A Law is fixed, and applicable to all equally, with punishment if you break the Law. Save for exceptional circumstances, which are relatively rare. A Rule refers us to a 'Standard', a 'Norm' within a community, observed by most, but not enforceable. 'My Home, My Rules'. But not my Laws. You may ente…
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'Daddy' is not a person
To end a complex war with multiple participants engaged in the fight is far from simple. The present, temporary, relative stalemate in the war against Iran is evidence of that. Though the US agreed to a 'ceasefire', even quoting a ten point plan offered by Iran as the basis for further negotiations …
Slippery Slopes
To speak truth to power requires courage, or conviction. The very 'Jewish' Karl Marx wrote that religion is like opium for the people. I did read his work, and rejected those parts which advocated the creation of a dictatorship of the 'Masses', emerging from the 'Workers', to create an egalitarian '
Spinning out of control
Out of the blue, a ceasefire was announced in the war between the US and Iran. There is some doubt about Israel, since that country immediately announced that it would go on with its attempt to add a large part of Lebanon to the Jewish State. Why was this a surprise? Because Trump effectively demand…
Too smart for your own good
If opportunity comes knocking, offering great rewards, but acting on it is immoral, or unethical, what do you do? Acting in a moral, ethical sense, is encoded in a civilised upbringing. It comes natural to some. Others need a fair bit of discouragement to take them off the path to savagery.
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Failure is not an option
That story about one US F-15E shot down over Iran, with both pilots eventually rescued, but with millions upon millions lost on damaged and destroyed aircraft, never made a lot of sense. Professional analysts like 'Armchair Warlord' (Armchairw), and Will Schryver (imetatronic), or Arnaud Bertrand (R…
The Devil is in the Details
The past two days were disastrous for the US Air Force, with the loss of multiple aircraft. Another F-15E was lost to enemy fire, confirmed. The search and recovery of the pilots saw two Black Hawk helicopters being hit, and two 'C-130 Hercules' aircraft used to extract the second pilot from an impr…
No Honour among Thieves
From the early Eighties Trump consistently advocated for grabbing Iran's oil. His more recent profile, as the 'Peace Candidate', who could be trusted to end the 'Forever Wars' the US has been engaged in since the Soviet Union collapsed, costing the US a fortune, has collapsed completely. That was al…
The Hippy, Hippy Shake
Macron criticised Trump for saying one thing today, and something else tomorrow. Yet he was among Rutte's disciples sitting opposite 'Daddy' to hear him talk, pleasing him to avoid losing American support for their 'Coalition of the Willing' war with Russia. Trump's fans worship him, as they came to…
Selling confusion
The price of goods and services has an objective-, and a subjective component. Only the objective component can be measured in a meaningful way. The square meters of your apartment or house. The nutrition value of your food. The size of a bed. Ignoring all the subjective components, you may calculat…