The U.S. Military Has Become a Paper Tiger

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in December of 1991, the United States found itself positioned as the world’s sole superpower. America had the largest economy in the world, and its military budget was greater than all other nations combined. The strength of the dollar made it possible for the U.S. to exert influence over much of the world.

As we fast forward to today, it has become very questionable if the termsuperpower can still be genuinely applied to America. The U.S. Army has the lowest headcount prior to World War II. Our national debt has become so large that we can no longer afford to play the role of a foreign aid Santa Claus.

Even our military leaders have begun to question our readiness in fighting a war with global powers like Russia and China. U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley, recently told a House Armed Services Committee hearing that the military lacks the needed funding to “execute satisfactorily” military objectives.

A core problem with our military is the lack of leadership and moral courage. I blame Barack Hussein Obama the most, for this shortfall. His fixation on sexual social engineering has had a disastrous impact on the Department of Defense.

The enemies of America have been quick to notice the lack of resolve emanating from Washington. On several occasions, our forces have been harassed without provocation.

Last week, two Chinese fighter jets flew approximately fifty feet from a U.S. military reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea. At that time, our plane was flying on a “routine patrol” in international airspace.

Russian jets also frequently buzz our ships and aircraft. Last month, an SU-24 Russian fighter came as close as 30 yards to the USS Donald Cook missile destroyer. (That’s about three car lengths.) In January, a Russian jet nearly collided with one of our aircraft over international waters.

Even the Iranians feel they have the liberty to bully our military forces. The Iranian navy has regularly played chicken will our ships—at times firing live rounds in dangerous proximity to our ships.

The most outrageous harassment of our forces was the capture of 10 navy sailors in February.

The sordid details of how our military members were mistreated has been conveniently classified. The Iranian thugs would have held of our sailors much longer if Tehran had not been waiting the release of about $150 billion from the U.S. and did not want to lose out.

North Korea has made threats against the U.S. into a sick joke, by constantly saying it is ready to use nuclear weapons “against the United States.” In one propaganda video, North Korea broadcast its desires to drop a nuclear bomb on Washington D.C. In another video, it threatens to destroy New York City with a hydrogen bomb. This little yap dog barks endlessly because it knows America will never flex her muscles.

American forces wouldn’t have to worry about a jet crashing into them if the Obama Administration would clearly define the tragic consequences of getting too close to our strategic interests and our military.

A few months ago Russia thought it could ignore Turkey by regularly violating its airspace. When the Turkish military shot down a Russian jet in November, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a fit. But since then, Russian jets have stayed clear of the Turkish border.

Another area where America gets the rebuff is in all the financial markets. In response to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the United States imposed sanctions on Russian individuals and businesses. The sanctions contributed to the collapse of the Russian ruble and its bond market.

Initially it appeared that Russia would be forced to give into the economic pressure. But not so. Now that the ruble has stabilized and Russian bond prices have fully recovered, the current thinking is that sanctions from Uncle Sam are no longer the kiss of death.

The key reason why America has become a paper tiger may have everything to do with Bible prophecy. In the coming days, the center of power will shift to the nations that once comprised the Roman Empire. Obama may be setting the stage for the rise of the Antichrist. After eight years of his weak floundering positions as “leader” of the Western world, the global community would likely welcome someone who commands respect.

“And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:4-8).

–Todd

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Reviving Roman Empire Gestapo Growing

Thinking on the rise of Adolf Hitler to power in the Germany of the 1930s immediately produces realization that the bringing together of ruthless enforcement entities was key to establishment of der Fuhrer’s dictatorship.

It started with the brown shirts, headed by Ernst Rhome, a homosexual thug who did Hitler’s bidding in creating chaos and fear in a failing German republic. When the future Fuhrer began to consolidate power through eliminating opposition, the German Wehrmacht (Germany’s army) soon had to share controlling authority with the Waffen-SS, the black-uniformed, select group of supposedly Aryan troops assigned as Hitler’s personal body guard. The brown shirts were eliminated, and the SS, headed by the now infamous Heinrich Himmler, began the implementation of the final solution–the genocidal war on all Jews in Europe.

At the same time, the civilian police establishment was turned into the dreaded Gestapo, the police force that locked the Nazi regime into place. The Nazi military and civilian policing establishment became, in effect, a single force against which there was little resistance.

And, this brings us to the crux of things going on in that same geographical area from which Hitler terrorized the world.

There is seen by some the development of a movement to establish similar tyrannical controls within the European Union (EU) at the present hour. A recent article frames the growing threat the concerned observers fear. It states the following to begin the piece.

As the European Union and the establishment behind it become increasingly totalitarian, paranoid, and unstable, the EU super-state is raising up and training its own transnational military-police force. According to reports and its own propaganda material, the EU “Gendarmerie,” as the force is known, will apparently be charged with putting down protests and civil unrest, raiding illegal political meetings, propping up foreign governments, and even confiscating weapons. (“EU Building Potentially Tyrannical Military-Police Force” by Alex Newman, http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/23163, May 10, 2016)

The article states that the EU’s military-police force is merely one component of the broader transnational police-state apparatus being quietly imposed on the formerly sovereign peoples of Europe. The force includes the bringing together of “transnational police” with “transnational army units” and “EU air and naval operations.”

