The Times of Israel Covers MRFF in Exceptional Analysis of the Dangers “When Prophecy Replaces Intelligence” — The Nation Covers “Hegseth’s Holy War”
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“End-times framing introduces a different logic. It recasts a contingent conflict as a scripted event with a predetermined outcome.
“That shift has concrete effects. When outcomes are treated as inevitable, variance in intelligence assessment narrows and alternative courses of action receive less serious consideration. … None of this requires formal orders. It emerges through command climate.
“In such an environment, analytic debate is not simply disagreement. It can be interpreted—implicitly or explicitly—as resistance to God’s will.”
— William Keenan, retired Middle East Intelligence Analyst who served at NATO and the Pentagon, writing for “The Blogs” at The Times of Israel
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- April 20, 2026 | 3 comments
When the civil war breaks out, do you think the Lindsey Grahams of the world and the likes of Pete Kegsbreath, Little Marco, Howard Nutlick, et al. will take up arms to defend MAGA?
Not on your life! They’ll be the first to unass the area. They’ll run like the cowards they are.
Wars are for YOU to fight and die in. Not them. Pain and suffering is for MAGA minions, not the Epstein class.
You think Trumpers Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of the Epstein klan will pick up arms? They’ll be long gone, watching your suffering from their doomsday pads in New Zealand.
Trump and his crew of grifters, his cabinet and friends, are the biggest cowards on the face of the planet. Cunts. Every one of them.
They wouldn’t give a working man the steam off their piss!
Have fun with your Armageddon. By the way, Jesus ain’t coming! You’re on your own!
Synergy, their whole plan depends on us taking each other out. Oh, they have to save a few folks, someone has the make the beds after all but the rest of us?
DHS might have publicly stopped building detention centers but their contractors are still being busy little bees. Wonder who they plan on housing there? LOL Oh, I know – folks like me, those who don’t fit their perfect planned communities and pre-determined job prospects.
It would be really funny as in karmically hilarious if the Tech bros and the MAGA bros just got in each other’s way while trying to take over the world.
But that’s just me, being me.
Trump jubilantly posts, “Iran’s new president has just asked for a CEASE FIRE!” Well, we know he’s lying when his lips are moving.
Um, except, ….. Iran doesn’t have a new president! LMAO. And Iran HASN’T asked for a cease fire. In your dreams Donnie!
And this is the dumb mother fucker MAGA gave their sons and daughters to, to go fight and die for ……. ?
You’ve always got prayer MAGA. Pray you get raptured before the rupture!
What do dying empires do? They flail – right before your eyes.
Get yourself some of that $4 dollar a gallon gas before it goes up again.
And ask your doctor for some diazepam. “You ain’t seen no wreck like we ‘bout to get into!” :-)
Two thirds of the military voted for Trump. So, the only sympathy from this end is for the remaining third that gets ordered into harm’s way that hits the wrong lottery and comes home in a body bag, a little MAGA gift to their loved ones.
Completely unnecessary, an unprovoked “excursion” as Trump refers to it. A Venezuelan weekend!
Trump says, “we’ve won! Their military is completely destroyed.” But yet, um, a ghost military is still pounding Israel, gulf nations, and the strait remains closed? Where’s the U.S. navy? What’s that? A thousand miles away? Why are they a thousand miles away? I thought this was gonna be a cake walk! Trump telling the UK, “if you want oil, go get it!”
Israel has wanted, for decades, for America to put US troops on the ground in Iran to fight their wars for them. And now Saudi and the UAE are seconding Israel’s call for US troops to die, not just for Judaism, but also for Wahabi Islam. The dripping irony.
The truth is that most gulf nation countries are nothing but family businesses. Saudi, in particular, is the world’s largest family-owned business in one of the biggest shit-hole societies on the planet, in one of the shittiest locations on the planet. I’ve been there – many times. The families running those shitholes are as Islamic as Jeffery Epstein. The debauchery and corruption in these families palpable. Saudi, for example, has a very large drug problem with its younger crowd. But you never hear about it do you? And they do love them some Johnny Walker! It goes well with the plane loads of hookers they bring in from Paris, and of course, cocaine and piety, a transubstantiation equivalent for the Muslim ruling class.
The Persians have been around for millennia. The gulf nations? Imperial fabrications. Supplicants to US hegemony. We tried to subjugate Iran, you know, Kermit Roosevelt, beginning in 1953. Didn’t end so well and ….. here we are!
The gulf nations know their family-owned businesses are in peril. You hear of Saudi or the UAE talking about using their troops in coalition with the U.S. in a ground invasion of Iran? The answer an emphatic no. Any other countries offering to send troops? Laughing at you Donnie?
But yet the UAE and Saudi have no hesitation in begging the United states to send its sons and daughters to die to keep their family businesses afloat. C’mon Donnie. Show us how big them Trump balls are – send Baron! Team him up with Jared Kushner and they’ll bring this to a close. Add Whitkoff? What’s not to love?
But again, two thirds of military members voted to participate in the Trump lottery. Good luck to you? Should we be hoping you win?
Safe flight to Kharg. Watch out for snakes, er, I mean, mines, and missiles, and drones, and ……. Iranians? Make sure your battle buddy is Christian? Am I getting that right? It is, after all is said and done, a Christian war, amirite? I mean, that’s what commanders are saying. Straight from Petey Kegsbreath himself, “this is God’s war!”
In case you make it home, I’m hearing there’s an election coming up in about six months. I don’t really keep up with it. But I think you’ll get to choose again!
