity by the new government. 

Once all that is agreed to then they can have a sit down and negotiate, in Tel Aviv. 

• Update, 12:34 PM: Is The End Near? Top Khamenei Aide Reportedly in Talks with Russia for Possible Escape Ramp – Several Iranian Officials Finalizing Their Own Exit Plans - As Israel continues to batter Iranian military and leadership targets, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is reportedly looking for an escape route out of the country. According to Iran International, the Ayatollah is looking for an off ramp and his sights are on Russia. This is big news if true. What is clear is that so far Iran has not been able to respond to the numerous attacks by the Israeli military. Israel reportedly controls the skies over much of Iran today. Maybe the Ayatollah should run. There are many Iranians who would love to get their hands on that evil tyrant.............
• Israel Ramps Up Targeted Attacks – Hackers Take Down Main Bank Serving Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Money Is Drained from Machines - Customers are reporting widespread outages at Iran’s Bank Sepah withdrawal stations. The terminals are out of money.Many believe the Iranian Revolutionary Guard took the money and left nothing for the people. Iran Novin Party reported: “There is a serious possibility that the bank is facing a liquidity crisis because the IRGC leaders have already withdrawn their assets and fled the country. The body of the system is now facing empty accounts and an uncertain future.”.............

Israeli Attack on Iran Was Inevitable

 It's in for a penny in for a pound time now!

By Rich Kozlovich 

 

All this stuff about Iran is mind boggling, and much of it can be placed at the feet of the three Obama terms and the EU. Iran declared war on the west the minute the Shah left and Khomeini took over, 46 years ago, and have acted in that manner at a practical level ever since. The game playing should have ended long ago when Iran made members of the American embassy hostages, but then Carter was President,not Reagan or Trump.   The minute Reagan was elected the mullahs decided it was a good idea to release them, after 444 days of Carter's incompetent policies of appeasement.  Keep that in mind.

The minute Iran launched all those missiles at Israel, an outright undeclared act of war, that's when the line was crossed, and Israel had every right to retaliate in any way they saw fit.

I admire Trump’s ability to get adversaries to come to the table and make agreements, the Abrahamic Accords as an example. But you cannot make agreements with people who don’t want an agreement. Neither Russia or Ukraine wants the war to end, and most certainly Iran will not give up its desire to destroy Israel and do it with nuclear tipped missiles.

Iran has been found to have been lying about their nuclear program …. imagine that,and finally someone is telling the truth in the 11th hour. Make no mistake about this. The US has the intelligence that confirms all I’ve said, and I’m convinced this had to happen because Iran's domestic and international problems are so massive they fear they’re going to be kicked out of power, making this their last chance to destroy Israel, and they will not pass it up, no matter how suicidal it may be.

Operation ‘Rising Lion' has been launched, and it only took 46 years.  Now five waves of Israeli fighters carried out hundreds of missions across distances thought to be impossible without refueling, but Israel proved the to be false before.  On the first day they dropped over 330 munitions on about 100 targets, including the Natanz nuclear sight, which was just one of many.  The top Iranian military commander for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a number of nuclear experts were killed.  How great the damage was isn't clear, but it's being called superficial, and Iran has launched missiles and drones in response, which in the past has been largely ineffective, and the attacks by Israel continue.  

I really love these Muslim leaders who spout nonsense like Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr who describes this a threat to the entire region and in infringement of Iraqi airspace to get to Iran.  It's interesting you're not seeing the other nations of that region worrying about a threat to them since it's Iran whose been the threat to the region, not Israel. 

It's also interesting how the people of Iran are viewing this attack.  Understand this is an unusual kind of war.  The Israelis are not practicing mass bombing, or targeting the civilian population.  Don't you find it interesting they managed on the very first day to pretty much wipe out the leadership of the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.  They've selected targets that matter, and the Iraqi people are thrilled as the Iranian government has abused their people to the extreme for decades, including murder, rape, false imprisonment, rigged trials, etc., all in order to oppress their people. 

I also have to believe the Iran government is now aware there must be a lot of spies giving information to Israel, up to date information.  Otherwise how could they know where to strike so accurately?

