Pragmatist2025

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Did Aristotle ever have to deal with a violent Islamic caliphate?

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Not that I am aware of. If they cannot be negotiated with and will make no concessions, what is the solution in your opinion, given that both their remaining military assets and regime(?) are extremely decentralized?

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Sounds like something a pragmatist would ask

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Well…that phrase is very non-specific, yes?

At this point, who is the regime, how is it changed, and what does the new one look like?

I am not going to read through the other ~10 threads about this guy because I had really never heard of him until the talk of his resignation. I watched the interview. This guy is REALLY MAGA. If anyone thought he was insulting President Trump then you didn’t watch it. If anything, he confirmed what most of the President’s supporters believe about him. He basically says that the Iranian regime is scared of Trump, they call off their proxies concerning American interests when he is in office, and this ‘war’ does NOT have the hallmarks of the President’s beliefs concerning war or Iran.

If the things he says about Israeli ‘intelligence’ is true, then a lot of things begin to make sense…such as the President’s recent post about Israel bombing energy facilities and the comments last year when he said “they (Israel) don’t know what the frick they’re doing” (during the 12 day war).

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I'm not opposed to the theory that 6M is too high, but it's clearly at least 1M I'll ask my question from page 1 again What level of genocide is acceptable to avoid focusing so much efforts on this particular debunking?

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I have read a ton of books on WW1 & 2. Several well sourced guys come in with figures between 1 & 2 million (that they directly attribute to the Nazis). But yes, 2 million or 6 million, it is sort of a strange thing to haggle over. Another item that isn’t discussed as much is how (and why) they died. The answers to those questions do not just reveal that Hitler was psychotic but also very stupid.

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So the Lebanese government started rounding up and attacking Hezbollah themselves. It's either that or let Israel keep bombing civilian infrastructure, which is what they were doing.

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Just to be clear, who was bombing civilian infrastructure? (and where?)

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Full-steam ahead toward Iran's UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

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This sounds great in theory.

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So, what did he say regarding U.S. soldiers raping persian women? That seems to be a crazy thing to make up for a clickbait headline. There had to be some mention of raping persian women. If not, WTF.

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He never said or even hinted that he believed that would happen. They said this has historically happened to other nations when they surrendered unconditionally. This could be the potential mindset of Iranians who hate Americans or in general the paranoia of the unknown when ceding total control to the enemy. i.e. Why would they surrender (if they believed this way)? …at least this was my inference.

It took off from the notion that they found it kinda crazy that a call to unconditional surrender was made so quickly. That anything else than that now would be considered weakness from an international perspective.

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Do your mental gymnastics with it as you see fit

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No mental gymnastics. Hyperbole on his part, yes. The clip you showed is not the whole interview.

I actually listened to the entire interview. He didn’t say what your headline says in the way the headline implies…the Trump inclusion is just click bait bullshite.