PROMETHEAN ANTAGONIST

“Can’t we all just get along.” 😂

There’s a civil war going on right now in Uganda…among chimpanzees. No doubt some delusional fool will attribute it to global warming or capitalism. Maybe it’s an expression of something much more basic.

I’m not about to gloss over the horrors of war. War is bad. There, I said it but…

From a more detached perspective we have to realize that everything in the universe, from sub-atomic particles to star clusters exist upon a spectrum of harmony or dissonance with other entities. We can strike two keys on a piano that are next to each other and notice the grating conflict between them or choose more compatible combinations that depict repose, harmony, and peace. A chain of musical events can travel the spectrum of harmony and dissonance just as a pallet of colors blend harmoniously or grate on our senses for their lack of“cooperation.” At the heart of these interactions is relationship. Everything in the universe relates in some way to everything else. A romantic relationship can be long-lasting and relatively calm or turbulent and tenuous from the start. Most relationships are unlikely to be stuck in one mode of interaction that plods along with flat predictability. America and Japan were once at war and are now reliable allies. Prior to 1979, America had a reasonable (peaceful) relationship with the enitiy we call Iran (or Persia). Now…we are at war. Actually we have been at war since 1979. People change. Governments change. Relationships change.

To be sure, humanity at war is an ugly thing. Dissonance void of harmony but, there are reasons. The reasons for going to war can be absurd, groundless, or inevitable. In the modern world, more often than not, ideologies drive conflict along with the usual conflicts over territory, resources, and the desire to conquer or defend against conquerors.

While it’s nice to be among those who renounce war in all its expressions, the real world isn’t always so passive.

In America’s present conflict with the theocracy that has ruled over Iran, there is little room for compromise. The Iranian “side” has made it clear that they will continue to seek nuclear weapons and delivery systems capable of reaching America’s allies and America itself. Of course, several countries have nuclear weapons, including America itself but no one expects France or America to be high risk of using such weapons offensively. (The “argument” that “America is the only country that actually used them” is stupid out of context). The government of Iran, in addition to funding and fermenting terror violence across many countries, has made it clear that, once they acquire nuclear weapons, they intend to use them. After having their entire air force, much of their navy, and members of their leadership eliminated, they still demand the “right” to aggressively pursue nuclear weapons -- to use definitivly.

America (and several of its allies) say “No.” An unresolvable conflict of goals. One side will get its way and it will get its way through…war. A lot of what could have dragged on for years with massive casualties has transpired within weeks (and, hopefully, not much longer). This is not Iraq or Afghanistan in spite of what talking heads imply.

An unfortunate caveat to the current conflict is…Donald Trump and the response to him by weak, pathetic, and unreliable leftists within NATO and America itself. For decades, politicians of both parties in America have expressed the need to resolve the Iran problem. Baring a change in the Iranian givernment, it was beyond inevitable that war on some level would occur. Obama’s method was to give the Islamo-fascist regime billions of dollars and hope they’d be nice. Trump’s method has been to acknowledge the inevitability of the situation and to take advantage of a combination of current circumstances and act decisively.

There are lots of Americans, even among prominent former allies of the president that are fully opposed to action at this time (most of them, in times past, spoke of the need to act). Reasonable disagreement can ponder the timing or necessity of war with Iran but, like it or not, the start button has been pushed. Now, it’s a matter of support or subversion. The nonsense of calling for an endless “ceasefire” is ridiculous. Under UN dictates we still haven’t officially ended the Korean War (a multi-decade “ceasefire”). The loser always wants a ceasefire. Institutions like the UN, NATO, and international partisan “journalism” are absolutely useless in the current circumstance.

News reports frame current disagreements as being from country to country. In cases like Spain, France, and the UK, it’s not so much their country’s lack of cooperation as it is typical socialist leaders that hate Donald Trump. Spain’s lack of assistance (very limited assistance requested, I might add) is little different from the lack of support from prominent American Democrats.

Like all martial conflict, this one will come to a conclusion. Either resolution will be delayed, allowing Iran to eventually get nuclear weapons with the almost certain conclusion that they will use them or, America and Trump will be successful (the faster the better) and the interplay of harmony and dissonance will move to other parts of the globe.

We still have Ukraine and the chimpanzee civil war in Uganda.

# posted by Promethean Antagonist @ 6:22 PM