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Chapter 5, Section II. The Abstract Illiteracy of the American Public
The modern American mind has been trained to think in images. It sees tanks and assumes war. It sees a flag and assumes nationhood. It...
john raymond
Jul 124 min read
Chapter 5, Section I. We Don’t Know Where Iraq Is, and We Don’t Know What Russia Is
America is losing a global war—not for lack of weapons, but for lack of understanding. And the most damning evidence is this: We went to...
john raymond
Jul 123 min read
What Matters Is Not the Palace Intrigue Over Epstein: It Is That the Administration Is Attacking Us
The fight between Pam Bondi and Dan Bongino is not the story. It is the show. It is meant to distract, confuse, and deplete public...
john raymond
Jul 112 min read
Vlad Vexler Is Right: With Respect to Economics, Putin Still Has Cards to Play
Vlad Vexler is right . The Russian economy, after years of wartime improvisation, has exhausted its slack. The short-term growth that...
john raymond
Jul 114 min read
Paul Warburg Understands Regime Security, But Not the Full Threat to Putin Abandoning the War in Ukraine: The Vengeance Trap
Paul Warburg offers a cogent diagnosis of Vladimir Putin’s war psychology : a dictator trapped by his own refusal to accept failure,...
john raymond
Jul 104 min read
If You Think Trump Is Getting Played By Putin, or Is Changing His Mind on Putin or Russia, It Is You Who Are Getting Played
There’s a persistent and dangerous illusion circulating among certain Western commentators and officials—that Donald Trump is being...
john raymond
Jul 103 min read
Chapter 4, VIII. The War Without a Declaration: How COVID, Coordination Collapse, and Shadow Warfare Unleashed World War Three
When the history of this war is written, it may not begin in Ukraine or Gaza or Taiwan. It may begin with a virus. The COVID-19 pandemic...
john raymond
Jul 103 min read
Chapter 4, Section VII. America as Weak Link: NATO’s Braindamaged Core
At the heart of NATO’s current dysfunction lies an uncomfortable paradox: the United States, long considered the cornerstone of the...
john raymond
Jul 103 min read
Chapter 4, VI. China’s Paradox: Ally and Parasite
The rise of China in the twenty-first century has often been misunderstood as either a juggernaut of strategic clarity or a rival of...
john raymond
Jul 104 min read
Author Foreword: Why Understanding Asymmetric War is Critical for MAGA and Non-MAGA Commenters
It often begins like this: One commenter sneers, "So Russia's collapsing and taking over the world at the same time?" Another chimes in,...
john raymond
Jul 93 min read
Chapter 4, Section IV. The Asymmetric Battlefield Expands: Ukraine, Gaza, Kashmir
The illusion of peace in the modern world is maintained only by our insistence on defining war through outdated metrics: formal...
john raymond
Jul 93 min read
Brian Tyler Cohen Picks Fruit So Low It Might as Well Be on the Ground: The Epstein File Spat and the Cracks in Putin’s Control
Brian Tyler Cohen’s analysis, like so many mainstream-liberal takes, fails not because it’s wrong , but because it’s beneath the level...
john raymond
Jul 93 min read
Laplace’s Rule of Succession and How We Know Trump Doesn’t Make Innocent Mistakes
People—good people—keep making the same category mistake when it comes to Donald Trump. They give him the benefit of the doubt... They...
john raymond
Jul 93 min read
Chapter 4, Section III. Russia’s Long Game: Capture the Republic, Disrupt the Alliance
A. The Invasion Without an Invasion Putin didn’t need tanks to breach the U.S. border—he needed algorithms, kompromat, and a willing...
john raymond
Jul 94 min read
Chapter 4, II. The Authoritarian Entente: Fragile but Coordinated
A Shadow Alliance, Not a True Axis This is not an alliance of treaties, flags, and joint declarations. It is an entente in the older,...
john raymond
Jul 83 min read
Beyond Anders Puck Nielsen... Dear European Leaders, It Is 100% Clear That Trump Is Working for the Russians
Anders Puck Nielsen’s recent update on Russia’s summer offensive is measured, cautious, and thoughtful. And yet, in all his talk of...
john raymond
Jul 83 min read
The Reddit Paradox: Liberal Users, Fascist Owners and Executives
Reddit is living a lie. This platform—the so-called “front page of the internet”—runs on the content, labor, and moral courage of...
john raymond
Jul 82 min read
We Have Seen This Patty-Cake Before from Trump and Putin—But Bullshit Is Bullshit
He’s doing it again. The patty-cake. The performative slap-fight. The “Putin is being difficult” routine designed to create the illusion...
john raymond
Jul 82 min read
Jake Broe Misses the Point: What Matters Is New Deliveries of Weapons and Defense Systems—and New Sanctions That Work
Jake Broe means well, but he is still missing the point. In his latest commentary , he treats the online battle for public perception as...
john raymond
Jul 82 min read
Chapter 4, Section I. Opening Provocation: WW3—The War We Refuse to See
War Without Declaration: The Systemic Contest We Mistook for Peace We still speak of war in the grammar of the 20th century:...
john raymond
Jul 83 min read
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