I hope you are having a great day. Stay strong and never lose hope and never stop pushing ahead for a better life for future generations. I hope this picture of my granddaughter can uplift your day.
God is good.
The period when universities were bastions of free inquiry and serious intellectual debate was v short: the 19th and 20th centuries. Today they are reverting to their original medieval model: reinforcing a prevailing orthodoxy, i.e. today's progressive liberalism.
The failure to mention those hostages was a disgrace. Another important contrast with his predecessor: Trump saw getting American hostages home as a matter of national purpose, not just good optics.
I grew up in an America where everyone understood the U.S. government would move heaven and earth to rescue its citizens from low-life terrorists
Now the President can't even bother to mention hostages taken on his watch
I'm not old, but a lot has changed...
France (I lived there for two years in the 1980's) has no assimilationist ethic. Instead the political elite pretend these immigrants aren't there, while being secretly grateful they provide a cheap source of labor. Now that neglect and denial, has exploded in their face.
I'm sensing a turning-point, not just on COVID and the antifa insurgency, but on what happens in November.
My original hunch that Trump will win, seems more and more worth considering.
The definition of great books is that no matter how times you read them, you always find something new. That's why I suggest
@ScottAdamsSays
read 1984: I'm confident his take on the George Orwell classic will open eyes and minds.
The US is now going to be facing a three-front demand on its military posture and defense industrial base resources: Ukraine, Taiwan, and now Israel.
The Biden administration and our defense industry is not prepared for what's coming.
The Biden administration's weakness has now thrust the US into a position where it could be drawn into not one not two but three major theater conflicts: in Ukraine, in the Middle East, and over Taiwan.
This is called a crisis.
I knew David Frum back in the day. This person with his twitter handle is clearly an imposter, pretending to be an imbecile in order to defame the real Frum. Shameful.
When I wrote How The Scots Invented the Modern World, I helped to rally the forces for Devolution.
Now it seems the sequel should be, How The Scots Achieved Political Insanity.
Let's be brutally honest. The Palestinians, through their leadership, have thrown away every opportunity history has offered them. They've chosen violence and death, every time. I don't see how they rank as victims.
Oslo itself was violated within moments of it being signed. Even before Oslo II, Arafat was sneaking wanted terrorists into areas that he now controlled. Oslo, he admitted in Arabic, was a deception.
This sort of discourse no longer has a place in thinking about what's next for the Middle East.
The Palestinians have dealt themselves out of the future. So has
@MSNBC
.
The largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Women, children, elderly kidnapped and executed. Palestinians celebrating in the streets.
And yet
@MSNBC
brings on terror-apologist Shibley Telhami to say this is really about *Palestinian* "despair."
Trying to suggest
@ElbridgeColby
or anyone doubting our current Ukraine strategy as pro Putin is disgusting. I blame social media, reducing everything to ad hominem.
I understand the emotional response by people like
@EHunterChristie
concerning the
#RussiaUkraineWar
but from an American strategic perspective he is wrong.
@ElbridgeColby
, who he appears to smear, is wrestling with reality unlike many on this platform.
First,
#China
is the
The shame is historically, Russia and China are predestined geopolitical rivals, even foes: in central Asia and East Asia especially. Likewise Russia and Iran (Persia). Only a bankrupt US foreign policy could generate such a catastrophic result.
We did. We have. This is moving the racial justice goal posts to a place where only the overthrow of the entire American system can satisfy critics. That's not winning hearts and minds; that's disaster.
Truman, Eisenhower and JFK all argued that the USA needed to address racial injustices at home in order to win the war for "hearts and minds" abroad, precisely because communist powers -- like China -- were highlighting them in their propaganda.
The FISA warrant is just one more piece of evidence that the FBI conintel probe was a political operation from the start, with the object of "getting"
@realDonaldTrump
no matter what the facts or law said. The shame is so many have no problem with that.
Our plea to the mainstream media is: we understand you have a bias. Just don't lie to us, or deliberately hide the truth.
It seems that's too much to ask.
Time for Americans to face some basic truths about where we are as a country.
Basic Truth
#1
: The Mueller investigation has been a political operation from the start, based on a phony premise (Trump campaign colluded with Russians) and geared to nullify the 2016 election.
Brother David is correct, and manages to startle his critics by stating the obvious. AI/ML, robotics, and 5G are precisely that, labor force multipliers. Japan and ROK and other Asian countries understand this; so does PRC.
Why
@PeterZeihan
's demographic doomsday tale is wrong: Labor Productivity in S. Korean manufacturing rose nearly 6X between 1995 and 2015. With Industry 4.0 apps (AI+5G) China can achieve very high productivity growth and more than compensate for slow declines in the labor force.
A suggestion for a GOP strategy dealing with Harris:
She and everyone else in this administration, lied to the nation about Joe Biden's real mental and physical condition for 3 1/2 years.
