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Section III: Bush’s Lie Was the Attack
We must dispense with the comforting fiction that war begins when the bombs fall. In asymmetric warfare, the war begins with the lie. The...
john raymond
Jul 33 min read


Section II: The Lamppost Problem — Fighting Where You Can, Not Where You Should
There’s an old parable about a drunkard who loses his keys at night and chooses to look for them beneath a streetlamp—not because that’s...
john raymond
Jul 33 min read


Chapter One: The War on Terror and the Manufacturing of Stupidity
How Bush Made Us Blind and Putin Used That Blindness to Gift Us Trump Section I: Opening Provocation — Why Didn’t We Get Smarter? How...
john raymond
Jul 34 min read


William Spaniel Gets Into the Asymmetric Game With No Lines on Maps
William Spaniel, long celebrated for his clear and rigorous modeling of traditional military conflict, has—perhaps unwittingly—entered...
john raymond
Jul 23 min read


Lev Parnas: Good With Smoke, Poor With Mirrors
I mean no offense, I seek only clarity... Lev Parnas is an insider, but not a mastermind. He knows the smoke—the shady deals, the...
john raymond
Jul 22 min read


As a Democrat and a Republican: What I Want Is Not Hard to Understand
It is time to return to a true and equal center for the people. People have spent so long dividing the world into tribes—blue vs. red,...
john raymond
Jul 22 min read


Lisa Murkowski: A Profile in Cowardice
I’ve written before about how much harder women in power have had to work to earn their place. I believe it. Women like Senator Lisa...
john raymond
Jul 22 min read


Vitamin R: What Good People Must Stand For Is Truth to Power, Justice for Americans, and Vengeance for Ukrainians
There comes a point in any age of creeping tyranny when good people must decide what they truly stand for. Not what sounds good in a...
john raymond
Jul 22 min read


Putin on the Ropes? Trump Tosses Him a Lifeline
The lifeline Trump tossed to Putin on June 30th, 2025. When a regime begins to flail, it does not reach for grace. It reaches for its...
john raymond
Jun 302 min read


If Putin Falls, Does Trump Go With Him?
Here is the deal: we already know Trump is a Russian asset. That’s not speculation—it’s a fact grounded in years of financial, political,...
john raymond
Jun 302 min read


The Real Danger to Roberts Is Enabling a Fascist Who Will Turn on the Court
The People of This Republic Are Not the Problem... Chief Justice John Roberts wants you to worry about the crowd. The noise. The protest...
john raymond
Jun 303 min read


Who Is the Problem Now? Me or the Establishment: Mamdani Proves It Isn’t Me
I’ve always supported the Democratic candidate when the choice is between a Democrat and a Republican. Always. Even when it meant holding...
john raymond
Jun 293 min read


What Swalwell Should Have Said: "I Am Sure Mamdani Will Govern for the Benefit of All New Yorkers"
The shame is on Jefferies, Swalwell, and others. In moments of contrived outrage, political courage is not found in piling on—it’s found...
john raymond
Jun 293 min read


Sit Down and Think About It: Trump Is a Literal Russian Asset
It isn't hyperbole to call Trump what he is: a Russian asset There are times when our language fails us—when words like “traitor,”...
john raymond
Jun 293 min read


The Knight on the Geopolitical Chessboard
Why Asymmetric Warfare Is So Hard to Grasp In the game of chess, every piece moves according to a fixed logic. The rook charges in...
john raymond
Jun 283 min read


Silence Will Not Protect You from MAGA-Mediated Death and Destruction
Silence is seductive. It offers the illusion of safety, the comfort of neutrality, the hope that perhaps if you stay quiet long enough,...
john raymond
Jun 283 min read


Against the Tide of MAGA’s Willful Ignorance, Your Courage Is Contagious
Every age is tested. Ours is being tested by a tide of deliberate ignorance—an empire of lies cloaked in flags and slogans, where loyalty...
john raymond
Jun 283 min read


Truth Is Patriotism: How to Win the Asymmetric “Struggle”
The greatest danger to the American republic is no longer the hidden assassin, the foreign spy, or even the terrorist with a bomb. The...
john raymond
Jun 283 min read


The Lightshy Crow: John’s Casting Fantasy
I write, fantasy, so here is my fantasy "dream-team" casting for The Lightshy Crow... The three central characters of The Lightshy Crow —...
john raymond
Jun 273 min read


Vitamin R: To Prove Itself Healthy, the Democratic Party Must Reject Cuomo’s Anti-Democratic Power Grab
Let me be perfectly clear: I am not telling people to turn their backs on the Democratic Party. I am not telling them to stay home. I am...
john raymond
Jun 272 min read
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