As Nuclear War Looms: Does Russia Have a Right to its Own Monroe Doctrine?

Russia

With news that Israeli intelligence has detected an “irregular presence” of nuclear-capable Russian bombers near Finland and retired general David Petraeus casually saying NATO would likely sink Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea fleet if Russia used a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, it’s perhaps time for a few questions: First, can we discuss a situation that …

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Good Cop, Bad Cop: The Future of the Joint Russia-China Declaration

REARRANGING THE WORLD ON RUSSIAN AND CHINESE TERMS On 4 February with great fanfare, communist China and Russia announced a new strategic partnership, as explained in their Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development, an English version of which was posted on the Kremlin’s official website here. …

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‘Apocalypse Now’ and The Green Beret as Saint and Sinner

20th Special Operations Squadron Green Hornets on alert at Ban Don, South Vietnam, July 1970.

I harbor little love or respect for Hollywood or it’s spawn, but I can still appreciate movies as an art form and how they often point to literary works, pieces of history and culture, that are worth remembering. Take “Apocalypse Now,” for example. Through that one film—lauded as one of cinema’s best, yet tiresome and …

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Gen. Mark Milley’s Wildly Arrogant Resignation Letter to Trump Is Revealed

Austin Milley

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley was appointed by former President Donald Trump in 2019 and remains in office under President Joe Biden. In a recently published excerpt from her forthcoming book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” New Yorker writer Susan Glasser recounts Milley’s service during the Trump …

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Communist China’s 4-7 August 2022 Exercise Off Taiwan; Chinese Saber Rattling and Intimidation by Captain Carl O. Schuster, US Navy Retired

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) just conducted a multi-day coordinated “exercise” in six locations that effectively surrounded Taiwan, which Beijing claimed was in response to US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s brief visit to Taipei on 2 August.

Thomas Paine

“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, …

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