Biden’s war on Russia is just a side show. The real show is the End of the Not-So United States of America. Here in Japan, where I live, there are, or have been, many analogs. One would be the Battle for Saipan and the famous “banzai” charge by Japanese troops…

East and West: When The Twain Meet In The Tao of Vladimir Putin, I connected Putin’s mindset to Eastern philosophy, underscoring not only his strategic genius but principles that set him apart from Western-type politicians. With the Western Media trumpeting an amazing litany of lies such as Russian atrocities in Bucha and Kramatorsk, Zelensky and his Nazi puppet-masters…

Everyone’s favorite military “expert”, Scott Ritter is much in the news, despite being wrong half the time and continually reversing himself. How we love our “experts”. Ritter, as you may know, is a former Marine Corps office, who achieved prominence in the prelude to the Iraq War as a…

As you may know, some organizations, including SouthFront are talking about UAF “successes” in the Karkhov region as the RF pulls back and re-positions to strengthen itself in the Izyum area. SouthFront has generally taken the position that the Russians are fighting with one hand tied behind their collective back…

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Reasons Why Rome Fell 1. unwinnable wars with “ Barbarian” tribes. … 2. over-reliance on slave labor. … 3. inequality 4. unemployment 5. inflation 6. debasement of popular culture, violent spectacle 7. the rise of the Eastern Empire. … 8. over-expansion and military overspending. … political corruption and political instability. … 10. The arrival of the central and west Asian and east European peoples collectively called the “Huns” and the Barbarians encroachment on imperial provinces such as Britain

The NYT likes to tell stories. Kids like Mommy and Daddy to tell them stories, or better still read to them from picture books . They don’t care if they are true or not. They just want good stories, which Mommy and Daddy like, too. That mental template persists so when you grow up you read…

Is the war across the sea? Is the war behind the sky? Have you each and all gone blind: Is the war inside your mind? Humans weep at human death All the talkers lose their breath Movies paint a chaos tale Singers see and poets wail All the world knows the score But no man can find the war…

I had predicted that Mariupol would fall by the end of this week and attention would turn to Nikolaev. Well, not quite. Mariupol Certainly, the RF now has control of all of urban Mariupol with the “Nazis” effectively imprisoned underground in the Azovstal plant. The Russians called on them to surrender…