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Madeline Taylor, PhD's avatar

The world is a battlefield because of sociopathic and psychopathic men who are competing with one another for dominance. They don’t show any capacity to care about the millions of mothers, fathers, children, seniors, and non-combatant men who are anxious and terrified because the elephants are fighting and we’re the ants underfoot.

“Inshallah, may cooler heads prevail”…amen!

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Monnina's avatar

Yes. I do worry about the psycopathy of state male violence in war having been a victim of such state sanctioned violence as a child during the Cold War. And you are right to be concerned. Mass rape in war is a very effective killer on a delay switch of its victims, many of whom often go on to commit suicide in later years. A destroyer of families, as societal religious codes and conventional conservatism continue to shame and blame the victims. And silently poisons the wellspring of healthy cultural recovery roots of any community that is subjected to it for decades to come. Northern Ireland, where I currently live, being a case in point. My heart remains loyal to and broken for all everywhere who have suffered such violence, and those who are about to.

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Madeline Taylor, PhD's avatar

Is anyone concerned about what happens to women, children, and other vulnerable populations when men are warring with one another? I never hear anyone even mention civilian safety when discussing war…never. :(

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charlotte Pace's avatar

Agree...the only real victims of war are the innocents.

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Cindy Reid's avatar

That's because civilians are NOT safe

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Liz's avatar

Civilians are the pawns...look at Gaza. War hungry men do not care about women, children, or ANY of the civilians! Look at what trump has done with all the agencies that help the children, people with disabilities, and our veterans. You know, the president who said he would never start a war! I am so so sorry the people who voted for him because they believed his lies, he should be impeached just for that!!!! He intentionally misled the country!

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Bob Seemueller's avatar

It is official the US is a dictatorship, a lawless nation ruled by an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon who should be in prison for 136 years and should be paying $500 million in fines

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S S's avatar

This is a scandal. He misled American people

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SunShine's avatar

People were warned!

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Jodi's avatar

Now thats really the point. Everything Trump sold the American voter on during his campaign was a lie and he has does the opposite or gone to the extreme. We now have to wait to see how this plays out.

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Susan Robinson's avatar

This will not bode well for the world! I totally agree with you! War mongers in the US have always been paid by the war machine developed after WW11 and is a mainstay of their economy! The extreme Christian Nationalists are as bad as the extremist Islamist’s!

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Monnina's avatar

Yep. I have long since renamed our own horrible individual fanatical white supremacist Christian nationalists here in Northern Ireland The Caliban. In reference to their cultural mirroring of The Taliban with a very white hegemonic nod to Shakespeare.

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Nancy Peterson's avatar

I’m freaking out! Scared and worried. Friends who want to go on vacations they have planned for years, now they have no idea what to do. WTF Trump. Quit pissing in the corners! I thought it was I won’t get us in a war….well here we are! And for what reason? So stupid!

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Mikel S's avatar

What war? Were they going to vacation in Iran?

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Nancy Peterson's avatar

No, but it just doesn’t feel like a very safe time to travel overseas. I feel afraid for our world. We don’t need a war and Trump would be happy to get everyone to forget about his horrible, ridiculous parade. While Congress must approve war, what does it mean when we start dropping bombs in another country?

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Monnina's avatar
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Globalisation since the 1970s has created an interwoven chain between countries of both economic distribution as well as a cultural global playground. No one associated with wars, seemingly geographically far away, are necessarily safe from rogue cultural violence anywhere. This US action has just renewed a target for random rage attacks in unfamiliar places on anyone obviously Jewish, American or MAGA.

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Madeline Taylor, PhD's avatar

Mr. Ali, would you consider consulting with mental health experts like Bandy Lee, M. D. and some of her colleagues, on your Substack live? She writes on Substack. They’ve been accurately predicting Trump’s behavior since 2017 because they understand what motivates him psychologically. They might be able to help us understand what we might do to curb his dangerous effect on us citizens and on the world.

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Madeline Taylor, PhD's avatar

Biden doesn’t understand the sociopathic character of Netanyahu…we need to be educated to understand dangerous character types: anti-social personality, paranoid personality, and malignant narcissism. Books that can help are Disordered Minds, by Ian Hughes; and all The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump books by Bandy X. Lee, M.D.

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Jo Greenwood's avatar

You are absolutely right. The dehumanization of black, brown, and Islamic people is bearing bitter fruit. Please know that some of us consider this world a much richer place thanks to you folks. I would be terrified to live in an all white world. That would mean Maga has won, and I fear racists far more than people of another race.

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SJD's avatar

1 trillion%

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Anthony Franklin's avatar

There goes any trip to the holy Land...ugh. sarcasm here

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Dakota Kollar's avatar

Impeachable offense: it’s wildly unpopular by mass of Americans at large, and it’s simple to explain…presidents cannot unilaterally bring country to war without congressional authorization. Please god do something Jeffries!!

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Miguel Delgado's avatar

We live in a mad mad mad world!

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Martin jones's avatar

When the pilots were bombing were they wearing those silly MAGA hats? You Americans are funny 🤣.

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Mikel S's avatar

I feel safer or do you side with terrorist ? You libs will never be electable as long as you take the side of terrorists , criminals and illegals

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Cecile Quinlan's avatar

Yes, you made some very good points.

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Oz's avatar

It’s like there’s a heavenly halo of sun beams behind your head. It looks awesome

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