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Ukraine War Update 8-3-2025
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Escalations on the Battlefield, in Propaganda, and Nuclear War Rhetoric
In a recent interview on the Ukraine War situation, Scott Ritter, a former Marine intelligence officer, formerly a Chief Weapons Inspector for the United Nations, and presently a highly knowledgeable expert on Russian military and foreign policy thinking, lamented that a major problem with US foreign policy on Russia is that few Americans have much accurate information about Russia. They are more likely to have considerable misinformation. This includes especially the background of the Ukraine War. In the case of Vladimir Putin, their knowledge consists mostly of carefully orchestrated demonization by the CIA, British MI6 intelligence, and Hillary Clinton. Ritter estimated that real understanding of the Ukraine War and Russia generally is limited to a single low digit percentage of American adults. Ritter’s remarks translate into approximating that only a little better than 4 percent of potential American voters are fully able to discern the realities of the Ukraine situation. This low number reflects the relentless blizzard of compliant US, British, and German media disinformation and propaganda misrepresenting the causes and facts of the war. Based on polls showing at least 30 percent of Republicans have significant reservations about continued US support for what is actually a costly and failing US proxy war against Russia, maybe 10-12 percent of the population is adequately informed
A Triumph of Integrity and Courage
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Matthew Lohmeier Confirmed as Under Secretary of the Air Force
In February 2021 following the inauguration of Joe Biden as President, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered a “stand down” in the military initiating the implementation of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the U.S. Armed Forces. According to retired Lt. General Jerry Boykin, Executive Vice President of the Family Research Council, Austin and the Biden Administration postured that the military was riddled with “white supremacists” and “white supremacy” ideology that should be cleansed.
In June 2020, U.S. Space Force (USSF) Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier became Commander of the 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley AFB, Colorado. Lohmeier was a 2006 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and had previously served as a pilot and aircraft commander of F-15C USAF jet fighter aircraft. He became proficient in Mandarin Chinese while at the Air Force Academy.
Updated Briefing on Syria
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The Syrian Fuse is Burning Again
I have written about nine articles on Syria going back as far as 2017. Several of them concerned the genocide of Syrian Christians by radical Sunni Muslims opposing the rule of Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria from July 2000 until December 8, 2024. Assad is a Shia Alawite Muslim. The Alawites are exceptionally moderate Muslims and have allied with the Christians in economic and politics in Syria for many generations, protecting them from the Sunni Muslim majority in Syria, whose fundamentalist Islamic religious doctrines strongly oppose Christians, Jews, Druze, and in fact, all non-Muslims and moderate Muslims.
The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, is the largest and most powerful Sunni Muslim organization in the world. The Muslim Brotherhood is “Salafist”—back to fundamentalist basics—in its doctrines and has especially little tolerance for religiously moderate Muslim leaders. For many decades, the Ikhwan (Brotherhood) planned to remove the Assad regime, begun by Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez al-Assad after a military coup in 1971. The Arab Spring, backed by President Barack Obama in 2011, was the perfect opportunity to pursue Muslim Brotherhood goals in Syria. By the way, a 2004 FBI raid in Virginia uncovered hundreds of documents revealing Muslim Brotherhood plans to build a framework to overthrow the culture and Government of the United States.
World War II on the Eastern Front
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German and Soviet Statistics Tell a Bloody Story
According to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, 5.5 million members of the German Armed Forces were killed, died of wounds, or remained missing at the end of 1946. This was approximately 30 percent of the 18.2 million German military personnel who served during the war. The population of Germany in 1939 was 80.6 million, which included 6.7 million from Austria annexed in March 1938 and 3.3 million from German-speaking Sudetenland, formerly part of Czechoslovakia, occupied by German troops in September 1938.
Three Biblical Pillars of Christian Faith
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Grace Alone, Faith Alone, in Christ Alone
Grace Alone
On April 22, I published an article in the Times Examiner entitled “The Sovereignty of God.” On June 10, I followed with an article entitled “Sharpening the Truth of Amazing Grace.” Grace is the sovereign gift of God. We do not earn Grace. We may be made in the image of God, but that too, is the sovereign gift of God. We are missing the mark, if we presume we can merit grace or salvation by our own efforts or wisdom. The sinful nature we inherited from Adam is too strong, too blinding, and too polarizing for us to truly know God or recognize our own depraved condition, nature, foolishness, and hopelessness. Grace is God’s loving intervention to cleanse, redeem, enlighten, save, and ultimately glorify whomever He chooses. But I cannot do justice to conveying these Biblical truths. Let Scripture, the Word of God, make the case.
Mike Scruggs is the author of two books: The Un-Civil War: Shattering the Historical Myths; and Lessons from the Vietnam War: Truths the Media Never Told You, and over 600 articles on military history, national security, intelligent design, genealogical genetics, immigration, current political affairs, Islam, and the Middle East.
He holds a BS degree from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Stanford University. A former USAF intelligence officer and Air Commando, he is a decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam War, and holds the Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, and Air Medal. He is a retired First Vice President for a major national financial services firm and former Chairman of the Board of a classical Christian school.
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