Christianity Oasis Forum

[TrueAndMagneticNorth]

Hello All,

Today I link you to an article from Newsweek, titled, 'Ukraine war maps reveal Russian advances toward critical city of Pokrovsk'.

It's from a mainstream source, but nonetheless paints a rather balanced picture of the current status of the war on the ground.

As pointed out in the piece, Russian forces are gathering momentum in their offensive operations in Eastern Ukraine, particularly as they march on and around the regional city of Pokrovsk (population about 60,000).

However, as also mentioned in the report, the NATO/Ukrainian invasion of the Russian border area towards Kursk (featuring not only Ukrainian personnel but also large numbers of Western mercenaries) continues to present significant problems to the Russian side.

For specific details, click on the link below:

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-russie ... sk-1944070

[TrueAndMagneticNorth]

Hi again,

Today I link you to a good article from CNN (!). Yes, CNN is a globalist outlet controlled by the intel agencies but somehow- for whatever inexplicable reason- even a highly dubious source like CNN can occasionally put out a good report.

It's a brand new piece, titled, 'Outgunned and outnumbered, Ukraine's military is struggling with low morale and desertion'.

You'll need a good 10-15 mins to get through it, but it's worth the effort. Rather than sterile battlefield reports and statistics, you get grounded, personalised accounts from Ukrainian personnel about the misery and apparent hopelessness of their war-of-attrition against a much bigger neighbour.

CNN- so often a leading propaganda outlet promulgating a narrative in which Ukraine is kicking Russian butt and the Ukrainian populace remains highly buoyant and bullish in their fight against Russia- has this time opted for an honest, sobering account of the situation.

The report is linked below:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.co ... n-intl-cmd

[TrueAndMagneticNorth]

Hi again,

Really sobering developments re: the Ukraine War. Thinking people have long been concerned that Western globalists/Deep state/Military-industrial complex elements would continue to escalate and provoke what is essentially a conventional regional war (NATO-Ukraine v Russia) and turn it into a civilization-endangering conflict possibly involving nuclear weapons.

Recently, as you may have heard, the US regime and some of its minion vassals (UK, Canada, etc) have begun to talk loudly about their wishes to fire long-range missiles into Russia from Ukrainian territory.

To be sure, regardless of denials or spin, these weapons systems could not be deployed without direct involvement of NATO personnel.

Putin- it's completely irrelevant if you love, loathe or just don't care about him- has said that this would amount to open warfare between NATO and Russia, and Russia would respond accordingly.

The response from Western/globalist politicians and media has been to dismiss and/or ignore and/or spin Putin's statement.

Just to spell it out- it doesn't matter how bad Putin is or how well Western politicians and media can lie and spin: What DOES matter is that if the US/Russia tensions are not de-escalated in timely fashion, the ultimate destination is a nuclear exchange which could kill everything on Earth.

This psychotic escalation is being initiated amidst the backdrop of the coming US election, and this is likely not a coincidence.

To be sure, Bible prophecy does appear to tell us that weapons of mass destruction will wreak havoc on the Earth in the end times, but that Jesus will return just before all life is literally extinguished.

It is not a given that there has to be a nuclear exchange within the context of the Ukraine War, but the delusional, evil, sick nature of the Western establishment- and obvious Russian willingness to use nuclear weapons if the West goes too far- means that we're in very, very dangerous territory.

For a fresh article on all of this (including more details and angles that I could care to bring up in this post), click the link below:

https://asiatimes.com/2024/09/biden-nat ... on-russia/

[TrueAndMagneticNorth]

Hello Everyone,

You would have heard about escalating violence in the Middle-East of late, particularly in Lebanon. There was the mass-pager explosion incident a couple of weeks ago. If you’re not familiar with this, Hezbollah operatives had decided to exchange phone communications for pagers, which they’d ordered to be specially made in Taiwan, if I’m not mistaken. However, preliminary stages of assembly were to be carried out somewhere in eastern Europe.

The pagers exploded en masse in Lebanon, and had obviously been hacked/rigged, etc, by Israeli operatives. Many of them detonated in pockets, in hands, and generally very close proximity to their owners. At last count, up to a couple of dozen people, including several children, were killed and several thousand injured, with fingers blown off and even permanent blindness among some of the injuries suffered.

Israel has since bombarded southern Lebanon and killed many hundreds, including dozens of children and other non-combatants. Hezbollah has tried to retaliate, but has so far been either very restrained or- as I suspect to be the case- very toothless to do much in response at this point. I suspect Hezbollah would become far more able to inflict damage in the case of an Israeli invasion, which is being talked about as a real possibility.

You probably already have your own opinions on all of this, and are not going to be swayed by the musings of an online stranger like myself. But I’ll state my views again anyway, and am sure that I can back up my views with evidence.

