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I knew a woman about 10 years ago who was married to an Iranian.
They mentioned that his brother, who lived in Iran, had been recently hanged for belonging to a pro-western group.
I had been following this forum for a few years at that point, so I said to him "I'm very sorry. I understand, from ...

Andrew Branca, a lawyer specializing in self-defense (covered the Kyle Rittenhouse trial for legalinsurrection.com), also has a political blog.
I found his recent posting on the Trump / Musk feud to be enlightening. It's lengthy, and parts can be skipped, but it's actually quite entertaining in its ...

News makes it look like Trump has finally realized that Putin is a madman - driven by ideology, not governed by reason, not interested in negotiation. For all we know, Putin has a terminal cancer diagnosis, and cares only about cementing his legacy as the restorer of Russia's former glory.
How will ...

You've done a beautiful job, Higgie.
I wish I had a bigger yard with more sun.

I too was concerned about the site being down.
I tried to contact Navigator, but found his "comingstorms" email didn't work.
I think some of us (including Jason X) should exchange contact info in case site is disabled.
I'm really not sure this site is influential enough to merit a hacking shutdown ...

I would like to encourage all GD readers to to read this:

https://now.tufts.edu/2019/11/21/why-united-states-only-superpower

It is somewhat dated (2019), but I think still highly relevant. In a time of increasing pessimism and doomsaying, it offered me an engagingly different perspective - maybe ...

Instead, I do see them going for a much more aggressive approach, probably a surprise attack against USN targets and western Pacific US bases (Guam, Okinawa), once they decide to pull the trigger.

Navi,

That would really be an incredibly aggressive response. Do you really think they're that ...

That was a great analysis, and I sincerely hope you’re right. The more time that we have to correct our ship’s course, if that is still possible, the better.

Gordon Chang says Xi can't and won't negotiate, and discusses difficult position this puts him in:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/china-expert-reveals-why-xi-wont-budge-tariffs-with-trump

If we stay in trade war with China alone, but still trade with pretty much everyone else, we go through a ...

I work with a Russian who grew up in Ukraine who knows what the popular sentiment is over there. He says the average Russian feels like they have much more in common with the west than with the Chinese, whom they neither trust nor particularly like. Maybe it's a little like Iran, where the popular ...