The days when Israel controlled the skies are over. Hezbollah can now flex its aerial reconnaissance muscle at will. 

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Hezbollah managed to successfully shoot down Israeli drones and they have yet to demonstrate more hidden capabilities.

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The days when Israel controlled the skies are over. Hezbollah can now flex its aerial reconnaissance muscle at will.

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It would be the “height of folly” for Benjamin Netanyahu to engage in a full-scale war with Hezbollah, pointing to growing rifts between the Israeli Prime Minister and his military.

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Israel is now realizing a ceasefire is its best way out of a full-scale war with Hezbollah.

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On Cyprus’ role as a haven for Intel favored by the U.S. and the U.K.

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⁣“There is one existential threat: It’s Donald Trump.”

Those are the words of President Joe Biden.

Maybe it’s time you re-familiarize yourself with what the term “existential threat” means.

And what the logical solution for such a threat is.

Biden green-lighted this assassination attempt.

And so have you, with your irresponsible rhetoric.

You and Biden are at the head of a political apparatus that has openly advocated for the termination of Donald Trump as a political force in America.

You pulled the trigger on the would-be assassins gun yesterday by the force of the words you use to describe Trump.

If you do not want to be the cause of the Republic you once led devolving into open Civil War, you must cease and desist on encouraging the demonization of Trump, and instead focus on healing a nation.

America can survive another four years of Trump.

We cannot survive a Civil War.

Be the leader you once were.

Heal a nation.

Stop the rhetoric of personal demonization that triggered the attempted assassination against former President Trump.

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The attempted assassination of former President Trump underscores the extraordinarily precarious situation America finds itself in at this point in time in history.

Political violence is tragically not unknown in America—the assassination and attempted assassination of American Presidents is a sad reality of the American experience.

That an estranged citizen would convert his personal demons into an action designed to end the life of the person he blamed for what haunts him is sadly a byproduct of a society conditioned to accept violence as a means of resolving disputes, regardless of the underlying legality of the action.

The Second Amendment, and the Supreme Court’s current interpretation of its articulation and implementation, is the living manifestation of this reality.

But America has never before experienced a situation where the political environment itself has contributed so heavily to an atmosphere where political violence is openly advocated by a sitting President and his political party.

The depiction of Donald Trump by President Joe Biden as a criminal who represents a direct threat not only to democracy but also the existential survival of the American Republic creates a causal linkage that leads inevitably to the attempted assassination. Biden’s words have been echoed by the Democratic Party and anti-Trump activists on mainstream and social media in such a fashion that it constitutes a veritable green-lighting of political violence against the former President.

At a time when the American people and nation are fundamentally divided on political issues for which it seems there is no middle ground, when these divisions are articulated in stark existential terms, and when the Democratic Party is already being accused—with good reason—of politicizing and weaponizing the apparatus of judicial power to prevent Donald Trump from successfully challenging Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential election, the articulation by Biden and his supporters of Trump as a threat to the survival of the Republic that must be stopped at all costs is little more that an open directive for political violence.

America has never been closer to Civil War at anytime since 1861. The assassination of the former President on the orders—perceived or otherwise—of a sitting president and the establishment he directs would likely result in the permanent irreconcilable division of the nation along ideological grounds and lead to massive outbreaks of violence and the potential fracturing of the physical unity of the nation.

We live in a very precarious moment. The fever pitch of political rhetoric must be cooled down immediately. If both sides cannot walk back their respective political passions, then what happened in Bulter Pennsylvania yesterday will become the inevitable norm, and violence, not reason, will become the chosen means of ideological differences.

And if that is the direction America is heading, God help us all.

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