No, you don’t win wars with “deals.” And trade wars are neithet “good” or “easy to win.”
Trump often doesn’t seem to recognize the nature of who he’s dealing with.
Category Archives: History
A U.S. Space Force
Well, this is interesting. The Acting Secretary of the Air Force is advocating to amend Article X to create a U.S. Space Force as a separate service.
College
…does not make you a better person.
I’m reading a review copy of an interesting new book from Bob Zimmerman on the history of slavery in America. One of the points he makes is that one of the things that created the cultural environment for it was the nature of how the Cavaliers founded Virginia, with the class bias and denigration of physical labor they brought from England.
James Comey
Now that Mueller is history, he’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.
[Update late morning]
Democrats grudgingly admit that the Mueller testimony was a disaster.
[Update about noon]
The day the Resistance’s dreams died.
Evoloterra On The Space Show
Our discussion from Sunday afternoon is now on line.
Hong Kong
Things are about to get ugly.
This may be like Budapest in 1956, or Prague in 1968. How will we, and Britain, respond?
Trump’s “Racist” Tweet
Was it malice, or ignorance? Given the level of his ignorance on so many subjects, I’m going to go with the latter.
Boris Johnson
Will he soon be the most popular leader in the world?
I had lunch with Iain Murray in DC a few weeks ago, who went to school with him. It will be interesting, if nothing else. I asked Iain if May was the worst PM since Chamberlain. “Lord North,” he replied.
[Update Tuesday morning]
With him seeming to be the next PM, the New York Sun is waiting for Boris Johnson.
[Update a couple minutes later]
From the third link:
When it comes to rhetoric and eloquence, he is the anti-Trump.
[Bumped]
[Late-morning update]
Cometh the hour, cometh the man.
[Bumped again]
“We Don’t Need Space Colonies”
I don’t know where to start with this ignorant burning of a field of strawmen.
“Rapid Fire Bullet Delivery Systems”
I just saw this tweet:
It reminded me of this old post I wrote in the early aughts. Here is the original, with comments at the time.