The World Needs to Unite Against USA

I believe I had read that the operative philosophy governing the size of the American Military Forces is that they must be sufficient to for defeating all of the other military forces on Earth put together.  You know, I would think that the rest of the World might find that troublesome.  Now, yes, before the Trump Administration, the previous Presidents along with bipartisan support made what seemed like sincere arguments that convinced some other important World Powers that America was using its Military colossus altruistically in their support.  For instance, it was argued to Britain and the EU that America only wished to overbalance Russia for the sake of European Freedom, and, likewise, in Asia that overbalancing China was necessary for securing Japan, the Chinese breakaway province of Formosa and Australia.  But over time, and especially since the Collapse of the Soviet Union, when America now no longer has to pretend to be the Good Guys in contrast to the Communist Bad Guys, well, American motives are much more worrisome to the World Community.   For example, presently America seems poised for war against China over the issue of the Chinese buildup in the Sea of China, where America claims that it only wants to be able to keep the International Trade Routes open and secure.  However, the capacity of the American Navy to close any sea route in the World has not been in question since World War II.  So it is the Chinese who have a legitimate concern about America being able to shut down the Trade Routes.   Such concern by the Chinese seems to be warranted given the fact that America increasingly is using Economic and Trade Warfare against other World Powers for increasingly less and less significant excuses.  Yes, Economic and Trade Sanctions might certainly be interpreted as being only political prods, but realistically we can suppose that if Products and Services provided by one particular Nation are barricaded from the World Market, that other Nations could step in and take up the slack.  For instance, when sanctions were slapped against the sale of Iranian petrol, the price for America’s own ‘fracking’ oil spiked high enough for it to become a highly profitable venture when before the sanctions it was barely marginal.  But even when the use of Trade War is purely and sincerely political, still it must be worrisome in the sense that simply the principle of ‘Trade War’ militates against the cohesion and viability of a Global Economic System where everybody is a supposed to be a Winner.   Indeed, that kind of all-inclusive guiding principle is one that the Trump Administration has roundly rejected, and now counters by undisguisedly maintaining that America is seeking World Dominance¹.   After all, isn’t “Make America Great Again” harking back to the time just after the World had suffered the devastating double body blows of the First and Second World Wars², whereby America, whose mainland with its well fed population had remained untouched by any bomb or even a single hostile foreign bullet, was able to claim by a kind of default the honor of being “King of the World”.  America climbed to the top of its “Greatness” over the vast piles of the World’s dead.   American Manufacturers and Enterprise competed against the war-torn economies that had been stripped of their hard currencies, and where much of their industrial capacities had been bombed out, and where mostly only women survived to provide any kind of Work Force.   So when America says it wants to be great again, are they indeed arguing that all other Major World Powers should have their currencies stripped away, their industries destroyed, and their work forces decimated?  Well, we can hardly suppose Trump himself could put together such a logical sequence of thoughts, but, still, it must be troubling to the rest of the World that the Populism that brought Trump to Power in America may still exist long after Trump has been tossed out in disgrace for other lesser reasons.   America’s next Populist President, coming to power after America’s better institutions had already been shaken, may have more success in consolidating a program for implementing the destruction of the rest of the World which the American’s would see only in terms of assuring America’s renewed Ascendency. 

Yes, this presentation of America as being the World’s most immediate threat is in stark contrast to our old understandings.   America had been perceived through the 20^th Century as being almost naively Idealistic, though there seemed a perceptible evolution where Ideals became less and less substantial but where more and more cynical policies were implemented that flew the banners of Ideal Justifications, such as by especially targeting Communist Regimes where specific American Corporate Interests had a stake at the table.   But now even the pretense to  Idealism is gone, and we can see that America is taking such steps that Historically had signaled trouble before.    For instance, if we may look at Roman History, at the period of Rome’s expansion into Gaul and the Iberian Peninsula, the Roman Administrations had made themselves appealing to those whom they were invading by extending the promise of Roman Rights and Citizenship.  For instance, one story about Julius Caesar sticks with me, that after he conquered Gaul and established terms of Peace, a delegation of Gauls came down to Rome where several within their group had been attacked by a Roman Mob which apparently was still stirred up by war time propaganda or even perhaps personal animosities.   Well, Caesar, who worried more for the integrity of his Imperial Expansion then for his polling numbers in the Capital, came down hard on the side of the Gauls, which underlined to everybody in the Empire that all Roman Citizens, no matter where they lived within its sprawling expanses, were equal before the Roman Law and that receiving the status of Roman Citizenship was not just an empty charade.   So Rome grew and for a while prospered.   But add a few hundred years to History and Rome took to treating newly conquered areas as Occupation Zones where all those who could not successfully run and hide were captured and enslaved to become product in Rome’s most flourishing market, the Slave Market that fed into the Plantations, the Mines, and the Gladiator Sports and Entertainment Industries.    Then as the Rome’s Legions weakened, because there were no longer very many Roman Free Men qualified to enlist for them, the borders were hardened, and the Expansionist Ideal of making the Entire World a Land of Roman Citizens died out. Rome then only wanted to hold onto and protect their current holdings.  Well, as far as the Forces of History go, if you aren’t moving forward, then you are moving backwards.  Rome became unsustainable and it collapsed.   

