After WWII, the consensus was that Prussia and Prussians should no longer exist … due to decades of insistence on war and strict adherence to war-like philosophy.

Both Prussia and Hamas indoctrinate children early on into the killing etc

In the 80 years between ~1865 and ~1945 Prussians were responsible or largely responsible for three major wars. Roughly 100million deaths. Incalculable misery.

In the ~80 years since Prussia has ceased to exist, zero wars zero deaths.

(Surely our betters know this history this precedent -Blinken? Guterres? Sullivan? Suzi Rice? Sammy Power? Nuland Kagan? University folks?)

Three-minute version: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-uVmogHmmWw

(2) Since October 7, a lot of people have shown themselves for who they really are

I loved West Wing for the fast-paced, witty, usually intelligent dialogue, but IMO one of the reasons the Democrats were dumbfounded by the elections of Bush junior and Trump is that too many of them mistook theater for reality.

You can always win if you write the script.

It was much the same with the department of Indian affairs in the era of the Indian wars. Pushing peace without a real understanding of the situation.

He played Robert Ritchie. I remember that, on a comment board I frequented at the time, his character was refereed to as “WRitchie”; this was, as you recall, circa 2002, and the character was Sorkin’s attempt to relitigate the 2000 Bush v. Gore election.

Naturally, Ritchie was portrayed as a “plain-spoken”, somewhat dim guy who spoke in bromides but didn’t have many actual policy proposals. On the show, Bartlet basically destroyed him in a debate and then won by 10 or 11 points.

the west wing was terrible in many respects but around 2002, they came up with a prescient timeline, they had james brolin if memory serves play their version of w, who was from Florida, brolin, the father of thanos, the husband of mega prog streissand
9-11 denialist, yeah that guy,

So the story goes there is an attack on one of the main bridges, and the trail goes back to the highest ranks of a minor gulf emirate, called Qumar which in later episodes was located somewhere between afghanistan and Iran, who sponsored the terrorists, called Bahi for the purposes of the story, the funding comes from the Minister of Defense
for Qumar, of course one cannot attack a supposed ally directly so he is ambushed on refueling stop in the Bermudas, that is Qatar