One man’s ‘terrorist’ is another man’s ’freedom fighter’. Here in Ireland we have had plenty of experience in making that distinction. The major terrorists in Palestine are its Jewish occupiers. The status of being a state doesn’t lend immunity to their behaviour, particularly one that was imposed illicitly by the terrorist state that we Irish fought for centuries. Trump is not the Antichrist, but he’s doing his best to demonstrate what this being will say and do. He seemed to do many good things in his first term. He appointed pro-life judges to the Supreme Court; now he’s promoting IVF. He resisted the onslaught of the perverts; now, he has a Treasury Secretary who claims to be ‘married’ to another man. He started no wars; now he has continued the futile Ukrainian war and started wars in Venezuela, Iran and Lebanon and has threatened more on Cuba, Greenland and even Canada. Many people who voted for him feel completely betrayed. I am not a US citizen, but I am appalled at his about-faces. I perceive him as one of the most evil people I’ve seen on the international stage, a great liar and murderer. A war criminal of the highest order. A man without a word.
I will give you Gaza and Iran. Venezuela was not and is not a war. The people of Venezuela are grateful the US stepped in. Chances are that Cuba won't be a war either and the people will be grateful. Once Iran is settled I am sure the people in general will be better of than under the current regime. Ukraine I am disappointed about, but who really knows what's going on there. Lebanon is an extention of Iran/Gaza. Wanting to take Canada and Greenland is just politics. The EU leadership has been absolutely atrocious. But for what ever reason many continue to double down on Trump. I recently heard 50 million Muslims now reside in the EU. This is the biggest threat to Europe IMO and the worst part is that they are consuming all the social program funds while contributing the most to crime per capita. Promoting IVF isn't good, but it is a lot better than promoting abortion, which is what the Democrats are all about. Thankfully there is still free speech and the debate continues. So we need to pray. The way to look at Trump is that he is a builder. He doesn't look at economics in terms of GDP but tangible growth. Which is why we will see so much growth happening in the Western hemisphere. Like it or not that is his mindset. The US is doing the work that Europe should be doing in the middle east IMO. Not to mention how the EU had access to cheap oil from Russia and cheap nuclear energy. It's like the EU wants to suffer. IE... The Bridger pipeline has recently been approved in the US allowing for up to a million extra barrels of crude to flow down from Canada. Better securing US energy. News like this is happening every day in America. Meanwhile everyone in Europe has to pay crazy amounts for fuel.
I get the sense that Europe feels like the US is responsible for its general weakness. Even though the EU blunders at every possible opportunity to the effect of inflicting maximum damage on itself. If the EU made mutually a beneficial peace deal with Russia, there is a good likelihood the war in Ukraine never would have happened, having saved millions of lives from death and permanent injury. Europe might have been stronger for it and have been able to quelch what is going on in the middle east currently. Instead the growth in GDP in the EU the last quarter was 0.1%. The quarter before that was 0.2%. Absolutely abysmal. Trump is killing several birds with one stone in this Iranian war. He is slowing/stopping funding to terrorists. He is dismantling a terrorist regime and freeing the people, many of whom are Christians. He is stabilizing the middle east in doing so, possibly further stopping the outflow of millions more migrants to Europe. He also is doing it with the support/compliance of the nations around him. Said terrorist regime will never have a nuclear bomb. Finally he will take the oil. This could be Europe instead of the US. In fact it should be Europe instead of the US.
With Trump I think of his first term when he did some truly good prolife things and was really persecuted by the dems at every turn. This time around he has manifested some disturbing behaviors. Some seemingly grandiose ideas. But I am also aware the media (mouthpiece for the dems) has kept drumming the same narrative. Cheering when it looked like Iran was "winning" and quite honestly misrepresenting the facts. We are not getting the whole story. I pray for DJT to do God's Will. That is my responsibility as a Catholic citizen. I am backing off from railing against him. My parish priest ( from Nigeria) pointed out the terrible suffering Iran has caused other countries by underwriting the worst fanaticism. He says we dont have the full picture. Our job is to pray for our leaders. Not to engage in rash judgement. I take this very much to heart.
Thankyou PF. I believe you are tuned to the Holy Spirit. I am experiencing the same nudges when praying. Being convicted in my soul of having fallen into rash judgement. I mean to try harder to simply pray and let God sort it out I think it is always helpful to remember Jesus died for all. And desires all to come to knowledge of the truth. When I examine my own conscience I am so aware that if it were not for God's grace I would have fallen farther and faster than those I call out.
Keep on praying then because I think it's working. I had my doubts about Trump too, but currently he is doing an amazing job. If he keeps this up, you are going to see Western hemisphere flourish. There are so many positive things happening in the US and Latin America currently it is incredible.
I do the same. I pray for all leaders and Church daily. I can do nothing about any of it and I get such negative vibes from it.