Then we have the example of Athenian Ascendency after their victories in the Greco-Persian Wars.  They had set themselves up as having been the saviors of all the other Greek City States³.   We can clearly see the parallels between Athens after the Greco-Persian Wars and the United States after the Great Wars of the 20^th Century.  And like America, Athens almost immediately began to weaken its position of influence by being plainly exploitative, such as by demanding tribute and contributions from all the other Greek States for the “Common Defense” but using much of the treasure for aggrandizing Athens.  The Golden Age of Pericles was financed from every coffer in Greece except that of Athens itself.   Eventually Greece rebelled and we had the Peloponnesian War.  When we read Thucydides, who was himself an Athenian, it is difficult not to root for the Spartan League, who were themselves militaristic slave drivers.  So that is how bad Athens was perceived to be when even Sparta could look good by comparison.   Oh, incidentally, Sparta won.  But it was a pyrrhic victory.  All of the Greek States had been so severely weakened, it allowed for the ascendency of the Macedonian hinterlands which would bring forth the Alexandrian scourges from which the World still suffers today (see note 3).  

Of course, citing these two examples may actually be arguing against my premise that the World should stand up to America.  Yes, Rome collapsed, but it collapsed into a sea of Barbarism.  We would scarcely want the same thing for ourselves.  It would be like bringing down America only so the entire Global Infrastructure could be pulled down with it, which would cause a massive die-off of I would estimate to be in excess of 4 billion people.  So, no, we don’t want to get rid of the ugly Deck Chairs by sinking the Titanic.  But the example of Athens is less extreme, and perhaps it is only the fault of the Victorious Peloponnesian League in not consolidating their win by establishing a better unified confederacy with a unified military command and one distinct foreign policy in relationship to the Outside World, whereby rogue States like Macedonia could easily have been contained.  

That reminds me of America’s own Great Civil War, which was a Constitutional Crisis where the lessons learned were largely wasted because they weren’t subsequently written into the Constitution which had caused the problems to begin with.   You see, America was a federation of States that were autonomous even to the extent that the individual States kept their own Military Regiments.  And the States were permitted to indulge notions of State’s Rights, which were not explicitly rejected by the Constitution which had replaced the previous “Articles of Federation”.   The combination of States Rights with each state having its own Army invited a War between the States.  So much for the much vaunted ‘Wisdom of America’s Founding Fathers’ who should already be tainted in our regard because even back as they lived, the institution of Slavery was being renounced throughout the rest of the Civilized World.   

Of course, after the Civil War there were reforms to the Military which placed even the State Guard and Reserve Units under the Central Government’s Chain of Command.  Also, in the Army itself, recruits from every state were intentionally mixed together in order to create the sense in the Soldiers of being an ‘American’ Army.  Indeed, the social fact we have today where nearly every American sees his or her self as being an American first and a citizen of a particular State second may well be due to the fact that so many American’s throughout the 20^th Century had been processed through the ‘American’ Army.  As they said after World War I, “You can’t get the boys back on the farm once they’ve seen Paris”.  The Greater View eclipses the parochial one.  

