You Be the "Judge"

This morning my thoughts were stirred by my OT read in the Book of Judges, as well as new updates on our negotiations with Iran.

It seems America is somwhere between the risk of nuclear war, if we have misjudged Iran's capacity, and they be unwilling to give on their movement toward advanced nuclear weaponry.

Then, the other extreme now offered to these known supporters of international terrorism, the carrot of shared resources.

That's a lot of margin for error among those entrusted with our nation's leadership, especially if one factors in the political nuance so evident in recent Federal actions.

We seem bent on a very hawkish, dominant global approach, one that now is surfacing potential threat among our decades old post war allies.

This is not some attempt to heighten apocalyptic last days thought, though I am aware, given the new "Board of Peace."

This post however is intended as a rational review of where we stand as a nation, one deep in debt, spending like crazy, with global tariffs seen as remedy.

Even that seems debatable, given our dependence on imports and doubtful promises of affordability, which now seem like distraction.

Frankly, I'm not even sure who's right on concept of tariffs, above my pay grade. However, I just saw SCOTUS' repeal and President's immediate rrsponse of "disgrace" and likely soon another move toward a counter under a different strategy beyond executive branch authority, which is indicative of his disregard for any balance of power, the congressional branch long withered on the vine.

Another revenue remedy being pursued is selling deadly fighter jets to wealthy Middle Eastern nations. Nations, whom at any time could destroy each other given their bent on sustaining opulent lifestyles among authoritarian family systems, some quite cruel if need be.

We might be grateful for China's and India's settling influence, though self-serving, as their economies are based upon our consumption, and a growing need for their brilliant technologies.

The return of the latter to our shores a promise by way of tariffs' impact on corporate bottom lines, along with troubling offers of Federal tax dollars for equity shares that could become upsetting of our free enterprise.

Let that sink in!

All this gives me pause as a Grandpa!

Then, given the aforementioned nuclear component, I began to see additional parallels between our current warlike national culture and pre-WWII Germany.

"In December 1938, German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann successfully split the uranium atom at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Their collaborator Lise Meitner of Jewish descent, had recently fled Nazi persecution, had provided the theoretical explanation for the process, which her nephew Otto Frisch named "fission".

Following this discovery, the German military established a secret research program known as the Uranverein (Uranium Club) in April 1939.

Led by the Army Weapons Office (Heereswaffenamt), the group was tasked with investigating military applications of nuclear energy, specifically a "superweapon".

Early successes and roadblocks

Germany initially led the race with a strong industrial base and access to uranium from seized mines in Czechoslovakia. However, several factors stalled their progress:

"Jewish Physics": The Nazi regime dismissed theoretical physics, including Einstein’s theory of relativity, as "Jewish science," which led to the exile of many brilliant minds.

Hitler and military leaders prioritized weapons with immediate utility, such as V-2 rockets, over the long-term, expensive development of an atomic bomb.

By early 1942—months before the U.S. Manhattan Project officially began—the German military concluded that a nuclear weapon could not be completed in time to affect the war's outcome. The project was downgraded to "civilian" status under the Reich Research Council, shifting focus toward building a nuclear reactor (Uranmaschine) rather than a bomb."

We're it not for anti-semitic bias and Germany's economic exhaustion, we might be speaking German, then short of the USA dropping the first atomic bomb, Japanese!

Just sharing my early morning thoughts after completing the book of Judges, with its atrocities all ascribed to God by Jewish nationalists, and so in contrast with the person of Jesus, whom Christians believe was the God-man, the Christ.

Another parallel that gives me great concern. God I hope I'm wrong!