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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Rules for Radicals: The Genesis of Tactic Proxy w/John Weeks
John and I continue reading and commentary on Rules for Radicals
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Larry Johnson: Trump’s Strait of Hormuz Nightmare
A ceasefire memo is supposed to stop wars, not rename them. We start with the weekend’s flashpoint in the Strait of Hormuz and ask a blunt question: if the MOU bans initiating military operations and the threat or use of force, how do we end up with drone attacks,...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Will Iran Force the US Out of the Middle East?
Tucker Carlson saying “I’m out” on the Republican Party is not just a headline, it is a stress test for how American voters think about loyalty, war, and who our politics actually serves. I walk through why his break is landing with millions of people, how Israel and...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: The White House Spin
Something big is shifting in the Middle East, and you can hear it in the gap between what US officials say publicly and what regional actors are doing quietly. We walk through the latest reporting and remarks around Iran, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and a...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Dave DeCamp: Israel First Republicans Are Turning on Trump
Trump says Iran is “being very nice” and “agreeing to everything,” but that sales pitch doesn’t survive contact with the actual reporting. We sit down with Antiwar.com’s Dave DeCamp to sort out what the US Iran memorandum of understanding seems to concede, why both...
The Kyle Anzalone Show with Larry Johnson: Trump, Iran, And The Real Leverage Behind A Deal
Netanyahu says Israel will stay in a security zone in South Lebanon as long as it takes. That single line turns out to be a stress test for everything else happening at once: the Trump administration’s Iran talks, the push for a Lebanon ceasefire, and the question of...











