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First some history on aggressive cultural revolution:
"Mao used identity politics. He created 10 identities in China, five he labeled red for communist, and five he labeled black for fascist. And he categorized people into these identity categories. What they are doesn't really matter. They were things like landlord and rich farmer and things like 'this right winger is a bad category in and of itself.' All of them bad, 'bad influences.' That's another one: 'bad influences.'
You could be a bad influence for just thinking the wrong thing or saying the wrong thing at any time or because the government decides it doesn't like you. These are the bad categories. And if you are in a bad category, very importantly, your children [are in] a bad category by default. So they create a social pressure for your children to identify as revolutionaries. At which point they get a red identity, a communist identity, a good identity and they get rewarded for it.
And this is how the youth led the revolution in ...
...there was a sober silence in the room. Samuel Adams, a key figure in the American Revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, spoke up to say,
“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”
Colonel Douglas MacGregor predicts a continuation of the Iran war soon, once all sides have replenished missile stocks.
"Washington’s political class manifests much less regard for the long-term strategic interests of its own citizens—their security and prosperity. As a result, Washington pays an exorbitant price in reputation and treasure for policies that confront Palestinians with the choice of death or expulsion from their homelands.
"Assumptions of tacit acceptance or rapid capitulation are implicit and dangerous.
[The Muslims will not 'do a deal.']
"When Hitler was briefed on the expected Soviet reaction to Operation Barbarossa, Major General Ernst Koestring, a Prussian officer fluent in Russian from a family that had lived in Moscow since the reign of Catherine the Great, advised: “Initially, German forces will advance rapidly. The various peoples on the Soviet periphery will likely welcome the German forces. Resistance will be weak. But when the Germans advance into ...