In short, there are no good guy actors in the Middle-East: Just many innocent victims. Hamas committed mass murder against Israel on October 7th last year, and Israel has been doing it back ever since. The difference is that Israel has the means to do it on a more industrial scale, and has not held back in doing exactly this- firstly in Gaza, now in southern Lebanon. Netanyahu, the leader of Israel, is an evil psychotic. But there are also evil psychotics among Israel’s enemies. No doubt.

As stated, Israel has the means to act out its murderous desires on a more ongoing, high-level scale. Both sides have committed rapes against people from the other side, and both sides have many people who take pleasure in the suffering of those from the other side. Both sides not only couldn’t care less about killing civilians on the other side, but often do it on purpose. Both sides do this.

If you’re going to tell me that one side is morally better than the other, I will have plenty of evidence (including Bible verses) to refute your claim. But if you still want to believe it, I don’t begrudge you this and respect your right to have your own opinion. At the end of the day, we are all allowed to be wrong once in a while, as long as we truly have the blood of Christ to cover over our sins.

All of this aside, I shift over to the Ukraine theatre. The globalists/NATO continue to poke, prod, provoke and see what they can get away with in their war against Russia (and, to be fair, Russia’s war against Ukraine). As you would probably be aware, the globalists continue to flirt with the idea of firing long-range missiles into Russia from the territory of their Ukrainian proxies. Putin has already said he will consider this as a NATO declaration of war against Russia.

Very, very dangerous regardless of what one may think of Putin. On the ground, the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk has apparently stalled. But battles there continue and I think it will take quite a while before they are expelled from Russian territory. In eastern Ukraine, Russian forces continue to attrite Ukrainian forces (and vice versa, to be fair) and make steady gains. They continue to tighten the noose around the strategic regional city of Pokrovsk.

Russian forces are already reportedly closing in on the town of Vuhledar. This town had a pre-war population of about 15,000. It doesn’t sound significant, but has been scene of some failed Russian attacks since the start of the war which resulted in large losses of personnel, vehicles and equipment (in some cases with whole columns reportedly getting wiped out). Now, though, with different circumstances and tactics the Russians have gotten to the point where it is largely surrounded and could fall within a couple of weeks.

The last point I want to make about this is to share a little observation I’ve made regarding the way propaganda is done, in this case Western propaganda. I have noticed the same model used in previous battles such as Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and now Vuhledar. The model of propaganda goes like this:

Initial coverage and reports paint a picture of impregnability at places like Bakhmut and Avdiivka. They are fortresses. The Ukrainian forces there are kicking butt, and the Russians are getting their butts kicked. But as the time moves on, the narratives evolve into one in which the fighting is suddenly challenging or difficult. Yes, according to the propaganda, the Ukrainians are suffering low casualties and inflicting colossal losses on the Russians, but it isn’t easy nonetheless.

Over time, this narrative evolves into one in which the idea of a pyrrhic victory for the Russians is now entertained, i.e. they’re moving in but at the cost of ‘staggering losses’. And because the Ukrainians are so humanitarian and care so much about their own soldiers, so we’re told, they start to pull out. Then a few reports start to get squeezed out into the public domain, claiming that the place that the Russians are about to capture is not ‘operationally significant’ anyway. It wasn’t worth all their effort and losses, etc, and they can have it.

It's like a spoilt child who’s losing a game of checkers, so he/she flips the board over and sends the pieces flying. The whole thing is very stage-managed by the intel agencies who run the mainstream media. Exactly such a dispatch (that Vuhledar is not ‘operationally significant’) was put out by the ISW yesterday, which is a globalist/neocon source often quoted by the establishment media.

If the Bakhmut and Avdiivka examples are anything to go by (not to mention Mariupol much earlier in the war), the government/media/military complex is preparing to get ahead of the loss of this town by managing the narrative. There’s no way to make it look pretty, but it can certainly be managed. After the likely fall of Vuhledar, there will probably be an information vacuum for a couple of days.

The Russians will say they have taken the town, while Ukraine/NATO will say that the town hasn’t fallen yet. Eventually, regardless of the disastrous nature of what has just transpired, Ukraine/NATO/mainstream media will claim that an orderly withdrawal was carried out to preserve the lives of Ukrainian personnel.

Yet- this is the strange part- amidst the generally synchronized propaganda narrative, there will still be a few good honest reports that somehow get out (even the odd one from mainstream media) which will outline the chaotic nature of the final days before the town/city was lost.

Once you’ve studied the nature of the propaganda enough, it becomes quite easy to understand the M.O. of globalist/Western disinformation. I don’t claim to know everything about it- my mind is finite and one can’t know everything that goes on behind closed doors- but you can certainly see the patterns.

For a little wrap-up on the latest developments around Vuhledar, click the link below:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ru ... 024-09-25/

[TrueAndMagneticNorth]

Hi to all,

A fair bit to talk about today. Firstly, Russia finally took the town of Vuhledar, which I believe was mentioned in the previous post. It took a lot of blood, destroyed equipment and several badly failed attempts over the previous two-and-a-half years before they could finally take it.

