Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
A great strategic advantage that the US has traditionally had over China is that the US had many allies and partners. Recently, the US has been undermining this great strategic advantage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISw7pzKhqtI
In Iran, Trump is unlikely to achieve anything better than Obama got in his Iran-deal.
Cuban officials may be open to a Venezuela-like deal, but US domestic politics would not support it. Too many in the US want the Cuban regime completely gone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYWquzpekk
Trump has been brazenly enriching himself and his family with his presidential powers. His base doesn’t care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zb7oJPYwlw
Secretary of Defense Hegseth is inviting US military men and women to commit war crimes. “no matter what” he and Trump will have their back. No matter what? Part of being a professional in any profession is that you have ethics and rules, and if you act unethically, your leadership expects you to be punished or/and removed from your profession.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt4j77ZlhE0
Some companies use regulations to their advantage. They beat companies that are obeying the spirit of the law, by finding a loophole that absolutely destroys the spirit of the law, but technically, can be argued to follow the rule of the law. Cheating companies have a competitive advantage and the nice guys finish last.
This strategy is aided by weak regulators.
Sometimes this is bad because the regulation fails to prevent the harm it was supposed to stop. Other times it is good because the regulation was preventing new and disruptive ideas from flourishing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q37yxPUAC24
The writer of the Book of Revelations was advocating for things that went starkly against what Jesus himself is purported to have said.
One of the reasons Revelations was included in the Bible was because it could be used to argue for the Trinity.
Revelations was written to specific Christians who felt that they were being persecuted by the Roman Empire, and it was promising that the good Christians would triumph and God would punish the persecutors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80QVZsWjtis
Japan and the Philippines are increasing their military cooperation to counter an aggressive China.
China has repeatedly used their military to steal maritime territory, and is having the greatest ever peacetime increase in military.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkBLIBEsHE0
When the Trump administration temporarily cuts certain science funding, some studies can’t just start up again. They require specialized people, equipment, and biological specimens, and those can’t just wait for funding to return. Our knowledge about the world, and the medical benefits some of this knowledge would have led to, have been hurt by these shortsighted actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCULe4p3-AQ
Being a heretic is hard. It’s easy to be irreverent and to go against currently favored theories, but it’s hard to do it well. You don’t get serious points by saying Einstein is wrong and then making some crappy argument against him, even if the argument is rhetorically strong. You get serious points for doing the theoretical and empirical homework that actually shows Einstein is wrong.
Time and energy in our finite lives are limited. If you want someone to take the time to read and understand your radical theory, you’ve got to do the homework to understand the currently favored theories and why they are favored. If you haven’t done the hard homework, then your theory is probably wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AoRxtYZrZo
The Romans rose partially because they were willing to expand their citizenry more than other states around them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1FetxWcYI