Sooo... if Trump now claims to have achieved the still not publicly stated goals for choosing to launch the war of aggression in Iran, then what was the goal?

Already after the previous 12-day war of aggression Trump claimed to have completely irrecoverably obliterated the claimed Nuke-bombs program of Iran, which Iran claims to not have and which Trump was the one to break the JCPOA protecting the world against that happening in the first place, sooo... that can't be it.

There were some claims of regime change, abusing such words as "freedom", but the regime has changed to even more hardcore authoritarian reactionary, sooo... that can't be it.

The Hormuz Strait was open before the war and will according to the claimed agreement now be open again but apparently under Iran's control, sooo... that can't be it.

Completely pointless mass-destruction causing impoverished and sick worldwide to lose sustenance and medication en masse, many more in the region hating USA and Israel even more even longer, igniting more strife between people e.g. currently burning Basra, very much increased threat against Jews worldwide because Netanyahu keeps unilaterally associating all Jews with Israel's unrelated war crimes, and the most extreme incompetence of any world "leader" ever, sooo... that can be it.

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One of the difficulties of listing Opus Dei as a heresy more generally is that the founder has been sainted. There are people arguing that this should be undone, but I've never heard of sainthood being rescinded. There was an article about this in The Guardian yesterday.

The process of canonisation used to be an adversarial process with arguments for and against. (The person arguing against was called "the devil's advocate"!) However, this changed, iirc under Pope John Paul 2, who subsequently sainted more people than all of his predecessors combined. Some of these were extremely dubious and a lot of them simply would not have gotten through under the old process. A few of them are more or less offensive.

Anyway, I was raised Catholic so have some knowledge but don't want to overstep the bounds of an outside person criticising them, except where they're causing harm. Unfortunately, PJP2 did cause some serious lasting harms, especially wrt to enabling fascist elements within the church, who are now out in the world, doing fascism.