which, the combined Roman/Orthobro churches of the age ( 4th century or 300s AD ) decided to defend the privileges of the existing clergy no matter how badly they had contravened their responsibilities rather than obey the Scripture. and that is part of the heritage of the Orthobros just as much as it is part of the Romans.

i will also note that pretty much the only thing we “know” about the Donatists, is what is reported to us by the RCC. and there’s PLENTY that we know that the RCC is lying about. within the last couple of years, a Catholic openly stated that Protestants were frothing at the mouth to kill Catholics. how so? didn’t Protestant sects run the US for the first +century, and we never did any such thing?

whatever, reality has little to do with the pronouncements of the RCC, such as the Immaculate Conception ( Mary being born sinless ), which is not believed by hardly any other denominations and certainly not by the denominations which PREDATE the Roman Church, such as the Copts and Oriental churches and many of the Orthodox churches. even the RCC did NOT promulgate the Immaculate Conception ( of Mary ) until the mid-1850s.

as i understand it, Iran has mostly been hitting Arab countries which host US mil bases. as well, they’ve often been hitting the bases and US C&C facilities.

balanced against this, you have Israel attacking everybody they can reach while in the middle of their openly acclaimed goal of genociding the Palestinians.

the other Arab countries have no particular reason to like the consequences they’re suffering. but they have to admit that Iran is pretty much the only major muslim nation that is constructively doing something about the Palestinian issue. and they likewise must admit Iran is fully justified at this point in waging war against the Epstein Alliance in any way they see fit.

The short answer is: no, because Arabs.

The somewhat longer answer is:

No, because the Gulf Arab states are quite weak militarily, and also have significant internal fractures and divisions. This comes from being Arab. The best expression of the Arab mindset comes from that old saying, “me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my tribe; my tribe against the world”, or words to that effect. The Arab mentality stops at the level of tribe. They cannot perceive of allegiances beyond this.

On top of this, you have the classic Sunni-Shi’a divide within the GCC countries. Most Arab countries have significant Shi’ite minorities, including Bahrain – which is basically an island connected to Saudi Arabia – and Iraq. The Sunni-Shi’ite divide goes back some 1,400 years, and the Shi’ites will not side with Sunnis who wage war against the holiest sites in their religion.

That all helps explain why the Qataris and the Saudis cannot stand each other; why the Emiratis have geopolitical interests against the Saudis; why the Kuwaitis – who used to be part of Iraq – do not want to get entangled with any of it; and why the Iraqis and Bahrainis, who have substantial Shi’a majorities, will not intervene.

And of course, none of them amounts to a puddle of piss in military terms, except the Saudis, and they depend entirely on American weaponry. As we have seen, that weaponry can do a great job of slaughtering civilians, but is of quite limited value against a competent military.

Instead of uniting the GCC against them, the Iranians have ripped away the illusion of the American defence shield, and have shown the GCC how fragile their economies really are. Just for the OnlyFans Arab Emirates, recovering their reputation as a safe place to make tax-free money, will take the OnlySheikhs years – if they can ever do it.

I say this as an American who thinks this whole venture was an unbelievably stupid idea. At the very least they could have absorbed the lessons of the 404 war and the new 5GW reality before kicking this off.

i’ve just started reading up on the King David Hotel … and damn, does it demonstrate that every single Israeli prime minister has been a lying genocidal retard. even on the Wiki article, it just gets stupider and more absurd on an almost sentence by sentence basis. and that’s as whitewashed as they can make it.

and the Israelis did this to their British allies who were the other half of the decades long conspiracy ( going back to the Balfour Declaration in WW1 ) to steal Palestine and give it to the Jews.

this is how Jews treat their gentile “friends”.

We do ourselves a disservice when we refer to Russians and bucket-headed morons that can’t build a washing machine, Chinese as crafty copycats that can’t design anything for themselves, and Iranians as ignorant backwards goat humpers. These cultures are thousands of years older than us, and aren’t stupid.

I don’t see it as being a fan-boi by simply recognizing how the field is striped.

Do you think that Iran didn’t plan out this very scenario when they were attacked last year? Do you think China and Russia didn’t either? It’s not being enamored to recognize this happened. Our own military has war-gamed this for years, and nearly every model predicted this goat rodeo.

It was a dumb move that defies logic and sense.

I think the Russians had the best description for us – an unreliable partner. I think that’s generous. The real winners here will be China and Russia. Like them or not, they are nothing if not consistent. Why would anyone negotiate with the US? We clearly lie and can’t keep a deal. I can see where most the world would simply not bother with the US any longer. Russia and China would be a safer bet, especially for those in that hemisphere.

Trump will get hammered in the mid-terms. If the dems get into power like they did with Biden, it’s all over. They are incapable and unwilling to fix the damage we’re causing to ourselves now. Going to be some dark years. It is, however, the crisis phase of a fourth turning, with the peak yet to come. We are in the last five years of the turning.

One thing for sure, I don’t want my kids or grandkids to be sacrificed for Israel’s and the Gulf States interests. You can’t shrug your shoulders and say “Who cares, we get very little through the straights of Hormuz. So what” and then make any argument for us being over in that region whatsoever.

The best explanation for Trump doing this, as well as Venezuela and severing Europe from Russian energy, is to save the petrodollar. That actually makes sense. Won’t happen. But it makes sense. Losing that is an existential crisis to these politicians and how they run the US.

kind of weird how you’re fine with ISRAEL murdering Christians in Beirut. don’t now pretend that you care about Christians in the middle East / North Africa, not after 20 years of American foreign policy ( in service to Israel ) having been spent decimating the oldest Churches in Christendom.

yes, the Orientalist and Orthodox Churches of the Levant were formed BEFORE the Church of Rome.