They are also continuing to make incremental gains across the Donbass area, and are moving in on towns such as Toretsk (spelling cany vary, population about 30,000) and Pokrovsk (over 50,000 people). Of course, many of the inhabitants are long-gone before the invading forces arrive.

Today, though, I wish to focus on the Middle-East crisis, and Israel in particular. You would’ve heard about the rigged pagers and walkie-talkies, which simultaneously detonated in Lebanon (twice over two or so days). Israeli intel had evidently intercepted a Hezbollah order for these communication devices, somehow rigged them, let them be delivered/distributed and then ultimately detonated them.

Overall, several dozen people including women and children were killed, with several thousand casualties. Several hundred people either lost one or two eyes, or fingers/hands. Many, but by no means all of these victims were Hezbollah.

You would’ve also heard that Israel has assassinated Hezbollah’s leader as well as many of its other leadership figures. This has been done via use of Israel’s superior airpower, with the Lebanese army staying on the sidelines as Hezbollah and Israel fight it out, scores of Lebanese civilians dead and wounded in the bombing already.

To be honest, Hezbollah is copping a hammering and I am surprised at how easily they have taken it. To be sure, they are waging a guerilla resistance on the ground (against Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon) and continue to fire rockets into Israel, but many (including myself) had evidently overestimated the strategic deterrent element of Hezbollah’s arsenal and capabilities.

Israel has already lost several dozen soldiers in the invasion of Lebanon, many more wounded, but are either very slow to admit it or are actively covering it up for whatever reason. They have admitted to about a dozen fatalities thus far, but all armies like to play down their own losses and overstate those of their enemy. Hezbollah doesn’t tend to be any more transparent with its own losses.

There are persistent rumours that the leader of Hezbollah (Nasrallah), at the time of his assassination in Beirut, was convening with other senior Hezbollah figures to discuss a ceasefire proposal forwarded by Western political figures. But Netanyahu, via telephone from New York, authorized Nasrallah’s assassination (and that of anyone in his vicinity) there and then. Dozens of powerful bombs, including bunker busters, were dropped on the location where he was known to be.

Whether or not Hezbollah were really discussing the possibility of a ceasefire is unclear, so take it with a grain of salt. What is clear, however, is that Netanyahu is an evil psychopath who has a lot in common with the evil, sick elements who ordered the Hamas terror attack on Israel last year (the October 7th atrocity last year which kicked off the latest round of bloodletting).

There IS absolute moral equivalence between Israel and its enemies. And if we put bias and emotion aside, it’s very easy to prove. In the case of Netanyahu, we clearly have an individual who’d calmly and willingly oversee countless thousands of deaths (Israeli or non-Israeli, doesn’t matter) to bolster his own political ambitions.

Does this make him worse than the leaders of Israel’s enemies? No. It makes him the same as them. Both sides would like to annihilate each other, and both sides use terror against each other whenever they can. The only difference is that Israel currently has the means to do it more often and on a more industrial scale. That’s really the only difference.

Neither Israel nor its enemies are Christian. This is a fact which many people, particularly many Christians, ignore. We all know about the evil acts of Hamas. What they did on October 7th was ISIS-level evil. No question. While not on the same scale, Hezbollah has also carried out evil acts, particularly indiscriminate rocket fire into northern Israel which has killed, at the very least, dozens of civilians over time. Iran is also evil for overseeing this, among other things.

But here’s the flip side of the coin, and it may be uncomfortable reading for some Christians: Israel is just as evil as its enemies but because it has more sophistication and technology at its disposal, it has far more blood on its hands than its enemies do. To be more specific; Israel has the blood of far more innocent people on its hands than its enemies do. And this is ON PURPOSE.

It has already killed hundreds, perhaps even in the low thousands of Lebanese civilians (in addition to several hundred Hezbollah combatants/figures) in recent attacks. It is deliberately killing first responders such as fire fighters or paramedics in Lebanon in what are called ‘double-tap’ strikes. The US/NATO and Russia are also known to use these strikes, in which targets are bombed, the fighter jets then fly around and wait for emergency personnel to arrive, then DELIBERATELY BOMB THEM.

Israel has already killed approximately 50 first-aid personnel/paramedics in Lebanon alone within the last two or three weeks in exactly this manner. The Israeli government/Western media, if they even report on this at all, will tend to give a bland passing reference to it and maybe suggest that the ambulances were carrying Hezbollah weapons, etc. This is crude, blanket propaganda to justify these pre-planned ‘double-tap’ strikes.

Just like the US/NATO in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Libya, etc, and Russia in the Ukraine, Israel is waging a targeted war of terror against the civilian population in addition to their named enemy (in the case of their assault on Lebanon, Hezbollah). The targeting of civilians is actually a key part of this strategy. It’s not ‘collateral damage’ (I hate this vile term), it’s not an accident or carelessness. It’s strategy.