So, perhaps we can see the World today in that same context, where America, just one state among many of the World States, has this State’s Rights fetish and has been allowed to create its own vast Army… and Navy… and Air Force… and the Marines⁴.   The World needs to come to terms with the idea that it has become necessary to unite for the sake of Collective Security.  In the Globalized World there are no longer any Outside External Threats.  All threats are now Internal and should be viewed as insurrectional and rebellious.  America wishing to go it alone and profit from the rest of the World’s loses should be viewed as an interference in commerce and as an exceptionally large instance of disturbing the common public peace.   In order to institutionalize its Unity the World must advance along several fronts.   First, the World must adopt a single currency which is not the American Dollar.  Second, the World will have to create its own Army with a unified Chain of Command.  The United Nations needs its own teeth and claws.  Third, the United Nations must be reformed, especially in regards to tossing out the Security Council with it enshrined American Veto Power.  If America wants out of the U.N., then, fine.  And the the U.N. should clear out of America in order to assure that America and Americans cannot obstruct the daily business of the U. N. Diplomats.  Move everybody and everything out and demolish the Building, so it isn’t allowed to stand as a target for American derision and mockery.  Allow the most respected Country to host the U.N, which ever Country that might be.   Fifth, institute some basis of an International Language, which a World Conference of Linguists can design, probably built from a skeleton of English, since it is already so prevalent, but cleaned up of all grammatical, syntactical and spelling inconsistencies and unnecessary complexities and elaborations.   But the Language Conference might be decide to start over fresh with a blank slate   I had read of that one ‘Constructed’ Language that was created years ago to be a Universal Language, Esperanto, and that because of its intuitive structure it was considered very easy and people could pick it up a great deal more quickly than the traditional languages that come encumbered by thousands of complexities that defy justification or easy comprehension.  One of the problems with Esperanto was that it was heedless of so much of the World’s store of what we could call “Really Cool Words and Phrases”.  Some words just have a certain ring to them, which already cause them to easily cross international boundaries.  And any designed language for be vast enough to allow for changes of mood.   I always enjoyed the quote by Charles V, “I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse”.   But designing and creating a language would only be its start.  One has to let that genie out of the bottle.  No language can be a fixed standard for long.  What you teach in the schools will echo back strangely from the streets.   Regional variations will crop up.   The best that can be hoped for that by flooding the Global Media with the same exemplar uses of the New Language, people will all begin to talk in the same phrases with the same usages.   For instance, France, at the turn of the 20^th Century had still been rife with hundreds of patois from every region and people could hardly understand each other, but after just a few decades of Radio and then TV, even with the interruption of the two Wars, the French Language suddenly just unified – suddenly everyone in France was speaking French.  This is what I hope for the World, with whatever language the World decides.  But the World will need a Common Language if it is to have a Common Army without organic loyalties to certain home regions.   Even China, in regards to just itself realizes the importance of a single language and has therefore implemented a program of making Mandarin the common language of the Chinese, with its simplified ideographic script which is still a hundred times more complicated to learn than is necessary⁵.   But perhaps our most instructive example in regards to Language is India, who after tossing out the much hated and despised English Colonial Masters, nonetheless retained English as its effective Common Administrative Language, in order to assure that no single Indian State could secure an ascendency over all the others by imposing its own provincial tongue on the entire Sub-Continent.  The use of English, a language that nobody would have preferred but which was already widely known among the Bureaucratic Government Service Classes, created a Level Playing Field.   So, yes, a Global Civilization would have to do its level best to create that same kind of Linguistic Level Playing Field among all the World’s Peoples.  It would also be a huge Artistic Poetic Opportunity.  Finally songwriters would not have to strain quite so hard to come up with words that almost rhyme.  

