The Trump administration, with John Bolton on the only battlements he’ll ever man, is at it again. This time, enacting sweeping financial punishments on businesses who would dare transact with Venezuela’s Maduro government. “The Maduro regime now joins that exclusive club of rogue states [Cuba, North Korea, and Iran],” Bolton said at a one-day conference in […]
I’ve noticed an interested paradigm shift with the latest U.S. shootings in Dayton and Texas. The Texas shooter apparently left a hate-filled, racist manifesto prior to shooting up an El Paso WalMart. This has spurned a debate about violent racisms prevalence. CNN ran a story stating Tucker Carlson “told a lie” when calling white supremacy […]
Stillness and a murder of crows. We pass formations of New England stone walls as the the boy tracks behind my trail bound steps. Someone’s sons put them in their place, jealous stewards with calloused hands and sweat-stringed brows. Groaning as they settle into the earth, those ordered stones speak of days and lives passed. […]
The 8th International Conference on Cybersecurity has come and gone with little fanfare, and with it, any remaining pretense of federal law enforcement’s respect for privacy. In a stunningly banal speech, US Attorney General William Barr renewed the Justice Department’s calls for an end to encryption in the name of, wait for it, American security. […]
Somehow, the grisly hacking to pieces of Jamal Khashoggi has worked together for some good. It’s no surprise though, it took in-group blood to ignite the flame necessary to get the Senate vote we saw on 12/13. In a truly historic move, the US Senate voted for the first time to remove troops from anywhere […]
David French is one of my least favorite people on Twitter. Former Major in the US Army, Iraq War vet and columnist for National Review, French spends his days online hand wringing about the need for “realism” in foreign policy, ergo an enormous military, all to keep American’s safe at home. Sound familiar? In his […]
James Mattis has been engaged in the world of national security for 40 years. In the run up to the 2016 election, “Chaos” had quite a bit to say on defense (through offense), regardless of the winner. In a speech in Washington, Mattis said, “The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring […]
Jim Mattis isn’t “Mad Dog” as he became popularly known in marine circles, but CHAOS: “Colonel Has An Outstanding Suggestion”. In the marine corps, he is the ‘patron saint of chaos’ and a bona fide cult of personality. Marines love him, and he, to his credit, loves marines. He’s also a fairly established intellectual, as […]
