アメリカはいかにしてまた戦争に負けたのか (あるいは：なぜ私たちはアメリカを憎むのか。) How The Americans Lost Another War (Or: Why we HATE America.)
Sam Harris “Why I Won’t Debate Critics of Israel”
A note to the Making Sense Community
https://art-culture.world/politics/sam-harris/
「戦前の今」 (2) 。神道 (天皇のために殺せ！) の靖国神社崇敬奉賛会会長 安倍昭恵や高市早苗首相 (日本人として当たり前) ： 靖国神社参拝をしましょう！
“Pre-war era” (2). SHINTO (Kill for the TENNO!) Yasukuni Shrine Reverence and Support Association Chairperson ABE Akie and Prime Minister TAKAICHI Sanae (“As a Japanese person, it’s only natural”): Let’s visit and pray at the Yasukuni Shrine!
https://art-culture.world/jp-society/japan-war-shinto-tenno/
プーチン、習近平、トランプ。人類の中に潜む悪が支配しているから、不安定な「変革期」。命令は命令！「戦前の今」 (1) 、隠れ新大和バンカー・シェルター
Putin, Xi, Trump. Because evil lurking within humanity is at stake, we are in a precarious ‘Period of Transformation’. Befehl ist Befehl! “Pre-war era” (1) means a private, new Yamato-Bunker/Shelter
https://art-culture.world/jp-society/war-bunker-shelter/
の続き。
私たちは今、考え方を根本から改めるべき、極めて重要な時期を迎えています。
ここで問題となっているのは、賛成か反対か、イスラム教支持か反イスラム教か、イスラエル支持か反イスラエルかといったことではありません。
また、にっぽんの「スピリチュアル・シーカー」たち、つまり熱狂的な神道信者たちのことでもありません。「天皇陛下万歳」と叫ぶ多くの日本人たちのことです。
大切な問題のは、国家のアイデンティティ確立としての世俗的宗教という構造そのものです。
アメリカ国民の大多数は、民主的な手続きを経て、2度にわたり、狂人を大統領に選出した。
この愚かな大統領は、他国（=枢軸国の歴史の繋ぎ）によって戦争へと追い込まれた。
自称「世界の警察官」であるアメリカは、今やこの戦争に敗北した。
中国はこの事態を認識し、台湾（日本を含む）に対する戦争を敢行しようとし、実際にそうするだろうと私は推測する。
世界中のスピリチュアル・シーカーたちが、哀れで愚かな姿を見せ、「道徳的な偽善者」であるということを、この場で改めて強調しておきたい。
神社の参拝と仏教寺院への参拝を同時にしているあなたも、その対象に含まれる。
東京、令和8年6月21日
亜 真里男
Wir befinden uns an einem kritischen Wendepunkt, an dem wir unser Denken grundlegend ändern müssen.
Es geht hier nicht darum, ob man für oder gegen etwas ist, ob man den Islam unterstützt oder ablehnt oder ob man Israel unterstützt oder ablehnt. Auch geht es nicht um Japans „spirituelle Sucher“, also die gläubigen Shintoisten. Es geht um die vielen Japaner, die „Es lebe der Kaiser!“ rufen.
Die entscheidende Frage ist die Struktur der säkularen Religion als Mittel zur Herausbildung nationaler Identität.
Die überwiegende Mehrheit des amerikanischen Volkes wählte durch demokratische Verfahren zweimal einen Wahnsinnigen zum Präsidenten.
Dieser törichte Präsident wurde von einem anderen Land in den Krieg getrieben (das Bindeglied in der Geschichte der Achsenmächte).
Amerika, der selbsternannte „Weltpolizist“, hat diesen Krieg nun verloren.
Ich vermute, dass China, diese Situation erkennend, versuchen wird – und es auch tatsächlich umsetzen wird –, Krieg gegen Taiwan (einschließlich Japan) zu führen.
Ich möchte hier noch einmal betonen, dass spirituell Suchende weltweit ein erbärmliches und törichtes Schauspiel bieten und „moralische Heuchler“ sind.
Das gilt auch für Sie, die Sie gleichzeitig Shinto-Schreine und buddhistische Tempel besuchen.
Tokyo, 21. Juni des 8. Jahres von Reiwa, der aktuellen japanischen Ära
Mario A
OPINION, NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Trump Was Right. The War Ended With a Surrender.
New York Times, June 20, 2026
President Trump declared in March that a deal to end his war with Iran would require “unconditional surrender,” but that wasn’t quite right. The preliminary agreement he just reached with the Iranian regime was more like a conditional surrender — by the United States.
