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It will derange your thinking, if you give ear to it. Admiral Rob Bauer, the morally blind head of the NATO military committee, said publicly that NATO has changed. It is no longer the defense organization that its charter defines it to be. It has become a first-strike force. “It is more competent," he says, "not to wait, but to hit launchers in Russia in case Russia attacks us. A combination of precision strikes is needed that will disable the systems that are used to attack us, and we must strike first.”
He has listened to slander about a fictional Putin with a finger on the red button. Bauer is now so immoral he will violate the covenants of the NATO agreements. He is now controlled by fear that Putin will suddenly become aggressive when Putin has never gone on the defensive for over twenty years. Bauer is so unstable that he actually believes a first strike can blow up all the trucks which carry Putin's hypersonic missiles. NATO isn't able to find or track even one of those camouflaged trucks. Therefore the new NATO strategy is this: attack Russia with Ukraine, and when Russia defends herself, then "shotgun" nuclear weapons in the general direction of Moscow, hoping you might hit something before it is launched Westward.
The narrow strait is the most important chokepoint for the world's oil supply. Some 21 million barrels — or $1.2 billion worth of oil — pass through the strait every day.
Will a closed Strait hurt Iran? In terms of international oil sales, yes, but in terms of daily life, no. Iran pumps 3.5 million barrels of crude oil per day. The situation at this hour:
Most people hear “Hormuz” and think gas prices.
That’s part of it. But it’s bigger. It’s a central artery for global trade, and we talked about how disruptions hit second-order systems fast, including inputs tied to food production (field work and fertilizers), trucking, and downstream shocks in everything from shipping insurance to medicine, medical supplies, medical treatments and regional stability.
This is why the “we’re energy independent so it doesn’t matter” line is naive. In a globally priced commodity world, you don’t get to opt out.
Former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali comes to Christ and discovers the supernatural Christian heritage of West, and how worldly families destroyed it. She is now married and living in the US.
"I like Os Guinness’s analogy of the cut flower civilization. I find it very vivid in regard to non-Christian conservative parents. Conservative non-Christian families are cutting themselves off from our foundational roots.
Let’s think about what happens to a plant when the roots die. What happens when you pick flowers and put them in a vase? Obviously, the flowers wither. And if you cut conservative morals off from Christianity, they fade.
"This decline is exactly what we have seen in the West over the last century and a half. Some people say the decay dates back to the Enlightenment. It’s a gradual fading that goes on and on. My fear is that we have landed in a place of moral wilderness.
"For the West to restore itself, it has to rediscover and revive its biblical roots. I insist that the biblical...