Anyway, with just those 5 Changes we would see within just a generation or two or, three the first true World Civilization.  Maybe America could be brought into it, perhaps as reluctantly as the Southern Rebel Slave States came back into the present United States, only so they could drag their feet and foment discord for the next two centuries, or America, unless deemed to be as enthusiastic as the rest, could be cordoned off.  Maybe a Wall could be built, but for keeping the Americans in.   Then there is the problem with the American Client States, and those Nations that have traditionally been everybody else’s enemies.  For instance, Britain is both an American Client and, when one reviews European History, a seemingly relentless enemy to the Continent it floats up against.  When Britain had found it impractical to dominate the Continent with land armies, it settled into a kind of diabolic methodology of pitting the various European Powers against one another in order to keep them all weak.  Today’s Friend would be Tomorrow’s Foe according to whatever the momentary Balance of Power happened to be.⁶   Japan holds the same relationship to Asia, but is younger in its role.   Britain’s “100 Years  War” was in the 14^th and 15^th Centuries, one of the most salient events being that the English burned a French Virgin at the stake, the heroic Jeanne D’Arc.  There the English learned the high cost of fighting land battles at the terminal ends of precarious supply lines.  The Japanese only learned that lesson recently in the 20^th Century, after having brutally and callously predated all across East Asia and then being run out and back to its Island.  Almost the entire Asian Continent, for all their differences, agree on one thing, that they all loath Japan, not because they  morally and consciously chose to, but simply from a visceral response to their recent History, and are suspicious of ever trusting them again, as I suppose all Europeans must feel about England.   However, it is a healthy sign for Asia and Japan that Japan sided with Asia against America with the TPP Accords.  It is disquieting, however, that Britain has once again declared War against Europe with its rebellion against and withdraw from the EU.  Perhaps never having committed to the Euro was a sign that sinister and conniving England never had any real intent toward forging a working European Unity and only saw its EU membership in terms of assuring some high quarterly returns for a few of its big banks, and once their investments bore their profits then they could pull the plug and short-sale their way out the Continent, and make as much money going down as they did going up⁷.   But perhaps England will be saved by its ability to calculate its own advantages.  Now that it is clear that America is no reliable Patron, England might decide that going with Europe is better than going it alone.  After all, we must suppose that if the World finds the Will and Determination to stand up to and isolate America, it seems certain that America’s Faithful Clients will be isolated out also.  So Britain and Japan have choices to make.   I would be afraid that Israel is inseparably married to America whether it likes it or not⁸.  However, I shouldn’t assume that Israeli Politics is as monolithically conservative as I have been portraying it, though I should wonder how any Jew whose family was not in Palestine prior to the Zionist surge that started in the mid-nineteenth Century can have the balls to claim a right to take up Palestinian Land with the argument that it is their own ancestral heritage, even while they still speak their Hebrew with a Yiddish Accent from Amsterdam, Kiev, Brooklyn or Warsaw.   Perhaps Israel’s and Americas other Clients will grow more and more disenchanted with their Deals with the American Devil because the Terms of the Contract for their Souls has been revising less and less to their advantage.  For instance, America used to give Guaranteed Zero Interest Loans⁹ to its Clients for the Retail Costs of weapons systems that the Clients were permitted to manufacture themselves at Wholesale.   They could keep the difference between their own Wholesale costs and the Retail Prices they would charge themselves, which would be equal to whatever was written on the American checks.   This was a very popular system for the Israeli Arms Makers, and therefore the primary reason for the growth of the Pro-Israeli Lobby in America which was funded with those proceeds.¹⁰   But American Politicians under pressure from their own local Arms Dealers and Manufacturers were now stipulated in their Loan Agreements with their Clients that they buy specific Weapon’s Systems from specific American Retailers, thus entirely cutting  their Clients out of the ‘action’.  I supposed the American Arms Merchants promised to continue giving the Politicians the same ‘skim off’ that the Israelis and others had been shelling over, which has been made a whole lot easier since the Supreme Court legalized domestic bribery (see note 10).  Europe now insists that every NATO Weapon’s system must contain a certain amount of European Content.  South Korea and Japan are also bulking at America only giving away Free Weapons.  You can’t eat a Free Weapon or use a Free Weapon to buy a yacht or bid for a Matisse or a Picasso.  Oh, wait, I have heard that the Government in Afghanistan turns around and sells the free shipments of American Weapons Systems.  It’s selfish for America to think it is the only People entitled to make money off of war.  But, yes, America seems to be becoming too stingy and greedy to maintain its Client Network.  Besides, all that money presently going toward enriching the American Arms Trade is only adding to the deficit.  Sooner or later the bill for all that will come due and the American Dollar will collapse.  

Perhaps the most cogent reason why the World should take careful and deliberate steps now to isolate away from America is exactly because the dollar is certain to collapse someday.  It would be best for the World to face that inevitable crisis now, while they still have their own Markets, Economies and Currencies.  It will be far worse if they wait tobe taken by surprise later.  Remember how sudden the 2008 Economic World Crisis struck.  It happened practically overnight.

