Alastair Crooke and Chris Hedges 8 mins total

In George Galloway’s opening this past Sunday, he said he no longer thought Trump to be a Neo- Caligula … no … the name Crassus suited Trump … perfectly. He made no mention or explanation of why or even who or what ‘Crassus’ was and why he felt it suited Trump perfectly, while he had explained to his audience previously, who Caligula was. Of course I immediately researched – y’all probably already knew. From Britannica :

In 55 bce the Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus was elected to a second consular term alongside Pompey the Great. Crassus and Pompey had previously served as co-consuls with much enmity between them. Crassus resented his colleague for robbing him of a triumph after he successfully quelled Spartacus’s slave revolt in 71 bce. In 60 bce Crassus and Pompey had entered an uneasy alliance brokered by Gaius Julius Caesar, motivated in part by their respective interests in obtaining certain provincial governorships. The consular elections of 55 bce solidified these aims. They engineered the passage of a law that secured for Pompey a multi-year proconsular appointment in Hispania and an appointment in Syria for Crassus. Crassus, it seems, was overjoyed at this legislation: he was an enormously wealthy man, but the historian Plutarch describes him as having been consumed by a lust for gold and glory. Crassus would not be outshined by the military exploits of either Pompey or Caesar, and he saw the Syrian province as a gateway to the riches of the East. Unfortunately for him, those riches were safeguarded by the Parthians, with whom Rome had honoured treaties since Pompey’s ventures into the region a decade earlier.

Well… I hope you understand why I was beginning to agree with George … not going to spoil it for you … here’s the link …read for yourself.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Carrhae

Careful though, you may gain an interest in reincarnation, esp. after you read of the Battle of Carrhae at the link. Also, checkout the ‘Closing Thought at end of Naked Cap’s article I linked above (someone else was curious regarding George’s remark about Crassus on Sunday.

Yes, Donald J. Trump is Crassus incarnate … or, reincarnate … as you like it, of course.

periol, thanks so much for this!

Richard Medhurst – israel is restraing it’s people from LEAVING

First part of what promises to be a two part series:

The US took 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. It took 8 days to replace Khamenei with Khamenei.

Hua Bin provides in depth insight into the Chinese people’s view of the war.

https://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/what-are-the-chinese-saying-about

Alon Mizrahi,

For two years I’ve claimed here: Hezbollah is the best guerilla force in the world, potentially in history. Idiots mocked. Now those video are beginning to come out of Lebanon, and there are going to be so many of them, with tens, hundreds and possibly thousands of IDF soldiers torn to bits as this expands and drags on. The absolutely last and final Zionist invasion of Lebanon

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https://x.com/alon_mizrahi/status/2031788437381267922