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WAR IS A RACKET. That's a good book that apparently never took hold. The greatest book also had fundamental lessons that most don't embody or embrace.


Ah... Good ol Smedley Butler. My father used 'Smedley' as his password for a time. If you ever wondered where the Japanese got the idea of how to ...

I can agree with much of what Navigator says about immigrants only bringing in immediate family, and both parties having questionable motivations, but lining up a job when not in country would be hard. How would that work?

Tariffs would not be working as intended. They are not supposed to be issued ...

I wouldn't be surprised to see China have an ability to completely neutralize our aircraft carriers. The same way battleships became obsolete and the way the use of tanks has changed because of drones, China might have the ability to overload aircraft carrier defenses by using some AI powered ...

Our defense base isn't anywhere close to being prepared for a large-scale war against an opponent like China.

Just as bad, our disfunction makes us look weak to China, convincing them that we won't be willing to fight for something like Taiwan.


I don't doubt we'd be at a big military ...

Tankers last movement was before the strikes on Iran?
The top brass pep rally today seems pretty disconcerting.

Agreed, Trump likely advocated something or other. As China decides whether a Pacific war kicks off and China is doing well with the Tariff remake of the international economy, the ...

I was flipping though old files when I bumped into "For Thou Art With Us", an account of the towers collapse from someone who was near them on September 11. It seems that we have compartmentalized the events of that day. The emotional content has been put away, subverted by a ton of stuff that has ...

Back can college, I took a an intro to philosophy course. On the first day, the young professor started out with a non philosophical problem. A man was looking for a squirrel on a tree. The squirrel did not want to be seen, and kept the on the far side of the tree as the man circled it. The question ...

I can agree on the debt and the bubbles. Eventual trouble.

Normal? Trump is obsessed with tariffs. Many nations are changing their trade arrangements to get around the tariff expenses. China, Canada, Mexico and Europe are included. I would not describe this as normal. Still, if anything they will ...

Hmm... The major power that anchored the West since the Greatest Generation has been the US. With Trump's tariff obsession, he is a least temporary organizing a new international order excluding the US and much of its advanced industrial base. I'm really confident that this is short term, that ...

Maybe the worst part is that there's far too many who overestimate our own power and ability and underestimate the position that we're in.


I sympathize with FullMoon here.

I see Trump going through the same mental deterioration as his father, with overt loyalty to him combined with quiet ...