Posted originally on CTH on June 22, 2025 | Sundance 

The tone, attitude and rhetoric from the group demanding support for Israel-First above all interests, is the same tone, attitude and rhetoric from the group demanding unlimited support for Ukraine…

….. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with you for noticing the similarity.

You are stable, pragmatic and wise. You are also not alone.

The alignment of cheers from the Coliseum crowd for the attack on Iran from both Israel-first and Ukraine-Always groups is slightly unnerving in the way it makes you grimace -quietly- inside.

It is an understandable sense because you do not pretend, nor do you disqualify your intuition.

Perhaps like many, you are comfortably invisible, as you prefer to be, and you observe thoughtfully.

When you attend the July 4th celebration and parade, perhaps you do not join the crowd in gleeful clapping as you watch the latest military type police MRAP vehicles pass by. Instead you think of what they signify, a bigger picture.

You are prudent; yet you do not wish to disrupt the smiles of those who do not carry the same thoughts. It’s ok, you are not alone.

We hope for the best in all things, yet we do not carry the singularities of self-interest that demand conformity to our views or priorities. Those shouting in our ears demanding we clap and smile are not us.

For the recent Iran action, we hope for a ‘one-and-done‘, but we accept the unfortunate reality that hope is not a strategy.

And so we pray….

Love to all,

Steadfast!

~ Sundance