So often, critics of the regime are called conspiracy theorists. Those same people calling us conspiracy theorists also tell us that every foreign politician is a dictator of unsound mind who can’t be reasoned with (Kaiser Wilhelm, Adolf Hitler, Ho Chi Minh, the...
I happen to think that consensual dueling has many positive aspects for civilized societies that would make our lives better. Politicians especially liked to take part in these martial contests, the possibilities in the contemporary milieu are delightful. For those...
"Today's threat to our national security is not a matter of military weapons alone. We know of new methods of attack. The Trojan Horse. The Fifth Column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery." Such were the remarks from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's...
Republicans are terrible on China. Examples abound, but perhaps the most instructive illustration of this long-term handicap comes from the following quotation: “We must be prepared to go it alone in China if our allies desert us. We must not fool ourselves into...
It has become increasingly apparent that any notion of U.S. “strategic ambiguity” with respect to Taiwan is dead. Both the Joe Biden administration’s rhetoric and U.S. military deployments in the western Pacific indicate that the United States will come to Taiwan’s...
https://youtu.be/f7HG2ljcgTk First, we should recognize that institutions such as states show a natural aggressiveness. The explanation is very simple. If you have to fund your own aggressive ventures yourself, out of your own pocket, that will somewhat curtail your...
Do we have a shortage of female heroes in this country? Are virtuous women that scarce? Or is it simply that Women's History Month, by eliminating women from the conversation who don't fit the narrative of the State Department and the Pentagon, failed to achieve its...
Episode Notes I review and discuss Sean McMeekin's brilliant tome on Stalin being the ascendant and most successful antagonist in WWII. References: Sean McMeekin Stalin's War: A New History of World War II John Koster Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR's White...
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