OK, the wreck begins this weekend! Fireworks over Kharg island?
I hear the gulf nations are gonna lose their ……… water! Fucking mass migration. I mean, you can’t really drink oil can you? Maybe they can distill it. Shit, that gives you gas. Damn it!
You gonna let your Arab friends in the gulf migrate to the U.S. Donnie? Oh snap! They’re brown! Where’s Kristi Noem when you need her? She still praying with Corey Lewandowski? Down on her knees and all that caper, the good Christian she is.
I hear Lindsey Graham is jumping in. Is that true? With his pink bubble gun? Just like Iwo Jima, amirite Lindsey? I’m hearing they can get you a pink body bag. Just in case.
Keep praying MAGA. You’ll get Brent crude up to $200 a barrel, no worries.
The kind of destruction that fills Petey Kegsbreath with such glee, vocalized in his Pentagon prayer vigils, invoking the power of the creator to aid and assist the United States and Israel in the killing of innocents, closing his verbal vomit with “in Jesus Christ’s name we pray.” Laughable.
They don’t get it. Jesus is still in Tenerife on vacation hanging out with Mary Magdalene, not taking calls, got his ear buds in listening to reggae tunes, he’s not listening!
With a sangria in hand, on the beach, yeah Petey, you may as well be praying to a door knob, he’s just not, spoiler alert, that into you!
Petey says, “we negotiate with bombs,” and the Iranian reply? “We negotiate with ballistic missiles and drones and decimating the world economy.” Oh snap! You didn’t plan on an economic impact? Thought you had a Venezuela weekend on your hands?
What’s that? Patriot and Thaad have vulnerabilities? And they cost a shit load of money? Why are you moving thaad systems from Korea? What’s that? The Iranians took out Thaad systems? With drones? Really? How’s that possible Petey? I thought you were talking to Jesus.
Some of those vulnerabilities are buried in classified operational capabilities that require a synthesis of component pieces to reach a macro conclusion; however, there’s a whole lot of unclassified information available on ………. Google? :-) Seems like I remember the Iranians knowing how to read – in English. Could be wrong.
All of that to say, Hegseth is a fucking idiot! But, careful what you ask for MAGA! You just might get it! :-)
I would say he’s the finest intellectual mind you can pry away from Fox News but I’d be lying. But we already know you can’t be above a 73 IQ and serve in a Trump cabinet position.
Intellectual incapacity is to military leadership as Hegseth is to Sun Tzu!
Go get ‘em Petey. You and Donnie will get gas up to $10 dollars a gallon if it kills you!
MAGA already complaining, “if we don’t get any oil from the strait, and produce all we need, why are we paying more?” Too fucking funny watching MAGA heads do a full on brain freeze! :-)
Don’t forget to pray MAGA!
What goes through a flag officer’s head when they, knowingly, orchestrate a slaughter of America’s sons under their charge by deploying them to the killing fields of Iran?
Casualty assessments part of all military planning. The logistics involved. How many body bags will I need?
Of course, they won’t be the ones notifying families back home that Johnny didn’t make it. They have military casualty teams that take care of that part for them. The great insulator fir decision makers.
How does a casualty team officer look the family of a fallen soldier in the eye and throw hollow platitudes at them, “they died for freedom,” their thought bubbles, “I need to get the fuck out of here. Give them their flag and let’s get this over with. I need a drink!”
Did they serve their country? Implicit in that thought is that they died for a reason. What was the reason? They died because forty years ago Iran was two weeks away from getting a nuclear weapon?
And even if Iran had (or has) a nuclear weapon, the United States has three thousand and seven hundred of them.
I find it amazing how you can give the grieving family of a fallen soldier a flag, a couple trinkets, and a few pieces of paper and move on to the next fallen angel family, the fallen’s “service” covered in platitudes. “You can be proud of your son’s service. He died for freedom. For American values.”
From Vietnam forward, millions have died. For American values!
Isn’t it past time to ask the question, “what the fuck are American values?”
I’ll tell you what they are. Lowered standards of living, shorter life spans, minimized health care, increased childhood poverty (the U.S. leads the world at 21%), lowered education standards, subservience to the owner class, higher corporate profits, and, of course, endless wars!
Go get yourself some of that “American Dream!” It’s waiting for you. Bring your fealty with you!
The U.S. empire is long past its shelf life. Go back in history. What do all failing empires do? How do they behave?
Just like the U.S. is behaving. Aggression. Testosterone. Folly. Thrashing, flailing, and failing!
To be sure, Trump is not the cause, he’s just a symptom of an America that’s been on the downhill slide for decades, bolstered by their perceived imperiousness.
Trump is an accelerant no doubt. A dying old man trying to seal in the Walter Mitty of his own delusional mind. Having never known love in his childhood the psychosis clearly evident in his demands for fealty as he checks out.
Christian dogma? It fuels the fall. Subjugates in a dying empire calling for a “savior.” Someone to “make it right,” a populous of division clawing at each other while the rulers take everything they can from the burning building.
Yeah, MAGA is an accelerant. Gas on a five alarm fire. In their own house.
Your team won so what do you naturally do? You burn down the fucking stadium!
The eschatology of the revealed knowledge you think you know? The gnashing of teeth! YOURS!
Jesus ain’t coming to save you. Why would he when you planted the very seeds of your own despair?
ANY God that would allow you into the gates of heaven would be undertaking a universally charitable mission to arrest stupidity. An admission of failure in your own creation. Perfection dispelled.
Good luck MAGA. Rapture before rupture? Is that a valid hope?