Ryan Cole is double board-certified pathologist with a PhD in Immunology and Virology. Dr. Cole completed his residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the Mayo Clinic. He is CEO and the Medical Director of Cole Diagnostics, an independent medical lab, which serves clinicians throughout Idaho and the US. He has diagnosed over 500,000 patients through the microscope in his extensive career of 26 years. He is a board member of the Independent Doctors of Idaho, Pan American Alliance for Life, Unity Against Covid, Pandemic Health Alliance and was elected as the physician to the Idaho Central District Health board which is Idaho’s largest regional public health department and is also a founding member of the Global Covid Summit.
h/t WorkingDog on GAB
Clever tacticians know it: Strike the enemy at his weakest point. Believe it or not, that – not tanks, aerial warfare, or poison gas – was the biggest innovation that came out of World War I. Before that, nation armies would hurl themselves at one another’s strength, each hoping to destroy the another and win the war with a single overwhelming victory. But what if the enemy has no weak points? What then?
Then you create one.
I’d like my Gentle Readers to think about that for a moment. There are hidden subtleties in the notion. For one thing, it involves deception: the use of your forces and communication capabilities to lure your enemy into unbalancing his men, materiel, and maneuvers. For another, it can require that you accept a (hopefully) temporary imbalance among your forces, praying all the while that your enemy won’t notice it. Warfare between evenly matched contestants is like that. It’s true both at the chessboard and over a map of the world.
Weak points come in many varieties. Some arise from nature itself. For example, in Europe both the Belgian plain and the Fulda gap are notable invasion routes, sculpted that way by the forces that shaped the continent. There isn’t much one can do about them except to build fortifications…and as the French discovered in 1940, even that can’t do everything.
Another celebrated weak point is the salient: the protrusion of your lines in a fashion that creates attackable flanks. Attempts to exploit this tactical factor was a recurring feature of ground warfare on the Western Front of both World Wars. Field commanders learned to avoid creating salient the hard way. They also learned that presenting the opponent with an illusory salient – one that’s more apparent than real – can be a temptation he cannot resist.
In today’s rapid, three-dimensional warfare, the continuity and security of supply to one’s forces is a critical consideration. Historically, logistical factors have tended to favor the defender. That might not be true any longer in open warfare.
As for covert warfare, conducted against an enemy who’s unaware that he’s under attack, we might be seeing it in use today…against us.***
Freedom is under attack today. In truth, it always has been, for there are always men who desire power over others, and they never relent. Freedom elsewhere than in the United States has been extinguished. Nowhere on earth other than here is there a place where governments are under proper restraint, where private citizens can do as they like with what is rightfully theirs, and where the agents of the State are bound to respect the inherent and inalienable rights of the individual.
Here in America, freedom has been under siege for a century and more. The Constitutional constraints we were told we could trust have eroded near to the point of uselessness. Men are imprisoned and kept that way without being charged. Their property is taken from them under flimsy, objectively indefensible pretexts. Some are killed outright and without cause, as witness Roseanne Boyland and Ashli Babbitt.
Yet such open assaults on the rights of men can be pointed out, used to raise a hue and cry, and directly fought. That’s why they haven’t yet become so commonplace as to be usual. But they’re multiplying. They occur with increasing frequency, and not always by the direct action of government thugs.
Our would-be tyrants are not satisfied with the brutalities enumerated above. They want our total subjugation. They want the state of existence a great writer described thus:
In 1997, William Strauss and Neil Howe published a book titled The Fourth Turning, where they examine five hundred years of history and uncover a pattern, one they believe will help people better understand modern history. They claim history moves in cycles composed of four “turnings.” Each turning lasts approximately twenty years and they always arrive in the same order.
The turnings are:
These four turnings are a part of the heartbeat of civilizations as they inevitably go through stages of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. They conclude that, “Sometime before the year 2025, America will pass through a great gate in history, commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil War, and twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II.”
It would seem America is in an unraveling and entering, or already in, the first stages of a fourth turning.
The evidence surrounds us as our society is in decay, not only physically but spiritually, morally, and psychologically. Picture yourself on the beach and you have been warned there was just a large underwater earthquake not far offshore. Next, you see the water rush away from you. You know the signs of an incoming tsunami and you have two choices.
Do you futilely attempt to gather everybody else together, warn them, and then form a human chain to stop the crush of the wave—though most do not believe you anyway? Or do you find those who recognize, like you, that what is happening cannot be stopped but only survived? To stop such an event due to its size and scale is impossible for any human. Perhaps it is better to find a way to get to the other side of the event as fast as possible. By doing this you are better prepared to provide necessary leadership during the period of “High Confident Expansion.”