         

¹  Though Trump magnanimously concedes that every country owes it to themselves to conduct War against every other Country, even while nobody expects anybody but America to win such battles.

² I believe that future Historians will come to see World War I and World War II as a single conflict that had been suspended and put on hold in 1918 owing to the facts at the time that all of the Great Powers except America had already buried the flower of their fighting manhood, and that their civilian populations were being devastated by the Spanish Flu.  Once the Flu cleared up and another generation of young men grew up and took their places on the set, the fighting picked up again almost immediately.   

³ Though Persia was actually the more Civilized Power and probably would have been far better for overall World commerce and development. Also, had Greece at that time been put under Persian Administration it would have saved the World some centuries later from the devastating depredations inflicted by Alexander the Great, which so much weakened Persia that it never fully recovered which allowed for the Muslim Persian Conquests of the 7^th Century, where basically nomadic barbarian tribes were able to ride out of the Arabian desert and subjugate a once Great and exceptionally Moral Civilization, a subjugation that continues on to this day, though with the delusional support of even the Persian-Iranian People.  One can only shake one’s head and wonder at it.  After all, the Persians had had Zarathustra, arguably the most Moral Religious Leader in History, and they traded him for a foreign prophet that was foisted on them at the point of a Sword.  Persia had been far greater under their own Religion than they ever would be while being held as second class citizens by the Arabs.  Even today Saudi Arabia would destroy Iran if it had the chance.  Iran should respond by going back to their original Religion where World Righteousness had had its first beginnings. If they wish to continue to regard the Arab Prophet favorably, giving him the respect they think his due, well, that would be all well and good. But why do they have to renounce their own Prophet in order to bow down before another?  If Humility and Self-Effacement were the primary virtues then it would be self-evident that the Iranians are the Most Virtuous People in today’s World.  Everything in their Ancient Religion and Culture that would rightly give them a sense of pride and a warranted feeling of self-esteem, they have renounced and turned their back on, while they follow a Religion of a people who despise them and wish them all dead.  Well, I hope I am exaggerating.    

⁴ The Marines, whatever they are.  Someone needs to explain why the Marines even need to exist. We could understand the Marines back in the days when they were contingents of Troops that were used as land support for American Ships that docked in hostile ports, but nowadays the Marines are deployed in exactly the same way as the Army is deployed, and for exactly the same missions.  That goes for Seal Team Six too.  It seems that the American Military is just needlessly multiplying its Organizations, probably in order to open up Career Opportunities for thousands of duplicated Officers that aren’t strictly necessary.  If America wanted to provide Jobs on the Public Payroll, then rather than bloating the Military, more assets could go toward Infrastructure and Social Services. Also being a Medical Professional on the Public Payroll might come with less cases of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome than being a professional mercenary who, when not inflicting outrages, is being inflicted against.  I hear that the Military is developing a new medication designed to reduce Post-Traumatic Stress.  It is a pill that soldiers take when they come back from a mission, after they have been debriefed.  The pill wipes out short term memory going back a few days, or that is what it is supposed to do… they’re still working on it.  The idea is that what a Soldier doesn’t remember won’t hurt him, and, inversely, well, unless a soldier can forget what his Country made him do, it is likely to have a terrible psychological impact on himself and the family and society he returns to.         

⁵ With the phonetic languages that have alphabets it takes only a few years to teach little children how to read any word, and then it becomes only a problem of teaching them what all the words they hear and read mean.  But with the Chinese Ideograms, being able to read words is a lifetime labor, and may account for China’s inability to attain to any high degree of manufacturing quality, as not only do their workers not fully understand the written instructions placed before them, but that we can expect that many of the engineers are also scratching their heads and wondering what certain 22 stroke words mean.  For example, we can site the Baby Milk Poisonings in China a few years ago.  Are we to believe that certain Chinese businessmen with the concurrence of their workers were able to deliberately concoct poison baby milk which would kill babies and would then be traced back to them, leading to their disgrace and imprisonment, or would it be easier to believe that some supply clerk in the supply chain somewhere got a character wrong that represented a hundred 50 kilo sacks of some kind of white powder, and since the character one clerk would trip up on was probably so obscure that other clerks would trip over it too, that it went unchecked until there were dead babies all over China.  The Chinese are not a monstrous people, but their language is a monster to learn.    

