the holy war in Iran
If you’ve been anywhere other than underneath a rock, we’re currently at war1 with Iran.
There were early reports2 that some military leadership has started calling it a holy war, a war for the end times. That should worry you a bit. Generally speaking, you don’t want your military leadership to start talking about holy wars. Among other issues, it has a tendency to “scare the hoes” somewhat. Troops want to hear that they’re going to take down the bad guys, stop the people killing protesters, free the children, bring democracy to the middle east, whatever truth or half truth or outright lie they have to tell themselves to justify dropping enough ordinance on a country they couldn’t find on a map 3 years ago to fund a couple inner city school systems for a few years.
So when military leadership starts talking about a holy war, the end times, the rapture, etc., some eyebrows go up. It takes a good bit to get soldiers to report suspicious, worrying or illegal behavior in their commanders, so for there to be over 100 reports across 30 locations that commanders are talking about the rapture, you know it’s probably more widespread than that.
And then Mike Johnson opened his mouth about Iran’s “misguided religion” and you start to wonder if there’s a pattern.
Well, dear reader, there is.
Following are links to articles I’ve written, which themselves link to articles I’ve written or others have written, detailing the various evangelical death cults that have now unfortunately gripped the reigns of power in our country, starting with Pete Hegseth.
Pete Hegseth - The Tatted Crusader with a Room Temp IQ and a Drinking Problem
Pete Hegseth, at the time of writing, is the Secretary of Defense/War over the Department of Defense/War. In the first sentence there, you’ll notice things are complicated (the Department of Defense, arguably, has not been formally renamed as that requires a Congressional vote, but that doesn’t actually matter and we’re all just rolling with it) and Pete’s story continues to be complicated. My whole reasoning for starting to break out these articles is that Pete’s story started getting long.
You can read his story here.
Footnotes
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Maybe we’ve always been at war? “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia” but in real life or maybe “We’ve never been at war with Eastasia” but in real life. Regardless, Orwell would be proud. ↩