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Ukraine at the Crossroads
The West is being increasingly confronted with the cold realization that Ukraine cannot win this war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has set as a threshold for victory, not only the recapture of territory up to his country's prewar borders, but the reclamation...
Indefensible: Homeland Defense is Not Available at This Time
I have a challenge for my readers and listeners. The US DoD has spent trillions of dollars and still can't defend the homeland against the ICBM/IRBM threat. "U.S. defense officials have stated that both existing terrestrial- and space-based sensor architectures are...
Double Standards Reveal the True Western Strategy
Two recent events in Europe have the potential to send shock waves well beyond the continent. They are significant both in themselves and in how their double standards chisel away at the West’s heroic narrative and reveal its true cynical strategy. The first is...
A Tale of Two Disputes: How China Handles Hanoi and Manila
A recent article in the South China Morning Post caught my eye—the topic being why Beijing has taken such an apparently different approach to its territorial disputes with Vietnam versus the similar disputes it has with the Philippines. Given the now weekly near...
9/5/24 Daniel Davis on Ukraine’s Reckless Incursion into Russia
Download Episode. Scott brings Daniel Davis on for a short discussion about the Ukrainian incursion in the Kursk region of Russia. They use Davis’s recent interview with Colonel Douglas Macgregor to jump into the strategic and tactical ineptitude that Ukraine’s...
9/4/24 Lyle Goldstein: We Are Again Living under Cold War Conditions
Download Episode. Scott interviews Lyle Goldstein about the return of Cold War conditions between the U.S. and its nuclear-armed adversaries. They discuss the Biden administration’s nuclear strategy pivot, the danger of what’s happening with North Korea, the...
Democratization as Regime Preservation
When in the 1970s it became increasingly clear Taipei and its allies in the United States were no longer going to be able to postpone Washington’s recognition of the Chinese Communist Party government in Beijing, the longtime dictator of Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek,...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
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...