We all know about the evils of Hamas. But do we also know about how brazen and emboldened (by the Establishment/international community) Israeli soldiers in Gaza and Lebanon have become? There are currently numerous videos getting posted on social media by boastful soldiers, showing (among other things) Israeli snipers shooting hapless, unarmed people on the street/s below. Had you known this before?

One story which left a particularly bad taste in my mouth was about a group of people, whose ability to power their homes had been removed via Israeli strikes on energy facilities. They were spotted collecting firewood out in the countryside by Israeli forces. They were targeted and vaporised on the spot by the Israeli Air Force. These stories are assuredly only a small portion of what’s really been going on.

Rape, just like with virtually every army that has ever existed, is also a weapon of war. Hamas certainly does it, but so does Israel. In one case, about ten Israeli soldiers filmed themselves as they took turns raping a male captive. I tell you this stuff not to claim that Israel is any worse than anyone else. Rather, it’s to point out that Israel is no better. And they’re currently headed by a psychopath who would be willing to start a huge regional war- or even worse- for his own personal ambitions. To be fair, this doesn’t make him unique as most politicians across our planet are the same.

You would have heard about an Iranian missile salvo fired at Israel about a week ago. It was far more targeted and effective than Israel and Western media would like to admit. A lot of the missiles were downed by the Israeli ‘Iron Dome’ missile defence system, but a lot got through and landed either on or near their targets. It’s hard to know about deaths or damages incurred, as Israel (like most other countries/entities) cover up their losses. But there is credible information that the grounds of at least one airbase were hit, with numerous fighter planes damaged on the ground and several possibly even destroyed.

Israel has not yet responded to this Iranian act, but no doubt has something cooking. Yet, while Netanyahu is clearly bent on his personal agenda and is keen to escalate, there is also an apparent reason for Israel to be at least a little cautious before it decides how to retaliate. One reason for this is the narrowing gap between its technological capabilities and those of Iran. In particular, after decades of carping, fear-mongering and foaming at the mouth about Iran’s alleged nuclear program, the last few days have brought a major new (potential) development:

For the first time, at least in my opinion, there are the first believable suggestions that Iran has undertaken a secret(ive) test of a nuclear weapon. At this stage, it’s very much unconfirmed and some wonder whether the tremors detected in that particular part of Iran could be put down to an earthquake. Yet, there are a few circumstantial details which could attribute the cause to something else. If it was a nuke, the test was obviously deep underground. And if Iran indeed has such weapons already, then they might be still somewhat primitive and there would be questions at this point about how effectively they could be launched, what power they’d have, and so on.

It's rather conjectural, but certainly something to watch. Just to add to this, Alex Jones- a flawed man who is sometimes wrong but still vastly way better than mainstream media- has stated for years that Iran already has nukes of one kind or another.

What do I think? Don’t know, and it doesn’t matter what I think. But it’s certainly noteworthy.

I personally don’t know what to think about the modern nation-state of Israel, but my advice to anyone on this is to avoid either extreme, i.e. don’t hate it but don’t idolize it. It’s indeed possible that God- in His infinite wisdom and glory- has a plan to redeem the nation-state of Israel in the future. As pointed out in previous posts, I used to be an Israel lover, but my eyes were opened during the ‘Arab Spring’ when I learned that Israel was one of the main sponsors/supporters of ISIS and al-queda in Syria.

There is no question right now that Israel is a fallen, evil nation. Is it worse than other nations? I don’t believe that anyone has the right to make such a claim. But I also don’t believe anyone has the right to claim that Israel is somehow better. At the end of the day, salvation is only through Christ. And Israel is no more Christian than Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran.

For more on this (particularly my point from the last paragraph), I recommend a nice little 12-minute YouTube video from, ‘Apologia Studios’, titled, ‘Is modern Israel God’s Chosen People?’ The video is almost a year old. In a biblically sound, loving manner the hosts point out that it is NOT (on the contrary, it needs to be evangelized just as much as any other non-Christian nation).

In fact, as shown in the video, many Jews in Israel are deeply hostile to Christians, abusing them, protesting them, spitting at them and throwing stones at them when they see them. Moreover, Israel also has a large secular segment of its society which embraces transgenderism, same-sex marriage, sexualization in general, atheism, etc.

Again; is Israel worse than other nations? I don’t believe this is a fair, objective statement. Is it better than other nations? What do you think?

Link to the video is below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4yRH9rA3_o

[TrueAndMagneticNorth]

Hello my friends,

Today I wish to share some musings about the state of the wars, namely the Ukrainian theatre and the Middle-East. I won’t be sharing any links today, just trying to paraphrase (with a bit of editorializing) the many hours I’ve recently spent watching, reading and musing over what’s been going on.