I think almost no one doubts that Trump's first term was one of the best American administrations for the pro-life cause and for Christians' religious freedom. However, the person undermining the entire legacy of Trump 1.0 is Trump 2.0 himself. If his threats to invade Greenland were ever carried out, the world could face the risk of a global war against America's own NATO allies, which would also create an opening for a Russian invasion of the continent. In fact, I doubt that, if he were truly committed to winning a world war, he would be concerned with defending the pro-life cause at all, since that would be somewhat contradictory. Just weeks after the start of the Gulf conflict, he threatened to wipe out Iranian civilization in a single night. I do not believe there is any room for a surgical intervention against the ayatollahs under those terms, nor any realistic way to distinguish between supporters of the regime and its opponents. Just as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima did not distinguish between those devoted to the Japanese emperor and those devoted to Christ. The difference between members of this forum and Trump, when both rely on their own judgment, is that Trump possesses a military arsenal, including nuclear weapons, with which to act on it.
He is losing the war in the Middle East. It is Iran who controls the straights of Hormuz. The American empire can only succeed if it controls the sea lanes. As it stands Iran has the upper hand.
We’re getting all these Muslims as a result of being displaced from your wars in the Middle East, but seemingly you’re ’all right Jack’ because you’ll get cheap oil from Canada, so all’s right with the world, then?
This is exactly what I am talking about. Europe took in as many migrants as possible without turning any away. Being sure to give them as many benefits as possible. Not holding them to account for anything they do. And! It is all the fault of the US apparently.
Are you saying that, because one supports your country one is wrong just because some disapprove of the governing regime? It was evil for that Mason Truman to bomb the civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, regardless of whether there was a Christian among them or not. Christ never advocated massacring civilians. The Church has always condemned the attacking of non-combatants. It has nothing to do with whether they support any particular regime. The point about these two cities being inhabited by so many Catholics related to whatever agenda Truman’s Freemasonry dictated, but the bombings were inexcusably evil actions regardless of this. The deliberate ‘nuking’ of civilians is a demonic act.
irrelevant to my point. The straights of Hormuz were open & flowing before the war. They are now shut & controlled by Iran. Trump miscalculated he has lost out and Iran hold the ace of spades controlling the straights. Are you aware of how strategically important the straights are? U.S. President Donald Trump has three options: to continue the blockade of Iran and, in consequence, the blockade of the Strait; to launch a new bombing campaign against Iran; to declare victory and order his military leave the Gulf. Either way he is in a much weaker position than he was before the war. And if the straights remain closed for a while longer you will soon see 5 dollar for a gallon of gas in the USA.
Yes, it mostly is. The United States is the successor of Britain as the most evil Empire the world has yet known. Native Americans-slaughtered. Philipinos-slaughtered. Japanese civilians-millions fire-bombed, then nuked (they left the Germans to the British, who were always the experts at slaughtering civilians). North Koreans-25% of their civilians…slaughtered. Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia-3 million civilians slaughtered. In the multiple West Asian wars, who knows how many have died? Without the US, there would have been a lot less wars, that’s for sure and the numbers of deaths have only been surpassed by the Communists, a great portion of who were mostly your greatest allies, but you politely call ‘Israelis’, now. And, there’s more. Countries like Ireland, Italy and Spain were traditionally Catholic until ‘Judeo-Christian’ American ‘culture’ arrived via television, music and all the other dominant media sources, bringing feminism, pornography, Mammon and all the rest. So, please kindly stop blowing your American ‘democratic’ trumpet in my face. I suggest you have a read of Pope Leo XIII’s prophetic pronouncements on America’s pathetic self-proclaimed ‘exceptionalism’. To be frank, my original enthusiasm for Donald Trump was based on the assumption that he was an isolationist and therefore it would lead to the US leaving the rest of us alone. No such luck.
Frankly, I didn't understand your question in the first paragraph of your text; perhaps there's a language barrier here. But I can make it clear that I used the example to illustrate that, once the nuclear option is on the table, there is no longer any distinction between supporters of a regime and those who oppose it. During the first days of the uprising in Iran, which led to the government's brutal repression, Trump signaled, "We are with you—don't give up." Yet weeks later, he threatened to annihilate Iranian civilization, setting aside the option of a surgical intervention aimed solely at toppling the Iranian dictatorship, as he did in Venezuela. It is somewhat similar to Putin, who claimed he was protecting ethnic Russian minorities in Ukraine and fighting Nazis when he attacked the country, only to later threaten Ukrainians in 2023 with the deployment of nuclear weapons in the Russian vassal state of Belarus. Nuclear blackmail truly is something demonic.
How many Americans died in WWII saving Europe from itself. How many inventions does Europe enjoy which were invented in the US. How many lives have American inventions saved. You can try to make the world out to be a victim of the US, but it's absurd. As horrible as the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, both have entirely been rebuilt. Japan is an amazing nation which is smart enough not to allow unmitigated migration. Keep blaming America for Europe's self destructive tendencies and see how it works out. Europe has all the potential in the world to be great and still chooses to destroy itself.
