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Hundreds of Chinese-made air-defense missile launchers are expected to arrive to Iran within the coming weeks, despite Xi saying China “wouldn’t partake” in the ongoing conflict. This is another reminder the CCP is enabling Iran and its attacks on U.S. military assets. https://t.co/iLjEh95dYT

Philippines the next Ukraine ??? Duterte said it clearly years ago and it still hits hard today: “Remember that we do not have any quarrel with China. Americans are the ones pushing the Philippine government and eventually maybe start a war. And yet America has so many bases in the Philippines now. I am sorry for my country. I would reverse the situation.” US puppet Marcos is doing the exact opposite. Ousting the pragmatic Duterte faction so Washington can fully use the Philippines as the next Ukraine. Fighting China to the last Filipino.

Why did Persia fall to Arabic dominance? Could the West experience the same defeat? A civilization has already been conquered when its heirs preserve its monuments but think, speak, and behave in the culture of those who despise it. Iran offers a vivid illustration of that principle. The stone legacies of its ancient civilization still stand—Persepolis, the tomb of Cyrus, the rock reliefs of Naqsh-e Rostam, the fire temples and imperial inscriptions of the Achaemenids and Sasanians. These monuments are carefully preserved, studied, and even celebrated as national treasures. Yet the daily life of thought, speech, and belief among their heirs has long been shaped by another culture. The Persian language itself survives, but it is written in an Arabic script and saturated with Arabic vocabulary, especially in the domains of religion, law, philosophy, and high culture. The central concepts that organize society—divine law, the nature of prophecy, the hierarchy of religious authority, the calendar of sacred time, the very categories of purity and impurity—derive from the Arabic-Islamic tradition that arrived with the seventh-century conquests. In short: the monuments remain Persian; the language, the concepts, and the ruling ideas have for centuries been those of the civilization that once overran and despised the old Iranian order. —Peitharch