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Category Archives: War Commentary
The Manchurian Candidate
Why Xi wants Gavin.
Iran Thoughts
Sadly, this is my take, too. It was a mistake for Trump to tell the Iranians he had their back if he wasn’t going to follow through.
America’s Industrial Infrastructure
We have a dangerous resilience gap.
Lawrence Of Arabia
An interesting new look at the history from Bob Zimmerman.
Ameliamentum
The anime style is not my cup of tea, but this could rouse the British lads.
Stop what you're doing and give this a watch 👀
— Amelia (@AmeliajakSolana) January 31, 2026
This is the BEST Amelia video I've seen. @Skyebrows has outdone themselves – the quality, the detail, the easter eggs.
Amelia is more than a meme now. She's a movement 💜pic.twitter.com/l37BeQuNk6
A Mass Hostage Situation In Iran?
And by “mass,” I mean by the millions.
If the administration still intends to do something, I wonder what they have planned?
[Update a couple minutes later[
What can’t the Democrats speak frankly about Iran?
Stop Using Mercator Projection
Why Greenland is important.
Greenland – As viewed from a proper map
— Object Zero (@Object_Zero_) January 6, 2026
Why Greenland? Well because Moscow bases almost all of their strategic military assets on the Kola Peninsula next to Finland. This is where the Russian ICBM silos, submarine bases, and their strategic bombers are.
If you look at the… pic.twitter.com/z6qECCJ3u5
I’m pretty sure that Copenhagen is not capable of defending it.
[Update a while later]
I can't believe this needs to be explained but:
— Robert Anderson (@ProfRobAnderson) January 6, 2026
1. The US is not going to attack Denmark.
2. The bluster from Trump is to give encouragement to Greenlanders for a vote of independence, and a warning to Denmark not to ignore the results of such a vote.
3. Once the vote for…
[Thursday-morning update]
The unfortunate Greenland kerfuffle.
[Bumped]
Happy New Year
This would appear to be both a message to Maduro, and the Mullahs… https://t.co/HyTmYyNY6f
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) January 3, 2026
[Saturday-afternoon update]
Eclectic food for thought, from Blake Powers.
[Monday-morning update]
Trump, Maduro, and what’s next?
I just hope they have a better plan than Bush and Cheney did after removing Saddam. It wouldn’t be hard.
[Tuesday-morning update]
How snatching Maduro screws up everyone else’s plans.
This is the most assertive foreign policy against evil since Reagan. Dubya thought he was fighting the “axis of evil,” but he was far too soft on Islam.
[Bumped]
[Update a few minutes later]
The argument going around the Internet is that Cuba, Venezuela and probably Iran soon are no threat because they have completely collapsed with no power, no food, no water. Hence any actions against them are pure cruelty. If anything the rich capitalists should bail them out.…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 6, 2026
Islamism
It’s time for zero tolerance for it.