I agree with option two, that America is approaching a period where we are imminently passing through an unraveling and soon to be in perilous times. But not only America, for I frequently talk to people around the world who reach the same conclusions, primarily in mostly democratic societies. I believe that the leadership of Christ’s church is the only means to successfully survive this societal tsunami, and we must prepare ourselves to lead through the darkness and to be the leaders coming out of the darkness. We must prepare spiritually, mentally, and physically to withstand not only the strain of knowing what is likely coming, but that of living through it also.
I will only visit a Hospital or Doctor for a major medical/life threatening issue. I’m fortunate to be married to a nurse. Our Healthcare system has lost all credibility. Do all you can to get healthy and stay healthy. Avoid Doctors and Hospitals at all cost.
Wes
I’ve been struggling with my thoughts as of late. I’ve just been thinking a lot about the situation we find ourselves in and I’m pretty frustrated. T.L. Davis published this article yesterday and it was as if he was in my head all day yesterday. I had one friend whom I forwarded his article to say that if it didn’t have T.L.’s name on it he would’ve swore I wrote it. Great compliment as he has influenced me greatly over the years.
Evil is winning. Most people could care less. We’ve got the “SuperBowl” to worry about don’t you know? Perhaps everyone has just become numb to the nonsense that we are hit with on a daily basis. Every day it is something new. Every day we are hit with another slap in the face. Every day our “government” says “what are you going to do about it?” Our answer so far has been absolutely Nothing!
When is it enough for you? What has to happen for you to say I’ve had enough? I wonder what my kids will think of me as they get older and see that I didn’t do anything to stop the Tyranny that we are faced with. I feel as though everything I have done, everything I have said, everything I have written, has all been for nothing. I’ve spent the last 15 years of my life trying to battle this evil through the “proper” ways. It was a waste. Now, no one seems to want to come together to do what actually needs doing. We are down to that one final option, we must fight.
Are you ready to be brave and stand up for your children? For all children? I often hear parents say they would take a bullet for their kids. Would you? Would you really? When is it enough? Would you stand up for yourself? Would you defend Liberty for yourself and the future generations? Why must we continue to wait for trouble to show up on our doorstep before we act? That’s not much of a plan and I don’t much like dying a martyr.
I’ve accomplished much in my life. I’m a nobody. But I’m afraid for my children’s future. I fear the world we are leaving them. Rebellion to Tyrants is our only option. Physical action not “voting” is required of us now. As T.L. says “We all die, it’s just a matter of how much pain and anguish goeth before the end.” I don’t want my kids to be surrounded by darkness, read my writings in the future, and ask why didn’t I do anything other than gripe about it?
We are free to choose the time when we act. Should we wait for a time when people will listen to us? When will a good majority of the population be willing to listen to our point of view? Probably never. Strategy is knowing your enemy and choosing the time to act. Our enemy is known. Hopefully you know your local enemies. Those of us that value Liberty are not getting any younger. What good is all our training and weapons if we are not willing to do what our Founding Father’s warned us to do should this day ever come?
If we are in fact legion in number. If we are in fact armed to the teeth. If we are in fact guided by a faith in God. Why won’t we trust in ourselves and our God and stand and fight?
It’s a grim future that nobody wants but that is readily becoming our only path forward. The seeds have already been planted, nothing is going to stop what is coming. The outrage and anger is growing by the day. TPTB hate us and everything we stand for. They despise that we won’t bow down and let them rule over us. They hate us for not obeying them and thinking for yourselves.
This is an elimination match. Either Communism wins or Liberty wins. There is no other way. You don’t compromise with people who wish you dead and think the world would be better off without you and your way of thinking. They will never leave us alone. We must eliminate them. Every last one of them.
On which hill will we die? We are already on that hill. Will you die fighting? Or will you die a coward?
It’s time to quit using our mouths and words as our weapons of choice. This life is beginning to feel like a prison. While no one wants war, at this point, it is acceptable to me. Evil must always be destroyed!
Nobody wants to be first. The longer we wait the worse it will be.
I don’t want to die a coward.
Wes
Biden is expected to give his second State of the Union address at the Capitol on the House floor, where most members of Congress in the House and Senate will attend in-person. Despite objections by Democrats to a barrier on the southern border, a large fence started being constructed Sunday around the Capitol complex.
