Russia’s military is numerically powerful and historically weak. The Russians have lost far more wars than they’ve won including against opponents like the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese war where they should have been able to easily triumph in terms of sheer technological prowess alone. World War II, the war that most people think of Russia…

Read More…

The war between Russia and the Ukraine pits two groups of nationalists and two nationalist ambitions against each other. Russian and Ukrainian nationalism both have a long history and a great deal of blood behind them. Much like the middle east, the entire region has been marked by centuries of war and population transfers, military…

Read More…

Can you save the soul of a nation when you have no soul of your own? But give Biden some credit, he’s recognized that he can’t possibly run on the economy or on pandemic management, oh that’s left is empty virtue signaling about souls honor and decency from a man with no soul no honor…

Read More…

The faceoff in the Ukraine has been and remains very simple, Putin came to the battlefield bringing tanks, the West came to the battlefield bringing international norms. And whether it’s WWII or anytime since, tanks always beat international norms. Whatever one thinks about whether the United States should have been involved in the Ukraine, or…

Read More…

After signaling to Vladimir Putin, that he would be okay with a quote “minor incursion” quote into the Ukraine, Biden is trying to blame the consequences of that invasion, which include high gas prices, on oil companies. This isn’t the first time that Biden has cynically traded in this brand of cheap anti-capitalist rhetoric, but…

Read More…

Before and after the election, Democrats accused Trump appointee Postmaster General Louis DeJoy of seeking to destroy the postal service and of preventing everyone from getting their mail. While the attacks really exploded around the time of the election, and the obsession of the Democrats in getting mail ballots to as many of their supporters…

Read More…

Since some of the usual trolls have felt the need to make a case out of this, here’s what I actually wrote about a possible war in the Ukraine. There may indeed be an invasion and a war, but it won’t involve the United States. Eastern Europe, like the Middle East, has been learning the…

Read More…

The Supreme Court nomination gave Biden a pretty clear choice, he could reward Rep. Jim Clyburn, the politician who mobilized the black voters that won him the nomination, and therefore help put him in the White House, or he could reward the Left. Clyburn lobbied for Judge Michelle Childs. Manchin and a few Republicans got…

Read More…

Bringing the Emergencies Act into play meant that Canada was supposedly facing an unprecedented crisis caused by the Freedom Convoy that the state had to turn to the use of what were wartime powers to cope with the threat. Now, Trudeau has announced that, “Today, after careful consideration, we’re ready to confirm that the situation is no…

Read More…

I was talking to William Wallis on his show about the state of things in L.A. and I quoted some of my old figures about the politically inflated cost of housing. The first apartments cost an average of $479,000 a unit. Some went as high as $650,000 a unit. But that wasn’t good enough. Two years later,…

Read More…