{"id":1179,"date":"2023-10-21T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/21\/the-state-of-things-when-the-leader-of-the-free-world-is-a-puppet\/"},"modified":"2023-10-21T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T13:50:40","slug":"the-state-of-things-when-the-leader-of-the-free-world-is-a-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/21\/the-state-of-things-when-the-leader-of-the-free-world-is-a-puppet\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Things When the ‘Leader’ of the ‘Free World’ is a Puppet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I asked Dr. Vito Caiati, historian, whether Donald Trump's being in office would have made any difference to the present geopolitical mess, and this is what he wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

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As for the present miserable state of the world, I think that had Trump remained in office neither the war in the Ukraine nor the war in the Middle East would have occurred, or if the former occurred, it would have been resolved on the basis of a territorial compromise concerning the Crimea and robust autonomy for the eastern, Russian majority oblasts.  Leaving aside the origins of the conflict (US interference in the internal politics of the Ukraine and the expansion of NATO eastward), Trump would have put Zelensky and company on tight rein. As for Israel, can we doubt that the appeasement of the Obama-Biden regime towards Iran encouraged the reemergence of terrorism? Now, the plan is to provide public support to Israel, while privately restraining her once again to conduct the war in a way that would deny the complete victory that she requires. With Trump, the war would have not occurred, and if it did, he would not have tied Israel\u2019s hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the danger of WWIII, it appears to me that the Ukraine mess is a potential trigger for it.  There is no way that the Ukraine can defeat Russia, and I fear that a protracted conflict could lead to further American involvement and the real chance of a great power clash.<\/span><\/p>\n

With regard to demons and such, I call your attention to what appeared on the Vatican Synod website this week (page 29): \u201cWhat is a merciful heart? It is a heart on fire for the whole of creation, for humanity, for the birds, for the animals, for demons, for all that exists.\u201d Thus, the diabolical evil that first showed its face with the Pachamama<\/a> desecration of St. Peter\u2019s advances further in the Bergoglian Church.    <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I agree in the main, but Caiati's final sentence prompts me to ask: Is Bergoglio proposing mercy for demons in which he believes? Or is the truly Bergoglian termiticism and diabolism due to his tacit denial of the reality of demons?<\/span><\/p>\n

No doubt demons are creatures, but does Bergoglio and his fellow clerical termites believe in their existence? I don't know but I suspect he doesn't and they don't. How many Catholic priests today believe in the  preternatural? I suspect it is a minority.  The preternatural is the sphere within which demonic agents operate. It lies between the natural  and the supernatural.  See Ralph Weimann, Sacramentals: Their Meaning and Use<\/em>, p. 196: "In the period after the Second Vatican Council, and under the influence of rationalism, it was increasingly considered 'unscientific' to speak about angels and even more unscientific to speak about demons."<\/span><\/p>\n

At a time when the RCC should be standing as a bulwark against the anti-civilizational forces of Chinese Communism, Islamism, and  Leftism, it is transforming itself under the termitic influence of Bergoglio & Co. into just another pile of secular leftist junk. <\/span><\/p>\n

But how could anyone in this enlightened age believe in such medieval superstitions as the existence of demons?  Hasn't humanity finally put paid to this old nonsense?  Maybe not. Maybe there is no naturalistic explanation of the depth and depravity of human behavior. Perhaps an adequate explanation must posit the preternatural. See my Substack<\/em> article, The Holocaust Argument for God's Existence<\/a> wherein I write:<\/span><\/p>\n

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As a sort of inference to the best explanation we can say that moral evil in its extreme manifestations has a supernatural source. It cannot be explained adequately in naturalistic terms.  There is an Evil Principle (and Principal) the positing of which is reasonable. The undeniable reality of evil has  a metaphysical ground.  Call it Satan or whatever you like.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In that passage I am using 'supernatural' to cover both the supernatural proper and the preternatural. 'Preternatural' would have been the better, because more specific, word choice. But then I would have had to explain 'preternatural' which would have lengthened the piece. Brevity is the soul of Stack<\/em> and not just of blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I would like you to take a gander at this Daily Mail article<\/a> and rub your noses in recent Hamas-Islamist barbarity. Could the source of this evil be merely natural?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I asked Dr. Vito Caiati, historian, whether Donald Trump's being in office would have made any difference to the present geopolitical mess, and this is what he wrote: As for the present miserable state of the world, I think that had Trump remained in office neither the war in the Ukraine nor the war in … Continue reading “The State of Things When the ‘Leader’ of the ‘Free World’ is a Puppet”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,180,93,50,119,163,431,29,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-decline-of-the-west","category-demonology","category-good-and-evil","category-islamism","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-political-equivalentism","category-political-ponerology","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}