⁶  As evil as were Britain’s designs, their cunning and calculated evil may have been less damaging than America’s stupid, blundering, and clumsy evil.   You see, Britain retained no permanent ‘Client States’.  They focused on the goal of assuring that all rival powers remained equally weak.  America, on the other hand, seems intent upon creating insuperably powerful Clients which therefore become powerful enough to be threats in their own right even to America.  For instance, I can’t imagine how America could mobilize and deploy enough troops and equipment to launch a successful punitive expedition against its Client Israel.  America, in effect, created a monster.   The same process is now going forward with Arabia, the Chinese provincial island of Formosa, and South Korea.  Also, since America has sworn loyalty oaths to all of its little Clients, if any of these Countries, which are independent and autonomous Nation States, grow frenzied or feverish because of their possession of Weapons Systems they could never have procured on their own, and instigate an attack against any other significant World Power, well, America would automatically be dragged into the conflict.  Does America really want Israel or Formosa or South Korea to be able to Declare War for the United States?  America has given them the military power and the diplomatic assurances that would allow them to.  Britain, to my recollection, never made that same mistake.  Even with World War I the British were the last Great Power to get locked in by some silly alliance.     

⁷ Perhaps one of the most destructive weapons in Capitalism’s arsenal is the form of trading known as the Short Sale, or Selling Short.  It allows Capitalists to make money in declining markets.  What they do is they ‘borrow’ a block of stock equities or commodities, and then instantly sell them, and then wait for the price of these goods or equities to decline, so that they can buy them back at the lower price and return what they borrowed, pocketing the difference.  Small traders are institutionally forbidden from being able to sell short, as it would create havoc in the Market if everybody were allowed to bet profitably on the Market collapsing, and so only the largest Banks and Investment Firms are allowed to make Dooms Day Profits.   One would think that it is the larger Banks and Investment Firms that should be forbidden to do Short Selling, because it is they who are large in influential enough to cause a Crash they could make a profit from.  For instance, in 2001 when the Tech Bubble Burst and the Market lost 400 Billion Dollars in one day, people asked where all that money went.  Well, it went into the pockets of the Big Investment Houses who bought up every tech option on the Street before pushing the Nasdaq over the cliff.   Oh, one can understand a lot about a Declining Market by understanding Short Sales.  For instance, Markets seldom drop precipitously and linearly because the Short Traders have to jump in at some point, where they ‘pick their bottom’ and buy up the shares they need to settle their Short Contracts.   If many Short Traders pick about the same “bottom” then all that ‘price target selected buying’ causes a momentary leveling off, or even creates a brief climb or up-tic in the Market.   Such interruptions in a systemic collapse of a market are called “dead cat bounces”, or false floors.  I wish I had read about it first.  I had learned about it the hard way.

