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This essay is about the growing threat of civil war in Western societies. It is written as both a warning and a reckoning: an explicit attempt to confront, without denial or sensationalism, the mounting pressures that are pushing advanced democracies toward rupture. These pressures are examined through the framework of strategic analysis:…
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Donald Trump’s speech at Quantico to the U.S. Army’s general officers was a display of narcissism (not a display of strength). His attempt to emulate the late George C. Scott in his iconic role in Patton was a failure, because instead of delivering a concise and punchy message, Trump spoke in a monotone for more than an hour, repeating…
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Among the arguments of those who seem to be pushing for expanded war with the Russian Federation, one of the strangest is that Russia is a weak, third-world country and a “paper tiger.” Those who make this argument point to the protracted three-year conflict in Ukraine and scoff at the Russians’ inability to subjugate a much weaker…
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Are wars inevitable? War crimes? If we really don’t want wars, it behoves us to get serious about understanding their causes, and choose to radically address them. Otherwise, what’s the point? Feeling a “rush” with folks at political actions only perpetuates our addiction to anti-war rallies, which do nothing to stop wars from occurring.…
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No-one reads anymore. This is something that teachers of literature like me are always saying. “Every generation, at some point, discovers that students cannot read as well as they would like or as well as professors expect,” wrote the scholar of literacy Martha Maxwell in 1979. But more and more, educators are finding that the…
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The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a wake-up call for President John F. Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Both leaders realized that the military competition between the two nuclear powers could end in the annihilation of both countries.…
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Europe is plagued by a series of existential crises – all self-inflicted. A dominant therapeutic culture preaches utopian but deadly truisms. These wounds are now in their final stages, destroying the very civilization once conceived as “heaven on earth.” First rider: Radical climate utopianism Global warming hysteria wasn't…
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NATO is literally closer to all-out war with Russia than it has ever been before. Recently 19 Russian drones entered Polish airspace, and NATO fighter jets shot down several of them. “Polish fighter jets, with help from NATO allies, shot down multiple Russian drones that entered its eastern border early Wednesday, Sept. 10. It was…
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Lately, it has become increasingly evident that European citizens are growing weary of their political elites and the entrenched system of rotating figureheads who perpetuate the same policies year after year. The political establishment exhibits a rigid adherence to outdated approaches, and their arrogance – manifested in a belief that…
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