What else has she lied about? What else has she kept hidden from the American people?
Quite right, Brother David. Biden pretends to be POTUS, the US pretends to be a superpower--and Europe pretends it's still the anchor of civilization.
It's a moment that demands a major shift in self-perception as well as grand strategy.
This is the first time since the 1930's that three revisionist powers have joined forces to shake up the world system. Then Germany, Japan, and Italy; today, China, Russia, and Iran--the New Axis.
Restoring the old PA won't succeed. New solutions needed, starting in 2024.
Could not agree more w/
@nfergus
and the US has the ability to contest this and to deter worse and more significant aggression, but only with major changes, investments, and statecraft.
On this
#NiobeDay
, I'm thinking of my great-grandfather, Alfred Theophilus Lee, an engineering officer aboard HMCS Niobe during the Great War.
#CanadaRemembers
#RCNavy
The real winner in the China-Iran-Saudi deal is China's BRI and especially its telecom infrastructure. The Gulf States (KSA and UAE) have embraced Chinese technology including 5G, AI-based solar power, and Cloud computing. That's key to China's soft power. US containment failed.
The Biden I don't understand is Jill. How someone who claims to love a spouse would let him to suffer mental and physical decline like this in public, including being led around by such a one as Hunter, is beyond me.
Shouldn't at least some of the anger being expressed toward the unvaccinated, be directed at China for letting this deadly virus run amok around the world, when Chinese authorities knew what was happening?
@davidpgoldman
has an important piece on the surge to the right in Europe. This is our 1848. Then it was the Metternich system that collapsed as a new social and political order took its place; this time it's the collapse of the globalist system.
The idea that Americans must make vital sacrifices to protect Europe from tyranny, worked in 1954 and even in 1964. It made less sense by 1974 and 1984; pointless by 1994 and 2004. Twenty years later, it's become absurd.
Europeans pointing out that US credibility will be reduced if Americans don't do what they want...just prove my point.
They *shouldn't* believe Americans will do unreasonable things for others.
The deduction from that is to do more in your own self-defense. 1/
By obsessing about climate change, the Masters of the Universe are missing the real story of the 21st century global economy, i.e. the rise of India as superpower.
This month has been special for me: it's the tenth anniversary of the paperback of Freedom's Forge. People tell me the book gets more relevant every year, as the model of how to fix our ailing industry base. That means a lot:
#cryptocurrencies
are hot right now. But there's a dark cloud on the far horizon: read my latest
@forbes
to learn what it is, and how to protect against it:
I was actually in London when 9/11 happened, visiting my UK publisher of How The Scots Invented the Modern World. I will never forget the warmth, sympathy, and support I got from the British people during those terrible hours and the days following.
Rumors abounding in Europe that forced mobilizations are set for Eastern European nations--in places like Slovakia, for example. Be advised: Ukraine is losing, the Americans don't know what to do, escalation is likely. This is an ill-advised strategy. No one's listening.
I think the best solution is to wake up Biden one morning and tell him that his second term is over.
Tell him he just has time to get dressed for his farewell speech before boarding Marine One for the last flight back to Delaware.
House Dems can be there to wave goodbye.
As we enter what looks to be a very perilous 2024, America and its allies direly need a clear-eyed, rigorous strategy. I tried to lay one out and what it entails in my book.
I believe the book is, if anything, more relevant now than it was in 2021.
One of the biggest thrills in my early academic life was getting a phone call from Julian Simon, saying how much he enjoyed my The Idea of Decline in Western History. "Didn't know they wrote them like this anymore," he said.
I cherish that call.
I'm finding I have a high tolerance for the ignorance of others, and a very low tolerance for stupidity. My lowest threshold, however, is for intellectual dishonesty: which has made me the enemy of liberalism and the 1619 Project, the biggest intellectual swindle of the century.
Bringing it back will be costly, but not impossible. My book Freedom's Forge offers clues as to how to manage it.
We have 3-4 years to get this right. After that it's probably too late.
Cheap, abundant energy is the fuel of freedom. This fundamental truth should be the hallmark of our national energy strategy and a source of national confidence and strength. Don't let Green New Deal illusions blow this opportunity.
@BeschlossDC
is wrong, it's not the first time.
German troops were trained to think and take the initiative on the battlefield, with extraordinary unit cohesion.
Sorry, who are these 'military historians'? The Germans were fighting on two fronts & resisted our advance ferociously, even mounting the Bulge counterattack, as we bombed their cities & industrial areas.
@beschlossDC
knowledge of WW2 simply horrendous.
It was too much for the tiny minds that preside over the MSM. Even claiming it proves Trump is a Putin apologist (which he is not), was beyond their powers.
My newest
@thedispatch
traces how China has taken advantage of our failed Afghanistan policy. We expend the blood and treasure, China reaps the rewards:
This Day in
#WWII
#History
: On the morning of June 6, 1944, the largest amphibious invasion in history begins as Allied Forces land on the beaches of Normandy.