The bringing together of the forces has all been accomplished in the shadows, but is now being thrust into the light of geopolitical reality, according to the concerned observers reporting–those of Breitbart’s U.K. operation.

It was a controversial training operation taking place in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia in April that sparked concern and alarm within Europe and beyond. Media reports stirred fears of the rise of a tyrannical, controlling force. According to those reports, the training consolidated 600 troops and police officers in order to prepare for crises of the international and civil war sorts.

The EU military-operation information branch reported about its training scheme that the aim of the [April 15, 2016] Comprehensive Live Exercise will be capacity building of police and gendarmes who will participate in international stabilization missions and projects with a police component. The force is aimed at preparing the hybrid military-police force for “future” missions.

The troubling reports said that forces from Islamic Turkey, and Tunisia, as well as the African nation of Cameroon, participated in the “scheming.”

There remains, of course, considerable resistance to the reuniting of Europe. There is at the same time all of this is going on, a strong trend toward nationalism. The threat from the Islamist world, with deadly attacks such as that in Brussels, make the populations, if not the one-world order leaderships of EU nations, deeply concerned about a reviving, unified, European empire that takes protection against dangerous, Islamist, “migrants” out of the hands of local and national authority. Yet, crises that loom, particularly involving Greece-type financial meltdowns and rioting, make probable over-arching EU police controls and military involvement inevitable.

Remember, it was severe fiscal crisis that brought Hitler to power, along with and through his all-controlling military/police monstrosity. There are those who agree with George Santayana that”those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

God’s Word foretells that history repeats time after time. Every empire has eventually fallen, even, arguably, the greatest of all world empires, the Roman Empire. The same basic ingredients have constituted most every such collapse.

While Santayana’s bit of philosophy has been proven true time after time, he left out a key element in phrasing his thought. It should be: “Those who do not acknowledge God and cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Every world empire has ignored the true God of Heaven. Prophecy tells us that the final empire–that of Antichrist, the Roman prince of Daniel 9: 26-27–will be the most God-hating empire of all history. Along with all other signals of Christ’s soon return on the world-scene today, the reviving of the Roman Empire is more and more coming into view. It is a sure signal that this generation is at the end of the Church Age and that Christ’s call to His Bride must be near indeed.

–Terry

Anti-Semitism in England

The Labour Party in England has been rocked by a series of anti-Semitic scandals. No fewer than fifty members have been suspended for making inappropriate remarks. Many top leaders have been canned for making outrageous claims.

The former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, said that Hitler was a Zionist (and therefore Zionists are Nazis.)

Naz Shah, the Labour MP for Bradford West has endorsed a social media suggestion that all Israeli Jews move to America.

Jackie Walker, a vice chair in the Momentum movement, wrote about the “African holocaust” and Jews as “chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade.”

David Watson, the fundraising co-ordinator for the Walthamstow Labour Party, has been suspended pending an investigation. Watson shared articles on Facebook alleging that ISIS has used weapons produced in Israel, and accused the Jewish state of genocide against the Palestinians.

Of course Hitler was no Zionist, but he would feel right at home in the Labour Party. It’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was elected party leader last September. He took a trip to the Middle East in 2009. He described Hamas and Hezbollah which have been designated as terrorist organizations by Britain and the United States—as “friends.”

When Corbyn was asked about the problem of anti-Semitism within his party, he replied with a tight smile that “all forms of racism” are wrong. Mr. Corbyn, let me enlighten you; your tepid response is simply not good enough. Too many people have been affected by the tragic loss of six-million lives due to history’s greatest hate crime.

The Labour Party lost several seats in recent local elections, but it did have one stunning victory. Candidate Sadiq Khan was elected as the first Muslim mayor of London. In fact, this is the first time a Muslim has been the mayor of any major city in all of Europe. A key factor in Khan’s victory was the record low turnout at the polls; only 12 percent of the population bothered to vote.

The anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is the result of a growing belief that Israel is a criminal state. Never mind the fact that 99 percent of all acts of mass murder are carried out by followers of Islam—the real troublemakers in the world.

Muslim acts of terror are like falling stars—they occur without warning and are quickly forgotten. A few days ago, a Muslim stabbed three people on a train in Germany. The assailant screaming “Allahu Akbar” as he carried out his unprovoked attacks. By the time I post this article on RR, this incident will have already vanished from the news feeds.

The recent attacks in Paris and Brussels should have made it impossible for Sadiq Khan to become the mayor of London. This was not some massive oversight on the part of the electorate. People are losing the will to resist the evil that drives the Islamic faith.

