Category: Military

War in Ukraine III: an Interim Assessment

July 19, 2023 Peter Turchin Sixteen months into the war the final outcome of this conflict is still uncertain. Public statements from both sides continue to express unbounded confidence in their eventual victory (see, for example, Russia’s Strategic Failure and Ukraine’s Secure Future). But which way has the […]

When did WWIII become cool?

By Tom Woods Like many of you, no doubt, yesterday I read that Joe Biden had ordered 3,000 reservists to be ready for Europe deployments. What did it mean? US Senator Mike Lee of Utah shared what seems to me to be a plausible understanding of what’s going on: […]

The capitalists are circling over Ukraine

The war is creating massive profit opportunities BY Thomas Fazi Two weeks ago, thousands of representatives from businesses and governments from across the world gathered in London to “support Ukraine’s recovery”. But was the gathering of all those Western corporate elites at the Ukraine Recovery Conference entirely altruistic? […]

When Black Swans Mate

By William S. Lind, Traditional Right As almost everybody knows, a black swan is a new term for an unexpected event that has major consequences. Like avian black swans, such events are rare. But when they hit, panic, overreaction, and demands for safety at any price tend to […]

The Russian Dam Cracks

By William S. Lind, Traditional Right The Prigozhin putsch was a crack in the Russian dam, the dam being the Russian state. So far, the dam is holding. But behind it are the swirling, dirty currents of Fourth Generation war, in the form of all the non-state loyalties […]

Russian Anarchists on the Wagner Mutiny

Statements from Three Anarchist Organizations 2023-06-24 Current Events Български čeština čeština Deutsch Early on June 24, Vladimir Putin addressed Russia about the unfolding rebellion of the Wagner private military company, saying that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion is “pushing the country toward anarchy and fratricide.” This is a misuse of […]

The Anti-War Movement Needs to Recognize Biden’s Achievements

This article makes an interesting comparison/contrast with Christian Parenti’s analysis of Trump’s supposed imperial drawdown. While Trump’s foreign policy represented a return to pre-WW2 conservative isolationism, Biden’s foreign policy greatly resembles Jimmy Carter’s post-Vietnam version of liberal internationalism. Apparently, both the left and right wings of the ruling […]

Trump’s Real Crime Is Opposing Empire

This is an important article by Christian Parenti, a Marxist commentator, who argues that the gist of Trump’s foreign policy was a return to 19th-century style xenophobic isolationism, marked by reducing US presence in Europe and Asia, and even the Middle East. Although Parenti doesn’t discuss Trump’s hawkish […]

Ukraine: What would victory look like?

A plea for outcome-focused discussions about the war in Ukraine Edward Slavsquat Jun 17, 2023 On Friday, Brian Gerrish of UK Column joined Jesse Zurawell on his TNT radio program to discuss how Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine is reported (both in mainstream and alternative media), and […]

Remembering the Horrors of D-Day

June 10 2023 Good morning from Washington, where the incumbent president’s law enforcement agencies are going after his greatest rival in hopes of disqualifying him for the White House. Here’s what Americans should do, Steve Bradbury writes. In California, lawmakers target parents who don’t embrace their kids’ interest […]

Inside Army Jungle School

June 10, 2023 Hello, Insiders. As tensions with China build, the US Army is training soldiers for jungle warfare in Hawaii. In a new documentary, Graham Flanagan, Insider’s chief video correspondent, spent 12 days inside this training course — where soldiers learn to fight, move, and survive in […]

The bloody reality of the ‘war’ for Australia: How Aboriginals used guns and horses to resist white settlement – and killed TWICE as many colonists than soldiers who died fighting since WWII

By Stephen Gibbs for Daily Mail Australia Australia’s frontier wars were fought from 1788 to 1930s Up to 120,000 Aboriginal people and 5,000 settlers killed New book says First Nations victories have been overlooked  The popular perception of Australia’s frontier wars seems confined to bands of white marauders […]

How Nato seduced the European Left

BY Lily Lynch In January 2018, Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg held an unprecedented press conference with Angelina Jolie. While InStyle reported that Jolie “was dressed in a black off-the-shoulder sheath dress, a matching capelet and classic pumps (also black)”, there was a deeper purpose to this meeting: sexual violence in […]

El Nino Speaks 85: In the Navy

Nuclear Caudillo comes back to talk about how wokism is undermining the United States Navy 3 hr ago Listen to José Niño sound off on contemporary political affairs. Share Has the United States Navy gone completely woke? Nuclear Caudillo makes another appearance at El Nino Speaks to talk […]