A new updated CRS report dated 5 August 2024 is out on the USS Ford debacle. I read these reports so you don't have to. For plenty of reasons, the carrier is the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Yet the US insists on spending tens of billions of dollars on...
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Mali Cuts Ties with Ukraine Over Kiev’s Support for Al-Qaeda
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 6, 2024 | News
Mali has severed its diplomatic ties with Ukraine following an attack by the local Al-Qaeda affiliate on Malian forces. Kiev called the move short-sighted. Late last month, opposition forces, including an al Qaeda affiliate in the Sahel, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam...
The F35 Follies: Britannia Rules a Little
by Bill Buppert | Aug 6, 2024 | Blog
My recommendation to the British MoD: don't buy anymore of these flying failure factories. U.K. planned to buy138 F-35s, bought 48, delivered 35, aims at 75 by 2025. Judging from the delays and failures universally in the program, achieving a delivery of all...
COI #651: The Price America Pays for Netanyahu’s Wars
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 6, 2024 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #651, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from Israel and Ukraine. Odysee Rumble Donate LBRY Credits bTTEiLoteVdMbLS7YqDVSZyjEY1eMgW7CP Donate Bitcoin 36PP4kT28jjUZcL44dXDonFwrVVDHntsrk Donate Bitcoin Cash Qp6gznu4xm97cj7j9vqepqxcfuctq2exvvqu7aamz6 Patreon...
Corruption-A-Go-Go: Taliban Continues to Receive US Funding
by Bill Buppert | Aug 5, 2024 | Blog
The US State Department needs to be disbanded and all overseas embassies should be converted to ATM-style kiosks. The Taliban has just received 239 million debt-bucks in US State Department aid. 239 millions dollars. The disaster in Afghanistan continues to cascade...
News Roundup 8/5/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 5, 2024 | News Roundup
Venezuela US Rejects Venezuelan Election Results, Declares Opposition Candidate the Winner AWC Ukraine Poll Shows Germans Oppose New US Missile Deployment AWC Zelensky Says Ukraine and the ‘Whole World’ Wants Russia at Peace Summit AWC Ukraine Orders Evacuations From...
Further China Reading
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 3, 2024 | Blog
From a reader: “Hello Joseph. I just ordered your book, and I noticed it was short. I would like to know if there is an up to date book on American foreign policy towards China that you could recommend that is well-researched and truthful with good policy suggestions....
Raptor Woes Continue to Plague the Air Force
by Bill Buppert | Aug 2, 2024 | Blog
More mismanagement and strategic deficit disorder at the Pentagon. The F22 Raptor is a very capable late 20th century aircraft and arguably superior to the much more expensive and increasingly anachronistic F35; it is being put out to pasture early because of...
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Focus on Incentives, Ignore ‘Good Intentions’. Keith Knight & Joseph Solis-Mullen.
https://youtu.be/ybD7vbnNDy4 The current President can teach us a lot about how incentives can alter a persons behavior. Assume you agree with me, that Trump is a nefarious actor. Was Trump more of a threat to humanity in the voluntary sector, or the political...
Radar Follies: The Delicate Golden Thread
What happens when billions of dollars of Western radars are shattered and decimated? Once fire direction can’t translate & collate Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) inputs to operable cueing and precise targeting for munitions, efficacy of fires...
Rules for Radicals, The Purpose w/John Weeks
John and I continue reading and commentary on the old revolutionary text, Rule for Radicals.
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Signals of War? US Evacuates Embassy in Israel, Trump Unhappy with Iran
Sirens don’t always sound before a war—sometimes the warning is a bland memo telling diplomats to pack. We open with the U.S. pullback of non‑emergency staff from Israel and track how similar moves in Lebanon and likely elsewhere signal more than routine caution. From...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Americans Don’t Want War with Iran – US Officials Have a New Plan to Manipulate Them
A quiet leak says the loud part: some senior voices in Washington think the politics “work better” if Israel strikes Iran first. Not because it changes the threat. Because it changes the story Americans hear. We pull that thread and walk through the actual mechanics...
Anti-War Blog – The War Cycle
The special alliance of Israel and the United States have attacked Iran, again. How severe and protracted this war shall become, we do not know. The lapdogs of empire likely will support their masters, the usual coalition such as America’s Ghurkas, or Australia, what...










