The Ouster of Christopher Wray
If President-elect Trump had learned anything since his first term he would have retained Christopher Wray as FBI Director for the duration of Wray’s term. Instead, Trump ousted an effective FBI director who served in the best traditions of the FBI’s national security and law enforcement missions. Specifically Mr. Trump hated that FBI agents under…
Keeping the U.S.A. Out of Foreign Nation State Hands
Here is a historic quote no less true today during attempts to put Kash Patel over the FBI, Tulsi Gabbard over the ODNI, and Pete Hegseth over the Defense Department: “If Russia seizes the West’s secret services, it controls Western policies. If it taps into Western intelligence services, it makes…
Who Has America’s Center of Gravity: The United States of America’s Race for President, 2024
The Center of Gravity of the United States is mostly about who the great majority of Americans really are, deep down, toward others. Deep down, are they about loving their neighbors or hating them? If hatred rules, the United States will fall apart in division and poverty, and our adversaries…
Africa, Awaken to Intentions of Putin, Xi Jinping
As African leaders start to realize that Russia’s and China’s anti-colonial talk is a hypocritical ruse for their own racial-colonial ambitions they will admit to themselves that Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi harbor imperial goals for the Global South. Mr. Putin pursues similar goals in Ukraine and Xi…
Putin Perpetuates Mass Abuse of the Poor and Middle Classes via Weaponized Migration
Historic Repeat Thesis: The regime of Vladimir Putin is one of a number of resurgent vanguard dictatorships with ideological-DNA inherited from super-nationalist strains of autocratic authoritarianism shared by Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. Like them, Putin commits mass collateral damage and displacement abuse against poor and middle class peoples at home…
To Shorten Wars and Prevent Wider War The Biden Administration Should Lift Allies’ Conventional Strike Restrictions Against Iran’s and Russia’s Conventional Military Targets
October 4, 2024 Ukraine & Israel: Ukraine and Israel face common adversaries axially aligned. Russia and China enable Iran and its terror proxies with lethal supply and know-how to wage war against Israel. Russia and China could sanction Iran but do not. Iran, China, and North Korea likewise back Russia’s…
Strategic Lens on China’s Economic Vicissitudes
Recent Economic Backdrop Appears as Organic Economic Downturn By Summer 2024, China’s economy had reportedly reached average GDP growth between 5.3% in Q1 and 4.7% in Q2 on course with meeting its 2024 goal of 5%. However, during Q3 China saw a dive in consumer spending, 17%-18% young urban unemployment,…
In the News: Observations & Analyses
Ukraine: AP reported President Volodymyr Zelensky’s words at a ceremony commemorating the massacre at Babyn Yar in Kyiv of nearly 34,000 Jews during 48 hours in the 1941 Nazi occupation: “Babyn Yar is vivid proof of the atrocities that regimes are capable of when led by leaders who rely on…
Strategy Essay: Zelensky’s Unmet Requests are Xi Jinping’s Political Capital for Invasion of Taiwan
Chinese leader Xi Jinping uses China’s manufacturing power to help Russia’s aggression against Ukraine not out of friendship for President Vladimir Putin, but because a Putin victory in Ukraine can help him ram through his imperial military agenda for Taiwan and the region. The U.S. and free allies, by their…
Defending Ukraine, Changing War with Anti-Weapon Weapons
In February 2015, we wrote about a newly conceived category of advanced weapon systems purposed or repurposed to destroy aggressor states’ conventional weapons, ammo, and war supplies while such are used for aggression, yet refining the weapons to be ever more precise to that purpose, reducing collateral damage and depopulation:…