Friday, March 22, 2024
U.S. Troops Are One Mile From The Chinese Border
The U.S. cannot afford a war with China. The size of our military has been shrinking, and our resources are stretched way too thin. Today, the U.S. has military bases in 80 different countries, and we have troops stationed in 178 different countries.
That is insane. No empire in the entire history of humanity has had forces spread all over the planet like this. Our ammunition levels are extremely low due to major conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, and every war game that our leaders have conducted has shown us losing a war to protect Taiwan. So we should be trying to avoid sparking a war with China, because we are holding a losing hand.
But our politicians seem determined to provoke one anyway. It is being reported that officials in Taiwan have confirmed that U.S. forces are now permanently stationed “on its islands in the Taiwan Strait”…
Taiwan has officially confirmed the presence of US troops stationed on its islands in the Taiwan Strait permanently, a development that could further escalate mounting tensions with China.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed in 2023 facilitated the deployment of these troops to conduct training programs for Taiwanese frontline forces.
This is going to make Chinese authorities extremely mad.
It would have been bad enough if we had just put troops on Taiwan’s main island.
But we didn’t stop there.
We are being told that U.S. troops have also been stationed on the Penghu islands and the Kinmen islands…
According to reports from Taiwan’s United Daily News (UDN), US Army Green Berets from the 1st Special Forces Group are now permanently stationed at bases of the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, a Taiwanese army special operations force, located in outlying island counties of Penghu and Kinmen. Notably, Kinmen lies just over a mile from Chinese shores.
Additionally, reports suggest an American military presence in the northeast city of Taoyuan on Taiwan’s main island, with service members providing specialized training on drone equipment for Taiwan’s elite Airborne Special Service Company.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
God’s Kindness and Patience Romans 2:4-5
A Clay Jar
Encouraging, comforting, and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory. (1 Thess. 2:12 NIV)
Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God’s kindness leads you to repentance? But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!
Romans 2:4-5 NET
In context, this passage addressed Jews who saw themselves as God’s “chosen people” and who judged Gentiles as sinners and unworthy of God. And in doing so, they showed contempt for God’s kindness, patience, and forbearance. They scoffed at the thought of God caring about Gentile sinners.
But they were also subject to God’s judgment, and God, in his kindness, was leading them to repentance. Unfortunately, many of them refused to respond to God’s kindness and, in their stubbornness, were storing up wrath for the day of judgment.
But what Paul had to say to the Jews is not limited just to them. God, in his kindness and patience, works within each person, leading us to repentance. He wants everyone to be saved (1 Tim. 2:4; 2 Pet. 3:9).
But many show contempt for God’s kindness and forbearance by refusing to repent and believe. And, because of their stubborn and unrepentant hearts, they are storing up wrath for the day of wrath.
If you have not yet responded in repentance to God’s kindness and patience, I urge you to do so before it is too late. And if there are those you view as unworthy of God’s love, I urge you not to show contempt for the wealth of God’s kindness, forbearance, and patience by judging them as unworthy. Instead, be willing to share God’s love with them.
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