Trump campaigned on ending the “regime change wars,” as Tulsi Gabbard calls them, and getting us out of the Middle East. We don’t have enough ground troops for an invasion. The rumors of bringing back the draft are just that. But the Iranians know Trump could destroy their oil refineries and devastate their economy even more than his sanctions already have.
If I’m sober enough to write this on New Year’s Eve, my gentle reader will surely have sobered up by New Year’s Day, and will consequently pardon me for staying on the Kremlinology hobbyhorse all through the holidays.
What a year! It ended with something amazing. We saw right in front of us a word change meaning within hours. On the morning of December 18, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted, “The impeachment of a president is a solemn and serious moment for our country.” Just a few hours later, when the House actually “impeached” President Trump, the word was twisted to also mean: a seemingly serious action, but really a joke, as in my headline to this article.
The church bells of Italy, l’Italia dei campanili, are ringing in Christmas, and though my own Christmas is two weeks on and the Orthodox bells ring so differently, I heartily wish that the melodious concatenation reaches the gentle reader.
It was strange timing for the Christianity Today editorial, “Trump Should Be Removed from Office.” It came out just after he was impeached and a week before Christmas, but what no looks like weeks or months before the Senate votes on it.
No, it isn’t a mistake, my title. It’s not like I don’t read the papers, you know. But in the stuffy atmosphere of Tory triumphalism, I think, the gentle reader may well be wishing for a window on the world to be opened. So what really happened in Britain last week? Well, basically, the two main political parties have exchanged roles, which is not, moreover, entirely a bad thing. It’s both good news and bad. Let me start with the good news. A number of pollsters analyzing the general election have spoken of a new divide in British society, as...
Change the character and you have changed the nation. A culture based on casual promiscuity, Gaia-worship, and mistranslations of Hindu and Mayan literature will produce an entirely different national character from one based on Homer and Dante.
Although they’re idiotic, tyrannical and boring, there’s humor in the Impeachment Follies: 1. Why hasn’t Greta Thunberg intervened to remove Trump and replace him with herself? Time magazine, long connected to the CIA, just proclaimed her Queen of the Galaxy. It quotes her marching orders to her subjects, “I want you to panic!” She replaced Queen Lea Organa, who died in the last P.C. Star Wars movie, but might come back in the next one, out December 20, “Star Wars XVIIXMCDMMVIIILMNOPQ: Jar Jar Abrams’ P.C. Guide to the Galaxy and Why Trump Should Be Impeached.” 2. Among the New Republic’s...
Text and Talk, 11 May 2019 It is difficult to forget Russia, given the proclivity of the state, real and imagined, to meddle in America elections and to violate egregiously the Monroe Doctrine by sponsoring illiberal client states such as Cuba and Venezuela that are organized on a socialist model. From 1946 to 1991 Russia was an existential threat to Western Europe. Its nuclear arsenal is now larger than that of the United States and it has the only other strategic air force in the world. Its manner in politics is bullying, and its leaders still consider the...
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