Events have become so predictable, it is only a brief matter a time before the new Muslim mayor of London starts attacking Israel. The capital of Great Britian has a GDP of $700 billion and I doubt six months will pass before Mr. Khan uses his office to apply economic pressure against the Jewish state.

Some people are complaining about being accused of racism for simply criticizing Israel or the Jews. What they don’t realize is that they are pawns in Satan’s long term goal of seeking to destroy God’s chosen people.

For decades the horrors of the Holocaust have prevented people from crossing the line into anti-Semitism. Nevertheless, it is evident that the devil is working toward making his final attempt to conquer Israel:

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it” (Zechariah 12:2-3).

A beneficial outcome of the persecution of the Jews is the prophesied future lifting of the veil from their hearts. At their darkest moment, the children of Israel will turn to the Lord Jesus and receive Him as the true Messiah. This is why God has made this solemn promise:

“But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice” (Deuteronomy 4:29-30).

–Todd

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America’s Most Dangerous Time

I once wrote the following in an article titled “Israel Betrayed by U.S.?”:

Israel today stands in the bull’s eye of rage. This is true in the case of being targeted by the Jewish state’s perennial antagonists, the Arab and Persian Islamist enemies. It is true in the case of the entire international community, whose constituent nations see Israel as the congestive blockage to regional and world peace. But it is the growing antagonism by United States presidential administration operatives that is most disconcerting while this beleaguered planet wobbles toward a time of unprecedented trouble.

As a matter of fact, that coming time of unparalleled strife that will bring all nations to Armageddon is termed “the time of Jacob’s trouble” by Isaiah the prophet: “Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7a).

And, it is Jacob’s trouble–the prophesied end-of-days dastardly treatment of Israel by the nations of earth–that will cause the God of heaven to bring them to Armageddon. This is what the prophet Joel foretells: “I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land” (Joel 3:2)…

Will America Betray Israel?

We come to the question “Israel Betrayed by U.S.?” The article’s title is in the form of a question because like so much of this American administration’s dealings, the “transparency” presidential candidate Barack Obama and then President Obama promised is not forthcoming. Obama’s intended dealing with Israel is wrapped in an impenetrable fog of political doublespeak…

Since the time of that writing, a number of years have passed. Mr. Obama began his administration almost from the very first day by treating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu like a White House exterminator–having him come in a door other than the front entrance reserved for dignitaries who are honored with official reception by the president.

The president, shortly after that first meeting with Netanyahu, abruptly left the prime minister and went to have a private dinner, presumably with his family. It was an undeniable snub.

This was apparently meant to be within keeping with his promise to have “the most transparent administration ever.” It was certainly transparent that this president has an utter disregard for Mr. Netanyahu and for Israel, our number-one ally in the Middle East, if not our top ally in the entire world.

Subsequent snubs and disrespectful attempts to bully the Israeli leader and the Jewish state are too numerous to get into. Obama’s attempts to intervene within the sovereign affairs of Israel have not abated as of this late hour in the Obama administration. In fact, they have increased dramatically. While there is less than nine months of his time as president remaining, Mr. Obama is said to be planning many interventions into Israeli autonomy.

In yet another audacious display of intrusion into the affairs of Israel’s dealings with its internal enemies–many of whom plot and carry out deadly attacks against Jewish citizens–American’s diplomatic enforcers are at work. Ordered to do so by Barack Obama, America’s State Department minions join with those determined to force Israel to bow to international demands in the matter of housing construction in volatile areas of contention.

One news item reports: WASHINGTON (AP) — Diplomats say the U.S. will endorse a tough new tone with Israel in an upcoming international report. The report is to take the Jewish state to task over settlements, demolitions and property seizures on land the Palestinians claim for a future state…

The harsh language marks a subtle shift. Washington has traditionally tempered statements by the so-called “Quartet” of mediators with careful diplomatic language…(Source: Matthew Lee and Bradley Klapper, “US to Take Tougher Tone on Israeli Settlements in New Report,” Associated Press, 5/7/16).

Early on in the first Obama administration, the pressure to force Israel to give in to diplomatic pressures of land for peace became a driving force in U.S./Israeli relations. The effort has only ramped up since that time. It is as if this president has an obsessive compulsion to impose his will before his time is ended in the White House.

My personal sense is that it is indeed the president’s compulsion that is in play. Because it is the nation Israel we are considering, however, there are also far more powerful intrigues involved. Ephesians 6:12 is at the center of this last minute drive to make the rearrangements that Israel’s greatest hater wants accomplished, it seems to me.

But, my personal sense of prophetic importance of what all of this vitriol pointed toward Israel means is of little consequence. What matters is what the prophetic Word of God says about His chosen nation and its destiny, both near-term and in the ultimate sense.

In that regard, the things we will see develop in these days and months leading up to the November election and beyond can be of profound significance. And in the America and the world vs Israel struggle, we can find little reassurance that anything good can come forth.

America has entered a most dangerous time.

–Terry