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There’s many examples of defense in the Bible including the story of David and Goliath. There is also passages of not murdering thou shall not kill. Not acting out in vengeance but difference from defense or warding off evil..The question is what life do people value the most. This life or the eternal life. That question would not only come from if God doesn’t want you to kill he would not want you to be  killed but warns you could be for his name sake . Further saving your children forced to renounce their faith once your gone.

They want to feel safe and defend themselves they aren’t given the means and training to do it. Keeping their faith without the means to keep it will not only result in anger and violence from their unbelieving attackers who cannot convert them but empower them with acts of  terrorism.

I’m not sure what “assistance” looks like. I’d rather we put our money there trying to defend the Christians than throw our money in Ukraine trying to defend the Nazi’s.

I’m not sure if the U.S. has ever defended Christians anywhere, but I disagree with you about the NGO’s. We’ve seen how the NGO’s operate over here, they launder the money to subvert our own culture and line the pockets of politicians. Catholic and other religious NGO’s were responsible for flooding our borders with illegals. Now, we’re spending billions to try to get rid of them.

If not the military, then maybe the private contractors could go in and clean up some of these warlords that are responsible for the genocide. The Muslims don’t understand anything other than violence. You are right though, many Christians live by Paul’s words, “For me, to live is in Christ, to die is gain.” I don’t think arming them would be effective, they likely don’t have the will or the numbers to defend themselves.

Wow that sounds like one coming from conquered land. You didn’t get the point

My ancestors from Europe especially Hungarians had to fight one battle after another be the Mongrels to the Ottoman. They had many western Texas type Alamos. About 2000 including women and children fought off 40,000  fighting Ottoman Troops and won.  It was at a heavy loss including many women who in the last part when they start breaching the walls became combatants holding off the troups climbing ladders to get over the wall  holding them back while the fighting men were in hand to hand combat with the troops that breached the holes in the fort holding them back. They didn’t expect to win all resolved to die fighting.

History doesn’t remember compliance but does remember those who refused to take a knee.

Where does Jesus tell us to kill our enemies?

Faith without works is dead.

Going ‘Vegas!
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/889470/

who would rather die, than kill even an attacker. The ‘turn the other cheek’ attitude. Love thy neighbour, and bless your enemies.

All that does is make it ‘legal’ for them to strip them from you when they need them.

It’s just more communism.

Looking at their website I’d guess that “Open Doors” wouldn’t be supplying any machine guns to the Christians 🙂 … and would the Christians use them if they had them? If your village was being slaughtered by the Jihadi’s of course you would fight back to protect you and yours!

The Nigerian gov would be a wild card. We’d probably have to bribe them or they may see it as an intrusion on their sovereignty and say No for that reason. Could be a can o worms!

Open Doors (and other NGOs) are already helping. USA implies The Government which to me implies the army. Would Nigerian Christians use small arms to kill people? Not sure about that. Would the (Islamic) Nigerian Government allow the USA to arm a Christian militia? Absolutely sure about that! Boots on the ground?

That’s why I voted no. I couldn’t see how Government intervention could de-escalate the violence – quite the opposite. Better off leaving it to the NGO staff on the ground, in the thick of it, who can assess and react to the situations far quicker than a bureaucracy.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/disagreements-emerge-over-us-china-rare-earth-deal-us-adds-uranium-silver-critical-minerals

ZH even call it whack-a-mole! They must read the tent.

But never mind, because after the Big Z capitulates, a combination of ‘Socrates’, AI and Russia’s relaxed mine and rear end processing permitting will have a brand new rare earth facility up and running in six months providing everything the ROW outside of China needs.

Ford Mulls Scrapping F-150 Lightning After Dismal Demand, Mounting Losses

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/ford-mulls-scrapping-f-150-lightning-after-dismal-demand-mounting-losses

TY … Among those who think we should aid the Christians there’s likely some who would say small arms only, all the way through others who would say whatever it takes … boots on the ground etc.

But mineable deposits are rare. America has many deposits which are low grade, or difficult mineralogy, or both. If Russia was any different Putin would have been scooping them out twenty years ago when prices were ten times today’s.

Russia has rare earths but as a geologist told me it’s something scattered about and has mining experience. The problem revolve around refining and their good friend China wants to keep that all  for themselves. Russia’s up for joint ventures. Trump will handle the rest if he chooses to take that option. He’s already got plans.

The results are interesting. 🤔

Ukraine has no rare earths. If Russia had any substantial economic deposits they would already be exploiting them. Russia isn’t a force in chip manufacture, nor is it killing Americans with drugs, directly or via Canada or Mexico. If Trump, or Armstrong, think peace with Russia means China problem solved, it adds a new dimension to the meaning of TDS.

Little penny stock someone mentioned here a while back.

It’s trading down at $.30 again. Every time it’s gotten down there it’s bounced back up to $.40-.45. Usually pretty quickly. You can see it on the 1 year chart. I picked up a little today and have traded that move a couple of times.

I guess it could break down, but it hasn’t in the last year.

Just saying.

That makes it assuring lol

By Leslie Hook
Financial Times, London
Thursday, November 6, 2025

The U.S. Department of the Interior has added copper, silver, and metallurgical coal to its list of “critical minerals,” increasing the likelihood that these materials could be included in future tariff policies.

The three materials are among 10 elements added today to the list, which is updated every three years by the U.S. Geological Survey. The list determines which minerals are included in the upcoming Section 232 tariff review of levies applied for national security purposes. It also plays a role in determining which domestic projects may receive federal support.

The Trump administration has made it a top priority to secure the supply chains of critical minerals used in the U.S., and greatly expanded the definition of what constitutes a “critical” mineral.

Several of the additions are materials that the U.S. already produces in large quantities and exports, such as metallurgical coal and boron. The USGS said that boron was added after input from industry producers in California. …

… For the remainder of the report:

https://www.ft.com/content/446ebefe-1b8e-4e2d-9bff-6110f

Chat GPT must be new to the pm market. Don’t they know that fundamentals are meaningless in this sector? 🤣😂😇

Funny, they usually tie the shares to the SM more than the metals and the shares outperform to the downside. Today is odd to me.

They are working hard to keep the metals in check today, despite the dollar weakness.

A 1000 year flood it is then. Maybe even more rare from the looks of it.

the metals are tied to the hip of the sinking stock market…….more to come??