{"id":13974,"date":"2026-04-07T13:35:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13974"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:14:38","slug":"civilizational-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13974","title":{"rendered":"Civilizational threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one deserves to be quoted in full: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don\u2019t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”<\/p>\n

No, these words were not uttered by Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Nero, Caligula or any of the other mad rulers from history.<\/p>\n

They were posted on Truth Social<\/a> by the sitting president of the United States of America.<\/p>\n

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And yes, this is a civilizational threat. No, not to Persian civilization — one of the oldest, grandest civilizations on the planet, which will survive this, just as it survived past calamities, just as it will ultimately survive the ayatollahs’ rule as well — but our Western civilization. A threat like this is in fundamental contradiction with our Western values, the values of Enlightenment, liberal democracy, human rights that Western civilization, however imperfectly, represents.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one deserves to be quoted in full: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don\u2019t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-25-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13978,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions\/13978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}