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The Ball Is Epstein, and the Goal Is Justice
I am not a tactician, but a strategic thinker. As such, I do not claim to know the exact plays that must be run on the field today,...
john raymond
Jul 302 min read
A General's Handbook
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q0CHXH9IClXL-cjyfRRp2cgWGoATV0Kl/view Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I_delcWF8Jwh2YH_m...
john raymond
Jul 291 min read


Dear Jake, Tone Doesn’t Win Wars—Weapons Do
Trump now says it’s “10 to 12 days.” What happened to the 50-day deadline? What happened to the hard ultimatum that was supposed to force...
john raymond
Jul 292 min read


If Anders Puck Nielsen Is Right About NATO Planning, NATO Under Rutte Is More Than Brain Damaged—It’s Braindead
If Anders Puck Nielsen is right about the state of NATO’s military planning , then we are not witnessing a slowly awakening alliance—we...
john raymond
Jul 293 min read


Paul Warburg Is Correct: Ukrainian Drone Strikes Deep into Russia Have Created a Sustainable Asymmetric Trend Line—But an Alpha Disruption to Their Plans Is Still Possible
Paul Warburg’s recent video outlining the transformative power of Ukrainian logistics strikes inside Russia captures the strategic shift...
john raymond
Jul 283 min read


The Likely Way Trump and Putin Will Make the 50-Day Sanctions Disappear
Donald Trump recently issued a 50-day ultimatum regarding the war in Ukraine. It was bold, performative, and completely empty—a move so...
john raymond
Jul 283 min read


Ukrainians Believe in Ukrainian OpSec, I Believe in Ukrainian OpSec, But Most Importantly Putin Believes in Ukrainian OpSec
In the past week or so, many observers have struggled to explain the Zelenskyy administration’s rapid rollback of NABU and SAPO...
john raymond
Jul 283 min read


Vitamin R: How We Know Trump Went to Epstein Island—Because He Said He Didn't in the Liar's Voice He Uses
We’ve all heard it—that strained, defensive tone Trump slips into when he’s cornered. The high-pitched whine, the over-enunciation, the...
john raymond
Jul 282 min read


Dear Jake, How Many Times Do We Have to See Trump & GOP Plans and Promises Be Sabotaged Before You Realize Plans Mean Nothing?
Dear Jake, How many times? How many times do we have to watch Trump and his enablers float a plan, promise a policy, tease a deal—and...
john raymond
Jul 273 min read


Vlad Vexler’s 6 Russian Lies Are Asymmetric Warfare — And We’ve Seen It Before With George W. Bush
Vlad Vexler has once again done the hard work many won’t: calling lies lies . In his latest video, he walks us through six core...
john raymond
Jul 274 min read


Xi and Putin Are in the Same Club, but Are Not the Same, Because China and Russia Are Not the Same
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are often grouped together in Western discourse—as strongman autocrats who oppose democracy, disrupt global...
john raymond
Jul 263 min read


An Open Letter to Brian Tyler Cohen and the MidasTouch Network: On Clickbait, Hyperbole, and the Price of Truth
Dear Brian, Ben, Brett, and Jordy, I write to you not as a critic from the other side, but as someone aligned with the causes you fight...
john raymond
Jul 262 min read


Vitamin R: Purpose Is the Only Counter to Power—How the Common Good Can Defeat the Autocrats
There is power in the people. That truth has not changed. What has changed is the system’s capacity to realize it. Today, the power of...
john raymond
Jul 262 min read


The Ukrainian Doctrine of Distributed Pressure: From Spiderweb to Strategic Saturation
I have written extensively on the enemy plans and their strategic frame. In this article, I will instead explain the Ukrainian plan for...
john raymond
Jul 263 min read


Trump, Epstein, and the Asymmetric Blackmail Operation — A National Security Frame
Now that the Epstein list is front and center in the national conversation, it is time—well past time, in fact—to reframe what this...
john raymond
Jul 254 min read


Dear MAGA, The President Thinks You Are Dumber Than Unholy Fuck—And So Do I
You’ve fallen for it again. The grift, the lie, the illusion that Donald Trump is somehow not tied to the most depraved criminal...
john raymond
Jul 252 min read


Paul Warburg’s Case for Urgency Is Right—but Incomplete Without the Alpha Event and the Gambler’s Ruin
Paul Warburg’s latest video lays out a passionate case for why the war in Ukraine must be ended quickly—and decisively in Ukraine’s...
john raymond
Jul 254 min read


Jake Broe Still Doesn’t See the Way Trump Is Working for the Russians
Jake Broe has done more than most to raise awareness about the war in Ukraine. His updates are diligent, passionate, and usually grounded...
john raymond
Jul 242 min read


Vitamin R: Structuring Dr. Richardson’s Latest Chat in an Asymmetric Warfare Frame
Dr. Heather Cox Richardson is a historian, not a military strategist—but she is still sizing up the fog of war. Her latest live session ...
john raymond
Jul 245 min read


Why It Is More Important Than Ever That Paul Warburg Get Things Right
There’s a moment that arrives in the career of every serious analyst when their ideas stop living quietly on YouTube or Bluesky—and begin...
john raymond
Jul 242 min read
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