Trump may have killed NATO, too; Zelensky learned the hard way how useless the organization is
People overlook the fact that Trump’s original job at his family’s business was collecting rent. He never forgot how to evict someone.
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Tariff Tantrums: How Picking a Fight Over Fertilizer Could Backfire on U.S. Farmers
Nothing screams diplomatic genius like slapping tariffs on the very countries that keep your farms running.
The Tragicomedy of Volodymyr Zelensky: From Slapstick to Statesmanship (Sort Of)
Once upon a time in Ukraine, a comedian rose to fame playing a bumbling everyman who becomes president in a feel-good TV satire.
Not Losing Is not the Same as Winning
We’ve had a great many recent Presidents who haven’t played for the win, and a couple who have. The winners want to accomplish something big. The “not winners” want to avoid failure.
Tom Uryga : Wither Our American Industrial Base?
The American industrial base has withered significantly over the last 4 or 5 decades, and especially in the last 20 years.
Poking the Bear: How the West Orchestrated the Ukraine War and Got Exactly What It Wanted
Ah yes, the Ukraine war—the war that never had to happen, but was too profitable and geopolitically convenient for the power-hungry elites to resist.
Options For Gaza And Gazans
Nobody wants the Gazans fomenting strife in their countries. What needs to be done?
It might be easier to support Ukraine if the proponents would actually tell us how Ukraine could win
Donald Trump campaigned on ending the war in Ukraine and many of his supporters, and voters — and yes, I voted for Mr Trump — did so based on that issue. My older daughter is in the United States Army Reserve, and the last thing I want is to see her called up to join the fight in Ukraine.
Orbán Warfare; Hungary’s leader wants that DOGE in the window. Arf, Arf
Eliminate USAID and you eliminate a worldwide, totalitarian government run out of DC by the Democrat Party. Hoo boy.
Will any of the pro-#Hamas demonstrators rethink their positions following the brutal murders of Kfir and Ariel Bibas?
The Islamists know that hostages have value. From President Reagan trading arms for hostages held by Hezbollah in Lebanon, to the exchange of 1,027 ‘Palestinian’ terrorists — including Yahya Sinwar — for one captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit in October of 2011, the Islamic militants have realized that a few civilized Westerners have an outsized …
Bad Causes Attract Bad People
This might be more in William Teach’s wheelhouse than mine, but when this article came up in my feeds, I couldn’t resist. From London’s The Telegraph: Gen Z’s hypocrisy on climate change has made Greta Thunberg look a fool If her generation are so worried about the ‘climate emergency’, explain the findings of this new …
A General’s Consensus
General Mark Milley called Chinese Gen. Li Zuocheng on Oct. 30, 2020, four days before the presidential election and again on Jan. 8, 2021, two days after Trump supporters marched on the U.S. Capitol.
J D Vance’s Churchillian Speech
Vice President JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, Feb 14, 2025 was like Winston Churchill sounding the alarm about Hitler and the NAZIs then in turn warning about Soviet Communism with his famous Iron Curtain speech.
Trump shares the spotlight; He can trust Vance, Rubio and Hegseth to speak for MAGA
At the annual Munich Security Conference last week, Trump wanted to blast Eurocrats with the sobering truth that the USA is no longer interested in being their unpaid security staff. So he sent Vice President JD Vance to deliver the message.
The First Casualty of War: How Freedom, Peace, and Truth Died After 9/11
War does not merely take lives on the battlefield—it takes something even more precious. It takes the truth. And when the truth dies, freedom and peace follow.
Why Democrats Hate Hegseth
Democrats may have lost the military. In his first term, the four stars kept Trump from being the actual commander-in-chief blocking him with Milley, Mattis and Marx leading the way.
The Boss Is Back: Vice President J. D. Vance Executes a People’s Elbow Smackdown From The Top Rope At The Global Security Summit In Munich
Germans Report An Unprecedented Run On “Butt Salve” Cream Across The European Union
World War III Watch: Warmongers Gotta Warmonger!
It was just Thursday that we noted former National Security Advisor and former Ambassador John Bolton and his criticism of President Donald Trump’s phone call to Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, concerning Russia’s war in Ukraine. That seems to be a constant theme among the ‘neocons.’ They think it’s horrible, just horrible, that Ukraine might …
USAID Was Created to Counter Communism, but Evolved into an Opposite Agenda!
Though a number who work at USAID have good intentions and do good work, the agency has become corrupt, partisan, and ideological particularly the end of the Cold War.
The Roaches are Running for Cover from the Exterminator-in-Chief
During my career as a foreign correspondent, I spent a lot of time in what could only be called roach hotels. Time and again, I would turn on the room or bathroom lights and watch as scores of cockroaches skittered into cracks and drains.