In contrast to the Battle of Midway, can Creator comment on the turning point that was the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II? Unlike Midway, which was decided in less than a week, Stalingrad was a brutal bloodbath that ground on for months in the most horrific of conditions, both natural and manmade. Russian soldiers, in particular, feared their own leadership as much as the enemy in many cases. Stalingrad was called a “moonscape,” bombed into oblivion and utterly unrecognizable. Where was the divine in this contest? And what contrast would Creator make between the Battle of Midway and the Battle of Stalingrad?

We always view human folly as unfortunate and work to limit the consequences as much as we are able. There are limits to what we can do, given that we must honor human free will choices, whether positive or negative, good or bad, from a moral perspective. This is because of the rules of engagement that you have been given—the task of governing your world and taking responsibility for all that happens. Things will go better when you ask for our support, and involvement in partnership, because we are more able to inspire and coach you and render support, healing, and protection in the bargain for you to be more resilient and more successful, even at times of war should that develop. So we are involved on a personal and global level according to the energies we have to work with provided by human intention for divine assistance, if that is genuine, based on belief in the divine, and not too greatly countermanded by lack of belief in the worthiness of the requester, which must also be present to enable us to intervene on their behalf. In the case of this battle in question, this was part of the same overarching contest between good and evil—world conquest and domination on the one hand, versus freedom and liberty on the other, for people to live as they chose and express and act on their own desires and choices, and not be controlled and governed by a dictatorship increasingly intent on carrying out evil aims. The fact that we could discern whether there was a greater or lesser evil on the part of one or the other side was not the deciding factor in terms of the intensity and duration of the ongoing combat and its outcome. It is almost always the case that our ability to weigh in and benefit any human being, or group of human beings, will depend on the level of intention they mount to request divine assistance, and then the other obstacles to our involvement, one of which is the level of intention brought to bear by the opposition. After all, even if humans are being duped to carry out evil intentions that are inimical to their own interests, their free will choices to do so must be honored by us through the rules of engagement, at least up to a point. That is what makes things quite difficult for all involved, whether divine or human, the end result being that human folly can grow to enormous proportions and exact a huge toll in suffering before the divine can finally help win the day to call a halt to the carnage and move things towards a more positive series of developments. So what you were seeing was really, in effect, a larger theater of war playing out, and the intensity of much larger numbers of humans acting in opposition to one another and the underlying manipulations influencing their actions. But this was part of the same overall contest between good and evil, it is not guaranteed that good will always win—that is what is being decided in your world right now with the way things are going.