Eyes on the prize: the apocalyptic Christian fetishists want a red heifer sacrificed in a rebuilt Holy Temple. Said Holy Temple would need to replace the Dome of the Rock so... go Jews I guess? This, of course, is a cross-eyed evangelical Revelations-related read of the Book of Numbers and is subject to whim. Christian thought on the issue has a lot more to do with Tim LaHaye than it does with John the Apostle so it's pretty squishy.

Squishy as it is, it has fuckall to do with Iran. The Iran thing is Ezekeil 38-39 which doesn't say "holocaust" and actually fits the USSR better than Iran - Ezekiel 38 reads out Persia as an "ally" of Gog among modern-day Turkey, Ukraine, Ethiopia and Libya. And sure - they'll interpret it however they want. But the prophetic backing for a Left Behind War diminished greatly on October 8th, 9th, 10th and subsequent retaliatory events.

I'm not seeing boots on the ground in Iran. There's no advantage to it. I could be wrong? The amount of bizarro-ass shit since 2016 is mind-numbing. But there will be significant resistance to putting soldiers anywhere they are within easy reach of a truck bomb.