There has been a lot of talk about how hard the offensive will be whenever it starts. As usual, there is a lot of evasive wishy-washy "analysis" from commentators who have little business commenting on the subject. I'm going to stick my neck once again out and my reputation and…

Authoritarians, conservatives, fascists, and oligarchs all have a problem with reality — it doesn’t support their narratives for long or stand up to scrutiny to any depth. We see this with Trump, who committed so many crimes that reality could never catch up to him. Voters forgot about the last…

… some time ago. Wars happen for many reasons in the modern world. Control of resources is a primary driver of violence, as it has been when conflicts involve smaller actors. The drive to war can still be resource-based for larger countries, but empires often go to war for ideological…

Okay, maybe I’m going a little crazy, and this is a rapidly developing story, but the more I think about it, the smarter it seems. Zelensky made a stop in Moldova today, and at the same time, Poland sent four cargo planes of small arms. …

There are a lot of calls to privatize public services in America and elsewhere, where unscrupulous kleptocrats see an opportunity to make a dime on the government's buck by transforming formerly affordable and functional services into costly and poor-quality money machines. Schools, prisons, health care, health insurance, water supplies, utilities…

No. What a dumb question. I hate clickbait headlines, sorry. Lend-Lease vs. Aid First, the total amount of aid authorized to Ukraine is $75 billion, but that is for the period until 2032, with most of it coming in 2023. Half of it will come this year. This support is outside the lend-lease…

There is a lot of anger to go around in the political sphere in America, and a lot of that anger is performative malarkey designed to energize the base. Accounts on Twitter like OccupyDemocrats and every GOP politician are designed to keep people angry, excited, anxious, vengeful, and anticipatory at…

Not all pacifists are wrong, and indeed most people are probably pacifists. I think that non-pacifists are a small minority of people and countries. …

But why? What’s the Point? I don‘t know if Ukraine is directly or indirectly responsible for the attacks on Moscow on 30 May 2023. As usual, there are multiple possible suspects, and I put the Ukrainian Armed Forces in last place as very unlikely. 1) Russian Government Most Likely. Russian public support for…