Firstly, to the Ukraine War. There has recently been some quite hysterical globalist/Western media reporting about the introduction of (approx. 10,000) North Korean troops into the war on the side of Russia. The coverage has been very synchronized and there are three possibilities: a) It’s true, just as the Establishment media has told us; b) It’s 100% false/invented and is designed to ratchet up tensions and escalate the war; c) There’s an element of truth to the story, but it’s being hyped up for the purpose mentioned in possibility ‘b’.

Strike ‘a’ from the list. This is almost certainly not the case. My best guess is possibility ‘c’. Russia and North Korea are obviously close allies, and their troops train together. I have heard, for example, that they have recently done manoeuvres together in Siberia (a LONG way from the warfront). Something else to remember- Ukrainian troops, while beleaguered, still hold onto some of the Russian territory around Kursk which they had invaded in recent months. It’s possible that North Korean troops could be in that area, near the fighting but still positioned on what is internationally-recognized Russian territory.

But there is, to date, no credible evidence that any North Korean troops have been inserted into the Ukraine itself. And even if some have indeed been deployed, it would very likely be small formations which are a far cry from the many thousands touted by globalist media. Despite this, US-controlled South Korea is crying blue murder and threatening to send its own troops there (Ukraine) to directly confront the North Koreans.

To my mind, this doesn’t make any sense and wreaks of CIA interference and puppeteering, in an endeavour to redeem the West’s Ukraine project. While there may indeed be small numbers of North Korean elements in the Ukrainian theatre (quite believable, especially since it has been known to be supplying Russia with weapons), there are also known to be elements from many NATO countries and even non-NATO countries on the Ukraine side.

Right from the outset of the war, for example, I’ve heard persistent suggestions that the special forces of many nations- including South Korea- were active on the ground against the Russians. Moreover, I recently saw photographic proof of the corpses and documentation of four Western mercenaries killed on the battlefield on the Russian territory around Kursk. At least three of them were American, and they had either recently left the US armed forces, or were still active in the US armed forces. They had saboteur’s equipment on them, and were evidently there (where they had no business being) to sow terror on Russian territory.

On the battle front, the Russians are steadily expelling the Ukrainian invaders and their mercenary allies from the Kursk region. Meanwhile, in eastern Ukraine- where the Russians are the invaders- they continue to make gains, grinding down and pushing back the Ukrainian defenders. Russian forces recently took the regional city of Selydove (population 20,000-plus), their biggest gain since they took Vuhledar about a month ago. The killing, maiming and destruction goes on.

I’ll briefly comment on the Middle-East. Israel continues to hammer Gaza and Lebanon. Again, I am surprised at how easily Hezbollah has rolled over in Lebanon. I thought they would do much more damage to Israel than what they have been able to do.

The hatreds in that part of the world are obviously ancient, but if we look at things simply through the lens of the last 13 months or so we have learned three key things: a) Hamas are monsters. This was displayed for the whole world to see on October 7th last year; b) The Israeli military and security forces are monsters. This has been displayed since they declared total war on Gaza, and now Lebanon; c) the allies/apologists for both sides get angry at the monstrous actions of the other side, but have no problem at all with their own side committing the same monstrous actions.

Don’t misunderstand what I’m saying here. We are all fallen- every person, every group, every nation. All of us. None of us are worthy of God’s grace, and I just think it’s morally questionable territory indeed to be lionizing anyone, whether it by Israel, its enemies, or the US or its enemies. We are all fallen. There is a potential monster in every one of us.

In the case of Israel and its enemies, both sides have deliberately shot and bombed civilians. Both sides have raped people on the other side. Both sides have deliberately targeted each other’s civilian infrastructure and emergency services. Both sides have committed deliberate, systematic mass murder against the civilians on the other side.

The one-and-only difference, as pointed out in earlier posts, is that Israel has the means (sophistication, superior forces, technology, etc) to commit its crimes on an industrial scale. Hamas and its backers would love to have the means (as demonstrated on October 7th last year), but don’t have these means to do it on an ongoing, industrial scale.

The term ‘moral equivalency’ is not a dirty word (or dirty phrase). It’s actually quite biblical. We are all fallen, all lost without Christ. Neither Israel nor its enemies are Christian. And their actions reflect it. Heck, even so-called ‘Christian’ countries do evil, unthinkable things when they go to war. I was never in the military, but don’t need to serve to know that war is inherently evil. ‘Humane’ war, or ‘Just’ war, are propaganda terms popularized in recent decades.

And yet, war is sometimes necessary and unavoidable. For example, in what other way could the likes of al-Queda or ISIS be dealt with? I can think of no other way. Humanity is fallen, and lost without Christ.

The last thing I wish to comment on is the recent, much-hyped Israeli ‘response’ against Iran. This was a limited bombing run which hit a few targets in Iran, killing several Iranian personnel. This was supposedly in response to an Iranian missile barrage a few weeks ago, which was supposedly in response to ongoing Israeli scorched-Earth attacks in Gaza/Lebanon.

