Helvetin Pastori/Pastor of Hell

Translations of a Finnish blog post. Link here Well, i's happening. At the moment of writing this, the extremist group Taliban is besieging Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan and based on the most recent information is negotiating about transfer of power with the Afghani government. The whole situation feels absurd. The war in Afghanistan started in 2001, when I was only four years old. In other words, the war has been ongoing for most of my life. And when the US decides to withdraw it's troops from the country, it only takes few weeks for the Taliban to take over. I have to ask, what exactly did we achieve here?  The situation in Afghanistan is a perfect example of US foreign policy failures. The Taliban is a self created enemy: the fear of Communism during the Cold War drove the US to support local jihadists in their fight against the pro-Soviet government. But when the common enemy was defeated, the weapons were turned against the US. And once again, it's the average Afgh...

This is a sightly edited version of a post I made to a short lived blog I started back in 2015. It's one of two posts I made on the issue of gun violence and control in America. I decided to re-post both of them here, because of the fact that the situation in America on the issue of gun control is practically the same as it was back in 2015. I think, I've developed a lot as a writer since then, and I think you will notice it. That being said, feel free to enjoy the ramblings of a 18-year-old boy, who was going through some changes in his life and was desperate to went out his frustration.  Link to the other one here First of all, I mean every single word I wrote in my previous post and you won't hear an apology over that. I'm only making this post because the original one didn't really come out like I planned it. Basically, I thought I had enough time to write it, before I had to leave for practice. (I train martial arts that's all you need to know) Orig...

This is a sightly edited version of a post I made to a short lived blog I started back in 2015. It's one of two posts I made on the issue of gun violence and control in America. I decided to re-post both of them here, because of the fact that the situation in America on the issue of gun control is practically the same as it was back in 2015. I think, I've developed a lot as a writer since then, and I think you will notice it. That being said, feel free to enjoy the ramblings of a 18-year-old boy, who was going through some changes in his life and was desperate to went out his frustration. Link to the other post here   As we all know, the US has the highest gun ownership rates in the world. It also has the highest number of homicides and gun related crimes in the developed world. Actually, more Americans have died in gun related accidents and crimes than actual wars. This is not normal! No matter what you say makes this acceptable. This trend could be easily changed, but ev...

So, here we are. After president Trumps recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel despite serious opposition from basically the whole world, including members of his own administration, I knew I had to write about this man. But when I started to plan the post itself, I soon realized how hard it would be. This is surprising considering all the stupid shit this man has done during his time in office and his campaign before that. You'd think it would be easy to just start writing about all the stuff he has done and said. The problem is, he has done and said so much stupid shit that I've lost count.  All his broken promises, his efforts to repeal Obamacare, the planned "tax cut" which only benefits the rich, all the blatant racism and sexism, the travel ban affecting countries that have never attacked the US, attacks towards the media and his critics, escalation of wars, all the stuff regarding Russia... There actually is too much to write about. I...