Of course the left, who loves Iranian nukes and hates American guns, blames Trump for all of this, but, they're historical idiots, clueless, offering twisted logic, something at which they excel, but in this case there's one exception, Democrat Senator Fetterman, who wants Israel to wipe out the Iranian leadership and nuclear experts entirely.  Geert Wilders the Dutch hero who understands the danger Islam represents "waxes eloquent on Israel" saying:

I’m proud as a peacock that I support Israel. I’m proud of that. It’s not a disgrace. You’re a disgrace, making well-nigh anti-Semitic statements about a country that’s fighting for its existence.

Because that’s what it’s doing. Israel is fighting an existential battle….

And now I’m telling you, Mr. Timmermans, via you, Mr. Chairman: Israel is fighting our battle…If Jerusalem falls, then Athens, Paris, and Amsterdam are next.

They are fighting our battle. And if our mothers, in the West, can sleep peacefully, it is because the mothers of Israeli soldiers are awake, wondering whether their children will come out of the battle alive.

Rubio says the U.S. is not involved, which is good politics that no one believes, and no one can disprove, but there's a reason why the U.S. evacuated a lot of personnel from embassies around the region days ahead of all this, and is in overall support of their actions, and this is just the beginning.

If Iran falls it would be a good time to bring justice to all the victims of Iranian terror, including their vile actions against their own population.  Hunt down all these murderous thugs, and let them stand trial and explain and justify their murderous actions.  

More historical background and justification on why this was inevitable, here, here, and here, and finally, I think this eight point analysis by Andrea Widburg is excellent, The situation in the Israel-Iran war is kinetic, but we can discern a few things.

Well, It's Started, The Third Lebanon War

By Rich Kozlovich 

Well, is anyone shocked? Third Lebanon War’ Begins Israel Launches Ground Offensive:

The Third Lebanon War has officially begun, according to Israel’s Army Radio, as Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ground forces crossed into Lebanon early Tuesday morning to remove Hezbollah outposts that threaten Israeli communities. The IDF apparently crossed into Lebanon at the “finger” or “panhandle” of Israel’s Galilee region, near the town of Metula, which was Israel’s northernmost town until the capture and annexation of the Golan Heights.

Did they inform the Biden administration?  Given they didn't inform them of their strike that wiped out Hezbollah's leadership, I'm guessing no.  Ole Joe was already ticked off about Israel daring to challenge his demand for a cease fire, and according to Daniel Greenfield, the Biden Admin Preps Post-Election Revenge on Israel, states:

And the administration is taking it in the noble spirit for which it’s known for, that is to say it’s going to follow in the footsteps of the Obama administration (and plenty of the perps are veterans of Hussy) and avenge the outcome on the Jews. (Hey it’s a popular response for thousands of years. So why not?)  Joe Biden claims that his real priority is a moonshot cure, but it seems like the admin’s real priority is to attack Israel.

There's been a lot of talk about boots on the ground and how Israel would be overstretched by attacking the Hezhollah in Lebanon.  And if victorious, how would they hold it?  

 

I remember when this first unfolded there were Lebanese who claimed they would support Israel to the tune of 20,000 fighters.  So, I decided to look to see if there was any truth to this, and that number is inaccurate.  The actual potential runs closer to the tune of 60,000, all of which could be the basis for fighting the battle, and the eventual control of Lebanon, a much more Israel friendly Lebanon.  

But one thing is now clear, Bibi, doesn't care what Joe Biden and his band of misfits think.   Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, and the Democrats, none of whom ever served, loved to snicker at, denigrate, demean, and insult a man who fought in the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur War, was a member of an elite commando unit, and twice wounded.  Well Bibi had his response well planned. 

 

Bibi had a response for Biden and Obama and all the rest of the condescending Dem leadership when he spoke at the United Nations last Friday. He said Israel will not go quietly into the night (and he won’t either). Then he held up two posters, one in each hand; a “blessing” poster and a “curse” poster. This veiled reference to Abraham’s Covenant was a message to the world: better to make Israel a friend than an enemy. In the meantime, practically as Bibi spoke, bombs were falling on Hassan Nasrallah and at least 20 other top Hezb’allah cohorts while they hid in their Beirut bunker headquarters. Nasrallah, chief of Hezb’allah for decades and responsible for the murder of thousands, was no more. Before the world knew exactly what had transpired, Netanyahu was on his way back to Israel. After all, there was a seven-front war to be fought.

 

Biden and the Democrats are still insanely promoting terrorism via their demands for cease fire, which was never brought up until Israel struck back.  Israel is ignoring Ole Joe, because what Bibi wants is called victory. Now, Iran and what's left of their terrorists are scared, and the rest of the world is on notice.  

