Getting Your War On

Most alarmingly, we are now seeing that the US Military officer corps is rife with Talibaptist Jihadists who see this war as a path to the rapture.

This needs to be removed from the military root and branch, and not just because is contrary to good faith and discipline, but because religious crusades always end up extremely brutal and cruel, even by the standards of the day.

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.

From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.

The MRFF is keeping the complainants anonymous to prevent retribution by the Defense Department. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to my request for comment.

One complainant identified themselves as a non-commissioned officer (NCO) in a unit currently outside the Iran combat zone but in Ready-Support status, deployable at any time. The NCO said they were Christian and emailed the MRFF on behalf of 15 troops, including at least 11 Christians, one Muslim, and one Jew. (Full email printed below.)

The NCO wrote to the MRFF that their commander “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”

If you think that making war will lead to the 2nd coming, you have no limits.

Espect to see atrocitys that make My Lai look like acakd-walk.

Also, we now have confirmation that it was the United States that blew up the girls' school in Iran, and what's more, the target was chosen by AI.

The Iranian elementary school building where scores of children were killed as the U.S. and Israel began their massive aerial campaign was on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site, multiple people familiar with the strike told The Washington Post.

The deadly attack occurred in the first few hours of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran — just as parents were hurrying to the two-story schoolhouse to take their kids home to safety — and killed at least 175 people, many of them children, according to Iranian state media.

It is still not clear why the building was hit, but one person familiar with the school strike said the building had been identified as a factory and had been an approved strike target. A second person familiar said there was an arms depot target located in the same area and did not know if the United States hit the school by mistake, or if U.S. officials had the wrong intelligence and thought the building was the arms depot.

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According to five people familiar with the issue, both the Israeli and U.S. militaries are using Palantir’s Maven to conduct operations. Maven is a battlefield intelligence platform. The U.S. version is powered in part by Anthropic’s AI, Claude.

(emphasis mine)

Well, now we know why Anthropic wanted to restrict the Pentagon's use of their technology. They knew that something like this would happen.

Unlike Palantir, I think that the folks at Anthropic understood that using their technology was reckless and its use could land them in the Hague. 

This is not a surprise. 

Also, it appears that SecDef Hegseth shut down a Pentagon program to minimize civilian casualties, because ……… I don't know. ……… Maybe the drunkard thinks that killing little kids is macho?

On a tactical level, it appears that Iran forces have been extremely successful in striking US and Israeli radars and similar systems, so much so that commercial satellite surveillance firm Planet Labs has been pressured into turning off access to imagery from the region.

It turns out that Trump and the Pentagon do have their limits though.  They were very miffed at Israel's targeting Iran's oil infrastructure.  

So it IS all about the oil, huh? 

Speaking of oil, it's above $100.00 a barrel, and Trump has decided to release 172,000,000 barrels from the already-depleated US oil reserves.

I don't think that it will do much, as 20% of the world's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran has attacked least 6 ships in the past 24 hours in the Strait.

Oil is going nowhere but up. 

Even more concerning is the fact that the US bombed an Iranian desalination plant, and Iran Iran retaliated by striking a desalination plant in Bahrain.

Both acts are unequivocally war crimes, and serious damage could result in the collapse of whole cities in a matter of just a few weeks.

Well, that's it for now.  Pleasant dreams.