The accuracy and effectiveness of the earlier Iranian attack had caught Israel and its supporter off-guard. In the aftermath of the recent so-called Israeli response, both sides claimed the higher ground. Israel and its supporters claimed it could have inflicted much more damage on Iran, but chose to keep the attack limited at this stage. Iran and its supporters claimed that Israel was a little anxious about the prospect of attacking harder, because they are now a little worried about Iran’s increasing capabilities.

My take, if it’s worth anything, is that both sides are partially correct. Israel could have attacked harder and wrought more destruction than they did, but were nervous/unsure about what Iran could/might do in response given its improving capabilities.

At the time of writing, Iran is still talking about responding in kind amid this ongoing tit-for-tat situation. In the background, there would’ve no doubt also been heavy US security/intel input into Israel’s actions on this front as the US election draws near, but one could only speculate about how much influence the US had (or still has) over Israeli actions, and what form this influence might take.

Lastly, I believe that Netanyahu- the leader of Israel- is a dangerous psychopath who has no interest in peace. In fact, he was facing all sorts of legal troubles (and corruption charges) prior to the October 7th (2023) attack on Israel and ensuing war. The Hamas attack on Israel is the best thing that could have happened to Netanyahu, and the longer his wars go on, the further back his corruption trial is pushed.

Note: I’m not suggesting that Netanyahu helped orchestrate the Hamas attacks as I have no evidence of this. Do I doubt that he or other politicians across the world COULD do such a thing to benefit themselves politically? No doubt at all. Of course they would. But is that what happened in this instance? I have no evidence at this stage to support it. But would he be glad that it happened? Absolutely. ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste,’ as somebody once said. And October 7th (2023) was all of Netanyahu’s Christmases and birthdays come at once.

Secondly, and I’m just trying to give you the best even-minded analysis I can, I suspect that the corruption charges and criminal proceeding against Netanyahu are probably just as baseless and phoney as all of the ones levelled against Trump. I don’t like Trump and can’t stand Netanyahu, but that doesn’t stop me from trying to give you a balanced take of the whole thing.

There are plenty of real things that Netanyahu could be charged with. He is a sadistic mass-killer, a war criminal, a backer of Al-Queda and ISIS in Syria, and a criminal against his own people for publicly vowing to volunteer his own population as virtual test rabbits for Pfizer (during the Covid ‘vaccine’ roll-out). Yet, none of his political opponents were planning to have him prosecuted for any of these real crimes. I don’t know the precise details, but I believe his opponents were wanting to use lawfare against him for the same kinds of frivolous charges and trials which Trump’s opponents have used against him.

The flip side of the coin with Netanyahu, however, is that he is indeed a monster who would happily sacrifice thousands and thousands of people (including his own) to save his own skin. So yes, he is a profoundly evil man, but not because of the likely very dodgy charges brought against him by his internal political opponents.

That’s all for today. There are suggestions of a possible truce in Lebanon, and it would be a good idea to pray for a fair arrangement for all sides (the likes of which only God Himself could oversee).

Until next time.

[TrueAndMagneticNorth]

Hi again,

This is another post about Israel and its wars against Gaza and Lebanon.

Firstly, the usual disclaimer: It's already been established by any fair-minded observer that Hamas is evil. The evidence backs this up.

But here's the flip side of the coin: It's already been established by any fair-minded observer that Israel is evil. The evidence backs this up.

But try telling both of these facts to any all-in supporter of one side or the other. It's futile talking to zealots about this.

In the case of Israel, the Jewish state has got a good thing going. They're expert at playing the victim card and convincing the world that it's The World v Israel, even as the international political Establishment and globalist mainstream media continue to be fully supportive of Israel and it's activities (giving limp, muted critiques on occasion at best).

And if anyone dares to really step up and give legitimate criticism in the public sphere, they have WWII thrown in their face and are equated to Hitler.

They are also called terror sympathisers which is quite ironic, given Israel's collossal covert support for ISIS and al-queda during the Syrian Civil War.

I do believe that God has a plan for the nation-state of Israel and I would never dare question His infinite wisdom (in comparison to my flawed, limited knowledge).

Having said that, I'm currently struggling a great deal with Israel's ongoing warcrimes, terrorism and mass murder. Particularly troubling to me is that it's not only backed by the New World Order, but also cheered on by many Christians because the modern nation-state of Israel is made up of 'God's chosen people'.

I do not expect the brakes to be put on Israel or Netanyahu under a Trump administration.

In short, I feel like I'm missing something from this whole picture and I ask God to let me in on it, to help me understand.

I link to an article below which details how Israel has deliberately killed over 200 civilian emergency workers in Lebanon over the last two months.

In the latest atrocity, they incinerated 15 emergency workers in a building who were completely unaffiliated with Hezbollah.

How is this better than Hamas? How is this better than the crimes of a certain ideology that terrorised and tore apart Europe and the world 80-or-so years ago?

