Astro (John of St. Thomas's Top Guy)

“The knowledge of the Trinity in unity is the fruit and end of our entire life.” - St. Thomas Aquinas

@irumyuui1 In my opinion, Iran has clearly won one thing: the media war. They now have more supporters outside Iran than ever.

@irumyuui1 Because they don't need explicit supporters, but only that those who oppose them oppose Trump and Netanyahu at the same time.

UAE is such a delusional nation. Money can't make you think like Aryans.

@irumyuui1 Lmao

@Thomisticae The only nigga that won this war is Uganda.

>Gets bombed on a daily basis by Iran (including today) >Doesn't do anything except crying about it >Claims victory Congrats bro

@irumyuui1 A month into war: "Oh actually, Trump and IRGC have teamed up to destroy Iran".

@irumyuui1 A famous example is Iran International satellite tv. They asked people to get ready for celebration and that everything was going to end in a few days. A week later: "be patient, it'll take worse case scenario two weeks, Islamic Regime has got nothing left".

@irumyuui1 I'll check it out, thanks. Also, I should tell you about the war and especially the first day where I was at the military base air raid siren went off, it was such a crazy experience, a few minutes later, two bombs dropped next to us. It was hell of a day.

@Thomisticae He definitely realized he skrewed up. With Trump ofc you have to either ignore what he says or read extremely closely in-between the lines. This article+the statement of Joe Kent all but confirms this: nytimes.com/2026/03/22/us/…

@irumyuui1 Do you think Trump himself has realized that he's screwed up? Does he actually believe that he has achieved his objectives?

Israel is fucking up negotiations (like when they targeted the foreign minister, or what they just did today) and the international community isn't doing anything to stop them. A lot of analysts think that Israel is trying to balkanize Iran by supporting the Kurds, Arabs, and Azeris, attack more civilian infrastructure to cause as much chaos as possible, and devolve it into Syria. My analysis of what has happened so far: Israel and Iran both have extremely high resolve and high absolute cost of war, the U.S. has low resolve and low absolute cost of war, the gulf states have high absolute cost of war and low resolve, the Iranian proxies have high resolve and absolute cost of war, and the cost of war for all sides is just increasing the longer the war goes on. The expected outcome Israel shifted from "regime change" to "balkanization" and once they give up on balkanization it will be unsure what their plan will be, and with the U.S. the expected outcome also has heavily decreased (basically, it is returning back to what it was in the negotiations at Geneva). The Iranian expected outcome has either not changed at all or barely changed, and the only hint that it has gone down is that they momentarily went from "we only accept a total end" to "we will accept a temporary ceasefire so negotiations for an end to the war can take place." In order for the war to end, a settlement needs to be reached such the expected outcomes of war for both sides is such that there actually is a bargaining range for a settlement to take place. Although we have seen that the Israeli/American side has gotten less optimistic about the outcome of the war, that hasn't put Israel within bargaining range even though it (allegedly) had for the U.S. and Iran yet, but hopefully it does. Also... the fact that Israel wasn't even included in the negotiations basically tells you everything. Trump didn't even consider it worth time to ask Israel if the terms were acceptable.

@Jeremy57145312 Thank you! You just need to watch @WalmartThomist video "How to read St. Thomas". That's my recommendation. And no, no section is worth skipping or skimming, the whole work is a divine marble.

@Thomisticae I'm glad you're alive. I have a question: I'm thinking of reading the entire Summa. As someone who has already read it, how did you organize your reading? Are there any sections worth skipping or skimming on the first reading? What helped you get the most out of it? Thank you!

@FinnishZoomer Haifa

@Thomisticae YOUR LOCATION

I don't have a good feeling about the ceasefire. Seems like it's part of a greater plan.

@L00seN00se Very easy to find. Go to logic volume, check out the "On the Universals" question.

@Thomisticae Wait, where specifically does John of St. Thomas and Hugon refute platonism? Struggling on finding it ngl

John of St. Thomas, exercising his true Dominican charity, defends the Subtle Doctor against Jesuits and Thomists who accused him of being a Platonist saying: “There is certainly a great difference between the subtle opinion of Scotus and the fiction of Plato.”

Spanish Wikipedia has put my scan of John of St. Thomas' portrait as the main image, but the English one hasn't. My Spanish followers are the best. es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_S…

@irumyuui1 And how do you see the future of this war?

They are going to be down the shitter for at least one year. Kuwait took one year to repair their oil infrastructure from the gulf war, so that is a realistic assumption. Their non-oil/LNG industries could take longer hypothetically. Also, Qatar's LNG infrastructure will take three to five years to fix.

@netflix Immediate release of Mindhunter Season 3!!!