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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…