Granted, the scale of atrocities differ from case to case. But the intent and level of moral bankruptcy do not, in my honest opinion.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... rs-lebanon

[TrueAndMagneticNorth]

Hi Friends,

A quick update on the topic of NATO/Ukraine and Russia. You’ve probably already heard that the US government has approved use of its long-range missiles to be fired from Ukraine into Russia. This was obviously not a decision made by Joe Biden, as reported in the media, but by the shadowy background elements that pull his strings.

The best-case scenario is that the deep state/military-industrial complex are acting petulantly after their clearly less-preferred candidate won the US election, and are now throwing around a few geopolitical hand grenades in the time leading up to his swearing-in.

The missiles have so far reportedly had a negligible impact. Only 50 or so were currently ready for use in the Ukraine, and up to 20 have already been fired. Some were reportedly downed by Russian air defence systems, while the others caused modest damage but as yet no known fatalities.

On the other hand, US and British long-range missiles- supported by NATO targeting systems and almost certainly launched by NATO personnel- are now being fired deep into the territory of the largest nuclear power on Earth. In response, Putin has already signed official documents which lower the threshold for Russian use of nuclear weapons against its enemies.

It is utterly irrelevant what you think of Trump or Russia: Good, bad or indifferent- who cares? This is a psychotic escalation purely the fault of the Washington-based government/media/military/intelligence complex.

It’s going to be a long two months in the run-up to January 20th, which I believe is around about the time when Trump should be sworn back into office. Trump is just about as untrustworthy as any other politician, but at least he’s been consistently anti-war regarding Ukraine. He has often spoken of the need to de-escalate.

For the record, and I think you probably know this yourself: Trump was not supposed to win the election. He lost back in 2020 due to colossal, industrial-scale rigging but for reasons which I can’t quite get my head around, he has apparently been allowed to win the vote on this occasion.

It’s going to be hard for the globalist/New World Order elements to overturn the result of the vote itself, but there can be no doubt that powerful Establishment elements/operatives will still be scheming to scuttle the scheduled transfer of power on January 20th.

We’ve all seen what they’ve done over the last decade or so against Trump and his supporters: Constant demonization, incitement and slander, lawfare, kangaroo courts and even assassination attempts, one of which was two or three centimetres away from blowing out Trump’s brains (just like they did to JFK back in 1963).

So, with two long months still to go until inauguration, what are they going to do now? Without any doubt, they will still have thoughts about assassinating him. It remains a very real possibility. Of course, it would then be pinned on some random ‘lone gunman’. Moreover, this random lone gunman would also be conveniently killed in the immediate aftermath. A familiar playbook.

Hopefully none of this happens. Prayer is urgent. As Alex Jones recently said himself, we ought to be begging God to protect us from the globalists. It would be nice to think that the Trump team and Putin are in talks, and Russia is reassured that de-escalation is on the way if it could just put up with this for a couple of months. But who knows?

It would also be reassuring to consider this as indeed nothing more than a geopolitical hand grenade thrown by the petulant puppet masters whose hand-picked candidate lost the vote. But is this all it is?

As stated, this would appear to be the best-case scenario. So then, what would be the worst-case scenario? An orchestrated event so severe that it would lead to things such as martial law, emergency powers and yes, postponement or even cancellation of the transfer of power to Trump.

Such an (as yet) hypothetical event could include direct/official entry into the war of US/NATO forces, or a false flag incident such as (for example) a dirty bomb set off in Kyiv or a field nuke on the battlefield. Of course, it would then be universally blamed on Russia even before it could be humanly possible to know who was really responsible.

And once a single nuclear weapon has gone off, even if the exchange somehow stays limited, the world would never be the same again.

That’s all for today. Let’s hope and pray for a relatively eventless two months until the second half of January.

[TrueAndMagneticNorth]

Hello All,

There is no particular article or report to refer you to today. I only intend to share with you an overview of thoughts about what’s happening in the world of geopolitics and conflict, especially since the election victory of Donald Trump.

We all have our biases- me included- but I’ll endeavour to keep it as neutral as possible. Firstly, the usual disclaimer: It’s totally irrelevant what I, or any other individual thinks of Donald Trump. The fact is, while rough around the edges he’s not quite as openly Satanic or brazenly evil as the vast bulk of Western politicians clearly are these days. He’s also not quite as willing to bow to the globalist puppet masters.

For these reasons, and no doubt some others as well, he has never been the candidate-of-choice for the New World Order/Military-Industrial- Complex Establishment. He somehow scraped out a victory in 2016, lost in the face of industrial-scale vote rigging in 2020 (carried out to avoid a repeat of his shock 2016 victory) and somehow won again in 2024. These are all facts.

His life is still in great danger in the lead-up to his inauguration of January 20th, 2025. The same globalist Deep State forces that murdered JFK, framed a patsy and covered it up through the bought-and-paid-for mainstream media (not to mention the ‘silencing’ of dozens of key witnesses) have tried to assassinate Trump twice (most notably on their first attempt, a very near miss).