In the past few days, various Republicans and war hawks have emerged, seemingly bewildered, to criticize the deal. “Trump has surrendered to Iran,” wrote Erick Erickson, a conservative commentator. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas warned, “Giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea.”
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZyGJ8nxIuW/
The criticisms are correct: The Iran deal is a major setback. It gives immediate relief to Iran, including the prompt unfreezing of billions of dollars of Iranian assets and later a $300 billion fund to help rebuild Iran. And it appears to open the door to Iran gaining at least partial control over the Strait of Hormuz, with the ability, 60 days hence, to charge fees of ships transiting the strait.
“This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades,” lamented Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.
Yet these denunciations miss the most important point. Trump’s fundamental mistake was not ending the war but getting into it in the first place.
At this stage, Trump was right to retreat, for he had no good options and continuing the war would surely have cost more lives. It was already shattering the global economy and Republicans’ chances in the midterms.
“If we didn’t do this deal, we could have dropped more bombs for another three weeks, two weeks, four weeks, two years; you would never have the Hormuz Strait open,” Trump said. “I didn’t want to see economic catastrophe.”
The unpalatable truth is that Iran won the war, and that’s why it won the negotiation. Trump dawdled as long as he could, because he realized any deal he could hope to reach would be a humiliation — but the failure of the war had left him with no good exit.
The lesson to be learned from this debacle is to avoid starting needless wars, to temper our hubris that everything will work out perfectly and to rely far more on diplomacy to solve global problems.
In this case, the hawks who were most determined to destroy Iran have done the most to strengthen it, and that should be a cautionary tale.
We had a solution — a highly imperfect one — to the Iran nuclear problem back in 2015 with President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal. Iran shipped nearly all of its enriched uranium out of the country, limited enrichment and opened itself to rigorous inspections. But Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the hawks denounced it.
Obama’s Iran deal “was so bad,” Trump said in 2018, focusing on money that was returned to Iran as part of the agreement. Last year he said that he would “have never given them back the money” as part of a deal. He added, “I would have won that negotiation.”
Well, perhaps not.
After Trump tore up the Obama deal eight years ago, Iran’s leaders predictably built up their nuclear program until they created a crisis. Trump probably could have secured a good bargain in February of this year, on the eve of war, but instead he rashly began dropping bombs, without any exit strategy and, apparently, without calculating how he would respond to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
This lesson about avoiding needless wars is not a new one but apparently must be learned afresh by every generation. In the “Iliad,” Achilles lamented “this insane voyage” to wage the Trojan War, “fighting other soldiers to win their wives as prizes.”
Indeed, ever since Homer wrote of the Greeks’ attempted regime change in Troy, we’ve seen that the grander the military ambition, the more wary we should be.
The new Iran deal punts serious questions about Iran’s nuclear capabilities into a further period of negotiations. And I fear one result of this war is that Iran will be more likely to pursue nuclear weapons. My guess is that the 60-day negotiating period will be extended, that Iran will slow-walk nuclear negotiations and that Trump will be reluctant to accept anything that looks like the Obama accord. Then Trump will lose interest in the same way he seems to have forgotten about Gaza. There will be almost no appetite in America for another Iran war, and the newly empowered Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps will weigh whether to adopt North Korea’s strategy and try to build a nuclear arsenal to seal its regional primacy.
The cost of this war is a weakened America and thousands of lost lives, mostly Iranian and Lebanese but also those of 13 American service members. Linda Bilmes, a Harvard expert on war financing, tells me that she believes the eventual total bill for this war — including repair of bases, replacement of munitions and years of benefits to injured veterans — is very likely to be $1 trillion. Instead of paying for Medicaid, college, child care or humanitarian aid, vast sums were squandered in the Persian Gulf.
Those whom we have betrayed the most are ordinary Iranians. In January, after the Iranian regime massacred thousands of its own people, Trump said, “Help is on its way.” Instead we have left Iranians to suffer under a more oppressive government — and with less hope for change. As a tribute to American indifference, the Trump administration this month reportedly deported an Iranian woman to the Central African Republic, a war-ravaged country that the State Department advises not to visit “for any reason.”
So by all means, denounce this failed Iran war agreement. But the tragedy here is not Trump’s exit from the war but the war itself, and the lesson of history is that when you see a cast of overconfident hawks promising painless victory, beware.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/opinion/trump-iran-republicans-hormuz.html
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米国における超党派の法案：「台湾保証実施法案」 (Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act) / (第一列島線 First Island Chain)
Bipartisan Bill in the US: The Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act / (第一列島線 First Island Chain)
https://art-culture.world/politics/taiwan-assurance-implementation-act/
