So.... just looking at this first clip, you do realize that the quotation they give from Josephus is from a defense of Judaism, right? If you read that full paragraph, he's refuting the various claims Greeks made against Jews, that being one of them. It's Book II, Paragraph 8 of Against Apion. He literally cites Apion as the propagator, if not the inventor, of the claim. They don't even cite the work properly, wrong paragraph and they really chopped up the passage.

I'm in favor of questioning the narrative. But great claims need great evidence. Preferably cited properly and not easily refuted by 10 minutes of research.

Can't agree with the author's assertion that this is a war of ideology. Ideology is a convenient cover. Russia and China both threaten the supremacy of the dollar in international trade, particularly in the oil trade. If the dollar stops being the sole currency used to purchase oil, the American economy will falter. Hard. No one's going to want to invest in a currency whose owner owes $33T and produces very little in the way of tangible goods.

Well, I take that for granted now, @Tom Morelli. We haven't had a real choice... well, probably ever in my lifetime.

Let's just say I recently saw the new movie Civil War, and it freaked me out a little.