#DDay
#ThisDay
2/2 's military writer Chen Feng claims China has an overwhelming advantage in shore-based weapons vs. Taiwan (anti-ship missiles, loitering munitions, etc) that the US can't win a war over Taiwan. Again: Who let China get ahead of us in hypersonics?
@rogerlsimon
@yhazony
I think Brent Kavanagh not only saved himself and his confirmation, but may have turned the tide on the degradation of the confirmation process. He may also have saved the GOP in November.
Like the Holy Alliance after the Napoleonic wars, NATO as it currently exists has outlived its usefulness and has become a barrier to reform in our defense industrial and technological base.
You also have to read the stunning piece
@WSJ
by black pastor Latasha Fields on why Project 1619 is a direct threat to all Americans, including African-Americans:
Fox News
@JenGriffinFNC
did NOT confirm the Atlantic story. To say she did is a lie. She quoted another anonymous source saying
@realDonaldTrump
said things the source interpreted as disparaging of military personnel.
So idiotic.
Why not call it a common sense strategy for foreign policy, rather than smearing it as isolationist? Matching means to ends is the essence of good strategy.
An America First foreign policy isn’t isolationism. That’s a canard. It’s common sense.
It’s also the only way America is going to stay effectively engaged in the world. Continuing on our current course is inviting disaster.
@JoeSquawk
@SquawkCNBC
Max is a very sad case. One can be confident that by taking the opposite position to Max's these days, one is doing the right thing morally as well as politically.
Just saw Max Boot on Israel. He deplores the role of religious Jews. In US most Jews care not a fig & never visit Israel. Others invoke Tikkum Olan ("cure the world") to care for all but Jews (eg falsely named HIAS). Only the religious matter, only they preserve the Hebrew nation
First two priorities for a new presidential administration, regardless of candidate: halt America's downward slide around the world, and get America's economy back on a strong growth track.
Sixty years ago, Mao Zedong had a utopian vision of the future and the power to make it happen. 45 million died in the Great Leap Forward. Let's make sure no one has the power to carry out the Green Leap Forward.
Our Lebanon policy is a decades-long disgrace. It's the legacy of trying to be an "honest broker" in the Middle East, instead of deciding to back a democratic ally (Israel) against its many enemies.
The United States has spent billions of dollars on Lebanon's armed forces. There's an entire machine in Washington DC - across DOD, State, Congress, think tanks, etc. - that every day manufactures products and excuses for why the policy is good and successful. Meanwhile ⤵️
Just in time to be sunk by the new queen of the seas, carrier-based air power. Like the Maginot Line, a good lesson in what happens when you invest in yesterday's technology at the expense of the future.
Very profound and brilliant essay.
Congrats, Bro
@davidpgoldman
.
Even if you disagree, eg on Ukraine, if you cant refute his arguments be ready to rethink your own.
This is what I was going for in the war-game I am currently participating in as China. But I don't think the powers that be are going to let it happen in the game.
Likewise Louisiana Purchase (negotiated with Napoleon), and Monroe Doctrine (declared with help from UK). When the goals of American foreign policy are clear, the means write themselves.
What our goals today? No one in this administration can tell you.
Realism is deeply rooted in American history.
A key, early example: We courted and accepted aid from France and Spain, at the time highly rigid - even reactionary - monarchies. We focused on our goal: independence. Not ideological conformity.
I'm afraid your analysis is correct. Everyone outside our domestic media and political elite understands that our house is not in order; no reason to back a clueless loser.
@Kiofofah
@ArthurLHerman
Washington had a sense of urgency. It thought it could bring down Russia with sanctions and cripple China with tech controls. Neither idea worked.
Very pleased to be doing
@glennbeck
show again today. What an intellectual treat for me to discuss profound issues with this amazing radio host and I hope a treat for audience today.
The more time passes, the more the 1990's appear as the crucible of our age. The obsessive focus on the Clintons obscured what was really happening, from high-tech to Russia, China, and Islamic radicalism.
Has anyone noticed beside me noticed that news headlines, including those here at Twitter, have become systematically misleading? It's as if news outlets have signed a mutual credibility suicide pact.
Let's face it. If China does decide to attack or invade Taiwan, its focus will be taking out our ability to respond militarily. I.e. We don't stay out of this war, even if we want to.
@ArthurLHerman
Rome's demographic decline was evident under Augustus. It took 400 years for the empire to fall. China's Global South strategy can extend Chinese dominance for another century or two by integrating billions of people into China's economic zone. It's done by tech not by force.
TIL Hillary thinks only presidents can go to jail
"Trump still yells 'lock her up.' Does he think I’m president? Someone also needs to tell Fox News they can’t impeach me, it doesn't work that way with a private citizen." --HRC