Category Archives: War Commentary

History, Humor, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Satire, War Commentary

The History Of Palestine

This is brilliant.

History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

The Beginning Of The End

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It was always inevitable, given the intrinsic corruption, idiocy, incompetence and increasing dementia, but four years ago what would be seen to be the hammer blow against the Biden presidency occurred that begin its downward spiral, with the disastrous Afghanistan retreat, one of the greatest debacles if not indeed the greatest one, in the history of American foreign policy.

Business, History, Political Commentary, Space, Technology and Society, War Commentary

Trump’s Second-Term Space Policy

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Yes, it’s an ongoing mess.

[Wednesday-morning update]

Yes, putting a nuclear reactor (in fact, several of them) on the Moon is a great idea, but it’s out of context with the policy mess. If we want to put reactors on the Moon, we have to come up with a scalable, affordable transportation infrastructure to get not only them, but lots of things there. We don’t currently have one, and no one in the administration seems to be concerned about it.

General, History, War Commentary

Gettysburg

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Today is the anniversary of the third day of the battle.

Vicksburg fell the next day, on the Fourth of July, marking the beginning of the end for the South. Vicksburg refused to celebrate the holiday for seven decades.