⁸  We can only smile when we imagine how pleased the Religiously Conservative Zionist Jews must be that their comrades in arms against the rest of the World will be a bunch of bigoted Christian Evangelicals who with one breath will glorify the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as the Chosen People and admit that Christians might only stand a chance of surviving Armageddon and the Day of Judgment by virtue of fighting side by side with Israel, and yet they will still insist that the Jews will go to Hell for not believing in a Christ who would be willing to overlook Sin for the sake of his own self-aggrandizement.  I would suppose that the Israeli State and Media go to incredible lengths to prevent America’s Red Neck Evangelicals from finding out what many Israelis really think of them.  As for the Christian Evangelicals who suppose their alliance with the Jews in some Last Battle would in any way impress an All Mighty God who wouldn’t, by divine definition, need their help, well, these Gentile Evangelicals should get serious as to what the God of the Old Testament must have intended by making the Descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob the Chosen People.  It is in their Blood Line!   These Evangelicals should have no trouble understanding that it is a Racial Distinction, but this time they are the ones who are the ‘wrong’ Race… the shoe feels tighter when it’s on the other foot, doesn’t it, Billy Bob?   Nothing Jesus ever said and nothing Paul ever said (not that Paul counts) was intended to incorporate Christians into the umbrella coverage of Jewish Chosen-ness.   Indeed, in the Book of Acts where we find mention that Paul was given a dispensation by a Council of Jewish Christians for establishing Christian Churches among the Gentiles, it was explicitly understood that there would continue to be the distinction between Jew and Gentile.  The groups were understood to be separate and in no way established a Community of Faith.  In short, the Jewish Christians did not forbid Paul from taking money from the Gentiles, a percentage of which he skimmed back to the Official Jewish Church, a fact also mentioned in the Book of Acts.   Apparently the Gentiles didn’t see or perhaps even understand the rejection implied by their limited acceptance.  Besides, they were Greeks who did not want to be Jews anyway.   If they did then they should have demanded to be circumcised immediately, but circumcision never became an issue for the Greek Christians.  So, yes, while the Christian Armies may indeed fight alongside the Jewish Forces in some Last Battle, we must suppose that some Primitive Tribal Hebrew God of War  would decide the details and the outcome, and so perhaps the Christian columns and divisions would last only long enough to be sacrificed as bait or decoys, allowing only the Jewish contingents to survive into Lasting Glory.  Anyway, if Evangelicals ever bothered to put on their Thinking Caps it would soon dawn on them that if they are not to expect to be doomed by their own World View, which classifies themselves as inferior to Jews, then they must modify their view, by evaluating their scriptures exegetically and in regards to their historical contexts.  For instance, if they don’t trust Catholics now, then why do they trust Catholics back then to have not given into the urge to make the Truth even better with some creative scripture writing?   Also, if they would just monitor how much lying and deception they tolerate in their own lives and communities, then they might extrapolate to the days of the Early Greek Church, and suppose that those people were probably not much more morally stringent than themselves, especially if they also were assured that they would be forgiven of all Sins.   You really can’t apply moral standards to people who think they are absolved of Moral Responsibility, can you?  You know, Jesus was purported to have said that “The wheat must be separated from the chaff” and yet these Christians unconditionally believe everything that is put in front of them, even material written by Greeks and for Greeks.   And, yes, being critical may not come easy for them.  For Centuries since the murderous Protestant Rebellion it has been Protestant Doctrine that every word in the Bible is the sacred Word of God, but they should come to terms with the reason for that Doctrine, which was in fact to effectively deify Paul who never in his life quoted Jesus or even directly referred to anything Jesus ever said.  Basically that ‘Word of God Doctrine’ was a Coup to supplant the Teachings of Jesus with the inventions of Paul.   One must wonder how the Evangelicals have not figured that one out.  Or maybe they didn’t want to know.  After all, Paul tells them that God forgives them of all their Sins, while Jesus expects them to act righteously and purely.  Then there is the fact that their Salvation is predicated on Jesus having had to suffer extreme tortures, humiliations and a ghastly death in order to implement it.  So to ask for Salvation one must be willing to be complicit in a horrifying atrocity.   One would think that any decent Human Being would rather jump into Hell on his own then be complicit in the torture and murder of a Good Man in in order to evade taking responsibility for his own moral choices. One must only assume that Evangelicals read very little, even out of their own Bibles, and think about it even less.    

⁹ Zero Interest Loans are actually free money.  Because one only needs to pay the interest on a loan to maintain it from going into default, effectively a zero interest loan is one that one does not even have to pretend to begin paying back because no interest ever becomes due.     

¹⁰ While Israelis could not directly contribute to American Political Campaigns, they could launder the money through American Citizens.  For instance, there was a scam in place by perhaps the best known of the American Jewish Lobby Organizations, the United Jewish something or another, and what they would do was use its phone banks to call America Jews and arrange for them to receive and then sign checks over to their Organization.  The money to cover the checks would stay in some shady slush fund and would not be transferred to under the name of the American Jew until the check was already going through the clearing process.  Anyway, knowing how both Politics and Capitalism works, the Jews funneled a significant percentage of their Weapon’s Profits to their American Political Partners.   I suppose it was the same for the other American Clients.  Oh, even the American Defense industry would have White Collar Only Dinners and pass out checks to thousands of their employees that were to be signed on the spot and endorsed  over to the local Congressional Reps and Senators.  But American Business Interests no longer have to go through such gyrations to bribe politicians, since the Supreme Court Ruling in 2016, McDonnell vs. the United States, now classifies bribery as a legitimate form of Free Speech.  But so far the Supreme Court has not ruled on the rights of foreign powers to bribe American Politicians.  I suppose it won’t be long before the Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing legal arguments to take the form of stacks of hundred dollar bills.