The South left the Union in order to defend slavery and racial supremacy. The Southerners believed it was a scientific truth of the world that blacks were inferior and should be subservient. They didn’t lose these beliefs the moment they lost the war. After the Civil War, White Southerns responded to the loss by organizing in order to persecute, murder, beat, and instill fear in, blacks, in order to keep them down and maintain racial supremacy. White Southerners maintained white supremacy through terrorism.
The Klu Klux Klan, the KKK, started as a kind of social club, almost like a college fraternity. They made up silly-sounding titles and wore fun costumes. The people in it were racists, but they didn’t set up the organization to do racist things.
The Klan became a political organization when members perceived the North’s rule as too aggressive in potentially arming blacks in state militias and giving them the ability to vote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX7sVUgcD4I
What America’s Failures in Iraq Can Tell Us About the War in Iran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKkpCnZs_Xc
China helped Iran start its nuclear program in the 1980s and continued helping them in the 1990s.
China has a business relationship with Iran. They are not actual friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAY1Po5Ixek
The new Syrian government has allowed and committed murders of multiple ethnic minorities. Syria seems to have replaced one authoritarian state with another. The Kurds were crushed by the government after Trump abandoned them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2lFXfnU4sk
The Marines expect to be fighting where they may be on islands cutoff from resupply and need a weapon easy to maintain. They also expect to be close to the enemy, so a larger mag size is more important than the distance the bullet fires. And thus, the Marines are not adapting the Army’s new rifle. The Marines also don’t want to deal with the growing pains of adopting a new rifle and ammunition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zkiqJsAxj0
Republican and Democratic senators had a deal that would fund all of Homeland Security except ICE, but Trump said no.
Trump is paying a French company one billion dollars to stop a wind farm project and instead invest in oil and gas projects because Trump has an irrational bias against wind energy. He thinks they are ugly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgbQHKQa7s
Trump handles serious questions about his war in Iran with glib dishonesty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhzCmOlHJBw
“The Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S. offshore wind leases as the administration ramps up its campaign against offshore wind and other renewable energy.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/french-company-stops-us-offshore-172230712.html
Iran installed a lot of security cameras to help control its people. Israel hacked them and they helped Israel assassinate Iran’s leader.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/iran-built-vast-camera-network-120218284.html
The US allowing Iran to ship its oil while Iran stops most others, except those it gives permission, is a sign of weakness from the US. Trump isn’t willing to face the pain of much higher oil prices. If Trump isn’t willing to take such pain, then why would Iran agree to any significant demands?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnHfKyNcDHY