Bad news is ALL churches are bleeding members in the west. Maybe the mormons aren't but thats cause birthrates.
Revolution in Iran
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If we look at this through the lens of Military Deception (MILDEC) or "Reflexive Control," there are several ways an intentional leak about ammunition shortages could benefit the U.S. or its allies:
1. The "Lure" Strategy (Feigning Weakness)
One of the oldest tricks in the book—dating back to Sun Tzu—is to "appear weak when you are strong." By signaling an "acute shortage," the U.S. may be trying to bait adversaries into overextending themselves or taking aggressive actions based on the assumption that the "arsenal of democracy" is empty. If an adversary moves based on this "secret" info and finds the U.S. fully stocked, they've fallen into a kinetic trap.
2. Strategic Burden-Shifting
This leak might be directed at European allies rather than enemies. By "confidentially" telling France that the shelves are bare, the U.S. creates a high-pressure environment for:
Forcing Strategic Autonomy: Pushing France and the EU to ramp up their own industrial base immediately.
Budgetary Leverage: Giving European leaders the "proof" they need to justify massive defense spending hikes to their domestic voters.
3. Managing Adversary Expectations
If the U.S. is planning a de-escalation or a pivot in its foreign policy, leaked reports of shortages provide a convenient "technical" reason for not intervening in certain conflicts. It allows the administration to say "we would help, but we physically can't," avoiding the political fallout of simply saying "we won't help."
4. Magruder’s Principle
This principle suggests it's easier to maintain a pre-existing belief than to create a new one. The world already knows the U.S. expended a massive amount of ordnance during the 2026 Iran conflict. Since the belief of a "depleted arsenal" already exists, a "leaked" confirmation of that belief is highly believable, making it the perfect vehicle for a deception campaign.
So a country that has been thoroughly defeated is in better military shape than the one that clobbered it? Good reporting.
Doomerville.
They are in much better strategic shape. Not everything is determined militarily. US behavior is undermining its very basis of power.
Period, full stop. We can agree there. It shouldn't even be a question.
Israel has given up land for peace.
Never said such a thing. I said they have a right to their land and defend it.
What strategy? How is the US undermining its power?
Just admit you have TDS and never have anything positive to say about the US.
Aw that's an insult to Doomers, dude he literally thinks Jesus crucifixion is an abomination though he technically didn't recant saying Jesus crucifixion is the abomination of desolation from rev13, literally the idol that literal Satan and the literal the proper noun Antichrist makes in the image of the Beast.. No wonder our lost Millennial peers the Doomers and the religious Boomers think the Apocalypse is already halfway done skipping a whole bunch of chapters.
I'm actually a partial preterist and do believe much of Revelation is fulfilled. If you are open to understanding why I'm happy to share. But I'm tired of people who only have negative things to say about America.
I do not believe, however, the crucifixion of Jesus was the abomination of desolation. According to Jesus' own words this isn't possible. There would have had to be armies surrounding Jerusalem prior to His crucifixion.
I have little doubt that everyone is partially wrong.
If you had to describe the book of Revelation in a couple of sentences, how would you do it?
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, a conclusion to the entire revelation of Jesus in the Bible and the most difficult book in the Bible to interpret.
There's a blessing for all who read Revelation in the book at the beginning and a curse at the end. Praise Jesus forever and ever, amen.
They are trying to muddy the waters. As I've explained before, Daniel mentions abominations that make desolate 3 separate times in 3 different chapters. Whoever wrote the gospel account said let the reader understand which one Daniel was talking about. It most definitley wasn't the one mentioned in Daniel 9, because it mentions an overspreading of abominations, not THE abomination. In fact, only one instance uses the definite article THE.
You're not even in the right chapter. The abomination of desolation is in Daniel 11.
Ridiculous. The blockade has throttled their oil export revenue stream profoundly, down to perhaps 30% of former levels.
Now they have no realistic means of repairing the 100's of billions of infrastructure destruction.
Projections are 20-30 years to patch things up.
Not to mention the 100's of billions in military expenditures and infrastructure destruction.
All of the major munitions hubs are smoking craters or buried under so much rubble that it makes no sense to even bother digging out.
Does the USA have any damage to its infrastructure? Any dead general staff? Did the IRGC disrupt the American economy output to the extent that decades of productivity have been lost?
Are you are living in some kind of IRGC apologist fantasy dreamscape? Snap out of it.
Abomination(s) that makes desolate is mentioned in chapters 9, 11 and 12. Only in chapter 12 is it called THE abomination