Humans are made in God's image. The rest of creation is not.

I can get a good idea of who God is by what the Bible tells me but it also says that God's thoughts are not my thoughts, Nor are His ways my ways.

We are connected in that humans have d******n over and should be good stewards of God's creation but we are not connected with it as in being equals.

You sound New Age to me... and you're still double-minded.

BTW... how can you believe in something you can't comprehend?

Russia's dismal military performance in Ukraine demonstrates the problems dictators face. Vladimir Putin was not a military man. He was in intelligence, the KGB. He lacks military experience and training. Therefore he must rely on his military advisors to tell him what is going on and what is feasible militarily. However, Putin is a suspicious man.

He fears anyone beneath him in positions of power who could o*******w him. As military advisors he has tended to appoint men he could trust, but who were not necessarily competent. He shares this paranoia with the infamous Joseph Stalin, whose purges of talented Soviet generals and colonels in the 1930s contributed to the 1941 defeats of the Red Army.

The Wagner Group was one of the few Russian military units that performed relatively well in the Ukraine War, and it's leader, for all of his faults was a competent general. His r*******n against Putin once again shows why Putin can never trust a successful general.

This has lessons for Xi's leadership in China if it wants to launch a successful invasion of Taiwan. Xi and the C*******t Party keep a tight rein on the Chinese military. They do not allow any one general or admiral ter. However, a successful invasion of Taiwan will involve a combined air, land, and sea military command. They will have to give their best military officer overall command, similar to Eisenhower commanding D-Day in WW2.

If that officer is successful, he will become a threat to the C*******t Party. If they do not trust in a unified command, and instead use the model Russia is using in Ukraine they risk having the same result.