 

Israel needs to expand this effort beyond it's military, and into Hezbollah's economic picture.  As the Middle East Forum notes: "Israel's strategy to defeat Hezbollah must extend beyond the battlefield to cut off its financial resources", much of it involving drugs and cryptocurrency.  "Sanctions must extend to family members members and associates, and heightened scrutiny is needed in banking sectors of countries like Lebanon, West Africa, and South America"...... "Infiltrating informal money transfer systems like hawala networks is essential"... as this will undermine these groups "without firing a shot".  

  

 

P&D Geopolitics Edition

The Israel/Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran War, the Russo/Ukraine War, and More

By Rich Kozlovich

For years I've been busy explaining to the world what they're doing wrong, and they just refuse listen to the bugman. Imagine that!   Let's start with:

 

The Israel/Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran War.

 

The reality of Islam is unending conflict, within and outside of Islam.  The current open war with Israel is an example.  Iranians are Shiite Muslims as are Hezbollah and Hamas are Sunni Muslims, and they hate each other.  Which is why some claim that explains why no one came to Hamas' support at the initial onslaught of this war, which seems clear they expected.  Who knows, but Muslims operate on a different set of values than the rest of the world, including their dealings with each other.  

 

When others stab their friends in the back, they know that's what they're doing, no matter what excuses and justifications they may offer.  When Muslims stab others in the back, they recognize no moral ambiguity, as in some way they'll claim what their doing is based on the Koran, and they're gaining merit with Allah. 

Israel is now more united behind Netanyahu, but given Israel's political and social structure that can change overnight, but it's clear Israel is fighting on seven fronts.  That's a war of survival, and Israel will have to destroy these groups, and at some point attack Iran, and make clear any nation that harbors and abets these monsters are at war with Israel, and may be attacked.  I find it interesting the media, the Democrats, all leftists, and Iran condemn Israel as "terrorists" for using exploding pagers to take out a lot of terrorists, but these are the same people who danced at the vile disgusting crimes Hamas committed against innocent Israeli civilians, as Daniel Greenfield notes: Rape is Resistance and Beepers are Genocide. 

 

All of a sudden they're decrying the "breakdown of international law", which never seemed to bother them when all these terrorists rained down missiles on Israeli civilians, which actually has gone on for decades. 

 

It doesn't seem to bother them that Iran has declared a war against Israel but they've declared war without officially declaring war, and the UN, that "vile wretched hive of scum and villainy", says nothing about it, making it clear they want Israel destroyed and are now demanding Jews must leave Jerusalem.   Since there's no appeasing them, other than committing suicide, Israel will now openly ignore them, and rightly so, attacking all their adversaries on all fronts, with no holds barred.

 

"U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council Wednesday. "An all-out war must be avoided at all costs. It would surely be an all-out catastrophe."    Okay, and that catastrophe will be for whom?   It's clear these cease fire nitwits know the catastrophe will be for the terrorist movements and Iran.  And that's bad why?

 

Israel has picked up the gauntlet, but they're not going to duel on their adversaries terms, but on their terms, and that will be with the understanding there can be no peace with Islam....ever.  Any Abraham Accord style agreements that may come into being if Trump is elected are mere respites, and Israel should embrace them, all the while undermining any adversaries, and preparing for the next assault.

 

Israel must become less dependent on the US since one of the political parties is an antisemitic ogre. This is a forever war, and it's high time that was emphasized, and state clearly Israel is not the real target. Western civilization is the target, Israel is the canary in the coal mine.  Muslims have been murdering innocent people for almost 1500 years, and it's time we stopped excusing them.

Western Europe is lost.  In Lyon the Muslim population is 30% and now the French are so afraid to offend them they're bending to Sharia law and rules.  Israel is where America has skin in the game, not Europe.  It's my hope if Trump is elected he will stop funding the UN, and that's long over due.  

 

At this point there are only three European nations immune to a Muslim conversion.  Poland, Hungary, and Russia.  Three traditional historical enemies who may have to converge in order to survive the conversion of the rest of Europe.Think about that.  Poland may save Europe again.

 

But Europe is a spent force, and can only survive as Europeans if they abandon the UN, seriously restructure the EU, declare the WEF a criminal organization, and that Islam isn't a religion but a criminal political movement masquerading as a religion, and have mass deportations, and if necessary, revoking citizenship of Muslims.  In short, they will have to do what Spain did after the Reconquista.  That's history, and that history is incontestable.

