Trump insults, abuses and disregards his allies, threatens to invade them, starts trade war against them, starts a bombing war without consultation...

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One question that keeps cropping up in my mind is:
Are Israelis or Jews, around the world and in Israel, or Americans, any safer now than they were 1 year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years ago?
The same applies to any sort of persecution or persistent animosity between any type of group.

Does the world still not understand that if you persecute or persistently increase tension towards another religion/ ethnicity/ minority group,, it doesn't make you any safer. Quite the reverse, it increases animosity between the various groups, which if not wound down, eventually leads to violence, and all out war.

Yet in this forum, for page after page we see many posters intentionally raising that level of animosity and outright hatred towards other groups.
Let's dial it back, and stop doing our damnedest to increase that tension.

I actually agree with much of what you say in the first two paragraphs. However the powers that be in many quarters around the world don't want (true) peace. Nor do many of the various factions within (or outside of) them.

Too much money to be made from unrest, conflict and war.

Ok it's a flowery utopian thing to say, however I sometimes think imagine if these relatively few leaders around the world actually wanted true peace. However we have the reverse.

We'll never learn.

 

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In the latest Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, Trump's disapproval rating hit 62%, an all-time high from the survey's history throughout both terms in office.