In addition to this, they are now tossing around dangerous geopolitical hand grenades that have some independent commentators now stating that we find ourselves amidst the opening salvos of World War 3.

Not only have the psychotic globalists in Washington, London, Paris, et al, begun firing their weapons into Russia from Ukrainian territory, there is now talk of giving nukes to Ukraine. Don’t believe the propaganda talk of ‘giving Ukraine tools to defend itself’. We’re well beyond that. The West, led by Washington, is directly attacking Russian territory with long-range weapons and is talking about stationing their own nuclear weapons on the border facing into Russia.

Biden is senile, and was last seen abruptly leaving a press conference and waddling aimlessly into the jungle (find the video on YouTube if you want to see it). His deputy, a hopelessly inappropriate candidate for the presidency, took her loss worse than anyone may have previously assumed. She recently released a video message online, in which she looks partially dishevelled, unwell and hungover (complete with apparently slurred speech and nonsensical psycho-babble).

I’m not mocking anyone here for senility. One of my nearest-and-dearest has heavy dementia. Nor am I mocking the concept of losing and taking it hard. We all win some and lose some, and I’ve had my fair share of failures.

But who is steering the ship? This goes well beyond partisan politics. I haven’t cared about partisan politics for years, and am more interested in me and my family just being left in peace, free to make our own decisions and live our own lives, not to mention not getting vaporised in a nuclear exchange, or dying from radiation poisoning.

There has been persistent talk that about 10,000 North Korean troops have been deployed into Russia near Kursk, the area invaded by Ukrainian forces several months back. This is obviously escalatory from the Russian side- if true- but I’m still yet to see hard evidence that this story hasn’t been entirely invented by the Western globalist media/political Establishment.

Amid all of this we have the hideous Hamas crimes against Israel, and the multiple-fold unspeakable crimes of Israel against Gaza and Lebanon. There is a tentative ceasefire on the Israel-Lebanon front. But Israel is currently headed by a cold-blooded psychopath, who knows that the best way to sideline his own looming criminal/legal trials on the home front is to continue to launch perpetual war across the region.

Netanyahu is absolutely on the same moral plain as the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, etc, and he absolutely belongs in the dock on war crimes charges along with them (those of them that haven’t been killed already). To argue against this is to argue based on bias and emotion at the expense of fairness and logic.

To top off all of this mayhem, guess where things have flared up just over the last couple of days after several years of relative calm? It’s the country whose suffering motivated me to start up this forum in the first place: Namely, Syria.

I don’t wish to delve too deep into it today, and I just pray that it’s a momentary flare-up rather than the start of worse things to come. In short, the Syrian government never regained total control of the country even as it gained the upper-hand (backed by Russia, among other allies). The governorate of Idlib, in the top left corner on Turkey’s southern border, has remained largely under the control of CIA-backed jihadist rebel groups.

A lot of them were sent there in ceasefire arrangements as the government clawed back more territory, and Idlib is thus the last major CIA/jihadist rebel stronghold in Syria, although US troops occupy some of the oil-rich territory in the east.

Well, seemingly out of nowhere, the jihadists launched a large offensive in the north of the country, attempting to take over the last slithers of Idlib not yet under the control, and streaming over the border into Aleppo governorate.

While Damascus (much further south) is the capital of Syria, the city of Aleppo (normal in Syria for the capital of a governorate to have the same name as the governorate) is the biggest city in Syria. And the proximity of Aleppo city way up north (near the Turkish border, etc) makes it a lot harder for the government to defend (compared to Damascus).

Aleppo city was partially controlled by jihadist rebels during the height of the Syrian Civil War, and government troops in the city were at risk of total besiegement for quite some time. But ultimately, with Russian help from the air and Iranian proxy assistance on the ground, the Syrian government was able to take back the whole city in 2016.

Now- that is to say today- jihadist rebels in their lightning offensive have reportedly swarmed across the countryside of Aleppo governorate and are only a few kilometres away from entering the outskirts of Aleppo city itself. At this point, government forces and their allies have not been able stop the offensive. The fall of this city to jihadists would obviously be a catastrophe.

If we take a step back for a minute, it’s very obvious that the timing of this escalation in Syria is no coincidence. It appears to be part of the initial salvos of the Third World War which we apparently find ourselves in today. Russia backs the Syrian government and the collective West backs the jihadist rebels. This is how it’s been throughout the Syrian Civil War.

As a footnote, it’s worth noting that the Bible does not indicate that the world will be totally wiped out in a nuclear holocaust. But it also does not rule out a somewhat limited exchange that takes the world to the precipice of nuclear annihilation (at one point or another, but particularly just prior to the return of Christ).

I quote Matthew 24: 21-22: For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again. If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

I’ll leave it there but urge you to pray that the Lord would protect us from the evil one and his minions on Earth who are so unbelievably perverted that they would flirt with global nuclear annihilation.