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…
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 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…
Africa, Awaken to Intentions of Putin, Xi Jinping
Africa’s future leaders will discover that they are expected to acquiesce to Russian and Chinese imperial foreign policy expectations in which Africans are tools, or they will be removed, even by signature Putin methods. A more accurately evocative image by which to remember the KGB ideals of the Russian nationalist Putin despite his diplomatic charm…
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, and more loan defaults by…
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 intimidation and violence. At any…
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 munitions and weapons supply to…
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: “These could be relabeled “disarmament…