Putin’s Willpower: The 25% Tariffs on Canada and Mexico
The only effective purpose of hitting both Canada and Mexico with 25% tariffs at once, besides causing economic havoc, damaging free trade resource-price efficiencies, and levying a hidden tax on Americans, is to enrage Canadians and Mexicans to make more, not fewer, likely to collaborate with the Putin regime and its more powerful totalitarian partner…
U.S.A.: The Land of the Free, Home of the Brave is a Country Owned by the People, Not a plutocracy
The Trump Administration would coerce allies to treat the U.S. as an imperial company that they either must pay to play with, or be acquired by. The implication of this is that the people of the U.S.A. are not free, but are now represented by an autocratic CEO or president. Yet the U.S.A. is not…
Forecasting: AI is Reading & Watching the Actions of its Founders
For the purposes of this green paper, consider “AI” to mean evolutionary artificial neural networks of human and human-error-based artificial design of different levels of complexity that evolve in unpredictable ways due to limited knowledge, entropy, ignorance, tunnel vision, unknown unknowns, coding error, design, hacking, or unforeseen logical twists and turns combined. The use of…
MAGA Quandary: Are The Majority 47’s Boss or Have They Abdicated to a Minority Extreme?
[Above photo: Proud Boys, pardoned by Trump, as seen with one of them with a shirt praising the Nazi’s perpetration of the Holocaust and specifically adopting Hitler’s obsession with blaming the Jewish people.) Chad Loder and one more author. https://archive.today/20201218023157/https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1338985747227930624Fair use. File:Proud Boys wearing shirt with Neo-Nazi slogan 6 Million Wasn’t Enough – Dec 2020.jpgUploaded:…
Ideas for Dealing with Drone Threats to U.S. & Allied Paratroopers
As NATO’s new Secretary General lauds airborne capabilities within NATO there are questions and answers about the survivability of airborne troops in the age of anti-personnel drones and increasing swarm capabilities. The issue requires intelligent planning, defense tech innovation, operational innovation, and OODA loop work. As early as 2015 some, such as scholar Marc R.…
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense Nominee
The Hang-Chadian Nature of Divorcesque Confirmation Hearings: Does Pete Hegseth have the right maturity, experience, character, and personal constitution to be U.S. Secretary of Defense? Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Confirmation Committee argued over whether this particular American son was ready to protect the family estate. Except in this case, the partisan parenting philosophies…
Pitch: Tech Firms Should Provide In-Person ID Verification & Related Secure Tech Service
For security of identity, it makes little sense for companies to require people to scan and send official documents proving their ID across servers on the internet to an online company that for whatever reason has flagged online activity or presence as “suspicious.” For one, consider that the company security challenger is communicating with a…
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 them serve the Kremlin. That’s…
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 will move in and rule…
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 and abroad. Like them, he…