 

History is everything as the patterns of life play out over and over again, and I've often wondered if any of these highly educated nitwits in leadership roles ever read a history book. As for those who have, like Henry Kissinger, the Tallyrand of the 20th century, did they care?  "Ideology makes smart people stupid."

 

Let's Review the Russo/Ukrainian War. 

 

I read a lot of clabber about the Russo/Ukraine War, and often times I see insane claims Putin didn't have a choice, it was the fault of America, Ukraine, Europe, and it never seems to end the number of people they point their fingers at in order to justify Putin's aggression. 

Let's try and get this right, no matter how many side bars are presented, this falls on Putin!  He chose to attack.  Having said that, while having compassion for the Ukrainian people, I don't care what happens to Ukraine as a nation.

This is a failure of Biden and his energy policies that funded this invasion, the stupidity of European leaders and their energy policies, and the stunning corruption of Ukrainian leadership who failed to proper fund arming themselves instead of funding their own bank accounts.  But it was Putin who chose to make this a shooting war. 

Ukraine's government was and is corrupt, and perhaps if they were allowed to have the election Zelenskyy prevented things might be different. Who knows, but either way, none of this is our fault, nor is it our responsibility.

We're throwing away billions on Ukraine, none of which the Biden administration tracked, nor would they allow it to be tracked, in order to support Europe.  All of which is wasted money as Europe is a doomed spent force, and we no longer have skin in that game, and yet they're quibbling over millions for Israel where we really do have skin in that game. There's where the real enemy of western civilization is in play.

Will Putin use nukes? I put this in a 60/40 "no" category as he has a lot of dissent behind the scenes, and I'm still convinced there's a von Stauffenberg contingent in his military. If he attempts to use nukes, he could be out, and survival is his primary goal now, but he still can't let loose of this insane war HE started. When Caesar fails or appears weak, he's not Caesar much longer.

However, if he does use nukes will there be a European nuclear response? I'm 100 % convinced the answer is no. Does anyone really believe Europe is willing to sacrifice Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, and London in a nuclear exchange over Ukraine?

How will this end? I've been convinced Ukraine can't win simply because they don't have enough boots on the ground. Many have fled, and many resent Zelenskyy and his coterie. But Putin's coterie is so blatantly incompetent this has gone on shockingly long, and what we're seeing is the break out for the wars of the future.  Drones and lasers. 

Putin and Zelenskyy should both hope Trump is elected, as I think he will find a way to resolve this, with no one being happy, which should be the goal. 

Long term consequences? 

Russia is toast as a world shaker.   They can't even manufacture the military hardware they need as they're buying military hardware from Iran and N. Korea.  The EU will collapse, Russia and China will go broke, and the world will be facing what historians call a historical end cycle, which always involved massive economic downturns and violence before a new cycle begins.

Based on history, I'm not optimistic.

Definition Leads to Clarity

Let's take a minute to review terms that are thrown around that actually end up confusing the world about who and what these politicos are, and why they make the decisions that make. 

Left, right, conservatives, liberals, and socialists, all are being used a lot to define characters around the world, and that's especially true of Europe after the recent elections, which has "the left" fearing "the right" is taking over.  Well, that's not exactly the way things are. 

When talking about classical liberals it should be realized they no longer exist, and in fact, Republicans come closest.

Leftists in the late 19th and early 20th century didn't dare call themselves socialists in America because socialism is foundationally atheistic, and that didn't play well in America. So, they called themselves progressives, then liberals, then back to progressives. But now they so deeply entrenched in America's institutions, they're boldly calling themselves socialists, and that justifies their antisemitism, violence, lies, corruption, and what can hardly be called anything less than treason. 

 

Having said all that, it's important to understand conservatism is cultural and the differences in different cultures. Currently, our concern is understanding what it means in America, so we can understand what it means in Europe. Their newly embraced "rightist" views isn't conservatism as we know it, but, is in my opinion a mixed bag of mild socialism and nationalism. They remind me of libertarians. No one knows what they really believe, including libertarians.

Truth be told, the only political party in America that knows what it believes are the Democrats. They know they hate America, Americans, capitalism, and the Constitution.  Which explains why they support terrorists, criminals, illegal migration, high taxes, burdensome regulations, and the murder of the innocent unborn. 

That's the world as I see it, and it ain't pretty.