Western Values and Donald Trump Are Not Synonymous

There are a few good points in this X post:

I think this touches on something much deeper. Something that, in my view, is quite unique to Western civilization and one of the many reasons why the West has prospered and continues to prosper more than many other parts of the world.

When a country like the United States invests enormous resources to bring its people who went MIA home, or when a country like Israel sacrifices so much in order to rescue its people who were kidnapped by Palestinians, it tells you something important about the values of those societies.

These are often the same countries portrayed as cruel or immoral in global propaganda. Yet their actions show a very different reality: a profound commitment to the value of human life.

Now, let's compare that to regimes that treat their own people as expendable.

Putin has sent wave after wave of his own people to die as cannon fodder.

The Iranian regime recruits children into the Basij for security duties and in the past even sent young boys into minefields during the Iran Iraq war. Hamas and other Palestinian jihadist movements openly glorify martyrdom and encourage children to aspire to die as “martyrs”.

This contrast matters.

Civilizations reveal their true values in how they treat human life, especially the lives of their own people.

The West is far from perfect. No society is. But the fact that millions of people still strive to immigrate to Western countries and NEVER the other way around, and that the most prosperous and free economies are overwhelmingly Western, is not a coincidence.

Do not fall for simplistic propaganda. When you look closely at the values behind the actions, the West remains one of the most humane and advanced civilizations humanity has produced.

For the most part, the West is different, in a mostly positive way. That includes Israel and the United States of America, whose actions- traditonally- show "a profound commitment to the value of human life."

But that does not include the current leadership of the USA and of Israel.  President Trump "fell in love" with North Korean president Kim Jong Un, who reportedly had ordered the assassination of his half-brother, and he and Kim exchanged love letters.   He praised then-President Rodrigo Duterte of the Phillipines, who aimed to execute three million drug addicts but managed only 20,000-30,000 before his term ended. Trump has claimed a "very strong and personal relationship" with the "brilliant" President Xi JinPing, the Chinese dictator whose country carries out more executions than any nation on earth.

President Trump's love of Vladimir Putin already is the stuff of legend. Despite- no, partly because- the Russian president is reknowned for ordering the murder of his enemies, Trump has called him "amazing" and a "man so highly respected within his own country and beyond."

Trump counts among his friends other dictators such as Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypy, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, and Viktor Orban of Hungary. Mostly, he likes and enjoys autocrats. But if they're bloodthirsty, all the better. 

And now the man who leads the most powerful military ever, in the nation which has "a profound commitment to the value of human life," posted on Easter Sunday

Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F**kin' Strait, you crazy b*st*rds, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.

On that same day, representing the most prominent nation in "one of the most humane and advanced civilizations humanity has produced," told a reporter

Every day, they're gonna have to build more bridges, and they're gonna have to build more power plants and more everything else. ... There's been no country that's ever taken a pounding like that.

... If it happens, it happens. And if it doesn't, we're blowing up the whole country. We're blowing up, as I said, it's going to be bridge day and it's going to be power plant day in the country of Iran.

That's the spirit! Death and destruction, a perfect message for Resurrection Day- if you're Donald J. Trump. 

Benjamin Netanyahu is not the crude and belligerent vulgarian which Donald Trump is. However, they're both corrupt, authoritarian, and head up powerful militaries. And they're both traitors to the advanced and humane societies their nations embodied before they took charge of their government. 

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