Colombia may soon join the growing ranks of Latin American nations led by fanatically pro-Zionist presidents who view alignment with Israel as a ticket to Washington’s good graces. Abelardo de la Espriella, the right-wing Colombian presidential candidate known as “El Tigre,” has made his pro-Israel stance a central pillar of…
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Trump’s War: The Kind of Military Misadventure That Ends Empires
History’s lessons are unsparing about what Trump’s micro-military fiasco is costing a country already in imperial decline. Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us an eloquent description of what modern historians now call “micro-militarism.” When an imperial power…
The New Russian-Indian Military Logistics Pact Sends Five Messages to the World
Russia isn’t at risk of becoming a Chinese vassal nor is India at risk of becoming an American one. Russia’s legal information portal recently published the details of last year’s “Reciprocal Exchange of Logistics Support” (RELOS) military logistics pact with India. RT’s Air Marshal Anil Chopra (Retired) wrote…
A New Middle Eastern Power Paradigm
Iran won the war. There are consequences for being on the wrong side of the power equation, a reality that the US and its Gulf Arab allies are learning the hard way. It is a bad time to be a Gulf Arab State. The United States and Israel took…
Why You Need to Be a Religious Fanatic
For so many years I failed to understand how real Satan is—and how actively he’s involved in the affairs of this world. He always seemed less like a real adversary and more like a cartoon bogeyman meant to scare us away from Ouija boards and vampire cults. (In some…
What Does the Iran War Pause Mean?
The pause we’re talking about began with the so-called “ceasefire”. That heralded an end to the bombing campaign—and Iran’s missile campaign—but also the beginning of Operation Economic Fury: a pivot to a naval blockade. It was widely expected that Trump would make good on his threats by attempting to…
Why the West So Often Fails at Geo-Politics
Some fifteen years ago I wrote that western reliance on its lens of secular rationality was no longer adequate as a means to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was becoming obvious — even then — that the future of the region would be one of wars increasingly defined by religious…
Villains of Judea: Douglas Feith
The shadow architect of the Iraq War. Few individuals embody the conflict between American national interest and the demands of world jewry as sharply as Douglas Feith. Throughout his career, Feith has operated as a consummate advocate for the Jewish state, positioning himself within the highest echelons of the…
Democrats: They Stole Your Party and You Thanked Them for It
A Non-MAGA Republican Explains The Greatest Con Job In American Political History To The People Who Got Conned. That was always the goal. Every moment that made you cringe, every policy that made you feel like a stranger in your own political home, every story that made you turn…
The 5 Mistakes of Orbán and the European Populists
The most important contemporary political phenomenon in Europe is the rise of so-called “populism” (sometimes also called “sovereignism”), which stems from what the mainstream media label as “the far right”. In practice, ‘populism’ is generally used simply to denote a demagogic form of politics in which a leader, in…