Avira
“Of course, the whole remote controlled killing theory is unfalsifiable. Maybe it was the satmar rov who killed stalin? Maybe it was the belzer rebbe? All of klal yisroel were davening for the Soviet union to fall”
So you mean there were also other Tzaddikim familiar in shomayims halls as much as down here, who also led campaigns to kill Stalin at the time it happened? If it was a secret it’s unverifiable, but The Rebbe literally led the Chassidim in a solemn recital of Hu Ra three times which no one understood why. 3 days later, we found out Stalin had died three days earlier. It’s public- at a farbrengen.
Same with everything else I listed, it’s all public stuff not secret closet avoda etc.
“I’m not dismissing the idea of a tzadik being po’el things in shomayim to save klal yisroel, end gezeros, daven for the fall of our enemies, etc…”
That’s great.
“ But it’s not what the rambam is talking about. He’s talking about retaking eretz yisroel, and his example is bar kochva.”
Forgive me but I must’ve missed where in the Rambam discussing criteria for bchezkas moshiach, he says that the candidate must retake Eretz Yisrael? I don’t remember Eretz Yisrael being mentioned at all there. The Romans back then were butchering yidden for keeping Torah and mitzvos, regardless of the fact they were living in Eretz Yisrael, and the Rambam doesn’t tie bar koziba to Eretz Yisrael. Correct me if I’m wrong…