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Patel's Valhalla Comment Proves Me Right: For Patel and Bongino, Their Presence Was Always About Optics
Yesterday I wrote that Kash Patel and Dan Bongino’s flight to Utah in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s killing was never about catching a...
john raymond
Sep 122 min read


Spain’s Strategic Ambiguity: The One Nation That Could Move First
In Europe’s current debate over Ukraine deployments, Spain has cultivated what can only be called strategic ambiguity . It has resisted...
john raymond
Sep 113 min read


Day 235 of Trump 2.0 Has Epstein Out of the News, But the Day Still Shows Trump Is Weak and His Administration Is Feckless
On Day 235 of his second presidency, President Trump appeared, at first glance, to enjoy a reprieve. The Jeffrey Epstein files—a scandal...
john raymond
Sep 112 min read


Executive Summary for NATO and EU Leadership: Article 4 Is Article 5
Over the past 48 hours, top analysts in the public domain—drawing on frameworks of minimax reasoning and game theory—have exposed the...
john raymond
Sep 112 min read


Warburg and the Prisoner’s Dilemma of NATO
Paul Warburg’s latest analysis of Russia’s drone incursions into Poland deserves credit. He correctly starts from the minimax...
john raymond
Sep 102 min read


Jake Broe Stayed the Course: Ten Days on from His A+ Scorecard
Ten days ago I gave Jake Broe what I called an A+ scorecard. At the time, I made it clear that the real test for him would not be...
john raymond
Sep 104 min read


The Difference Between Minnesota and Kirk Is, One Sided With Freedom and Democracy, While the Other Supported a Tyrant
Violence has now struck both defenders of the republic and those who sought to undermine it. In Minnesota this last summer, elected...
john raymond
Sep 102 min read


Europe’s Strategic Paradox and the Necessity of Declaring: World War Three Is Already Underway
Vlad Vexler is right to demand that Europe act rather than talk . His prescription is correct: tangible support for Ukraine, not more...
john raymond
Sep 102 min read


Vexler Is Right to Worry About the Article 5 Gray Zone and its Political Dimension
NATO Article 5 is not a tripwire; it is a political instrument that adversaries intend to blunt long before it is formally invoked....
john raymond
Sep 94 min read


In the Face of Our Forefathers: Men of Power in the United States Must Remember to Honor the Republican Form of Government
The United States was never designed as a monarchy, nor as a temporary mobocracy . It was conceived as a republic—a deliberate ordering...
john raymond
Sep 92 min read


What the Orange Gobshite Says About Our Fellow Americans
The tragedy of our time is not that one man lies. The tragedy is that millions of our fellow citizens—people we love, people with whom we...
john raymond
Sep 92 min read


Maybe—Maybe Once—One Could Say “Both Sides Are Equally Bad,” But Not Anymore
There was a time—foolish though it was—when one might have indulged the lazy conceit that “both sides are equally bad.” A time when...
john raymond
Sep 92 min read


If You Can't See That Trump Is a Russian Asset By Now, There Really Is No Helping You
There are moments when history rips away every pretense and forces us to look at the truth unblinking. The cruel and unusual deportation...
john raymond
Sep 93 min read


A War-Forged Security Architecture: Validating Nielsen’s Vision
The Pan-Russian Spine: A New Frontline from the North to Black Sea Anders Puck Nielsen highlights a stark reality : a continuous...
john raymond
Sep 912 min read


Vexler’s Near Miss
Vexler is right to rage against “sanewashing.” He sees the BBC, Reuters, and others take a one-word “yep” from President Trump and spin...
john raymond
Sep 72 min read


Trump’s “Phase Two” Is a Lie
The Core Points These are the three core points which you need to know in order to understand Trump’s latest pro-Russian gambit: Trump’s...
john raymond
Sep 72 min read


Mike Johnson, a Small and Ever-Shrinking Man
The mark of a man is not what he says when untested, but how his words survive when the truth presses back against them. Mike Johnson has...
john raymond
Sep 73 min read


Unlearning the Myth of Trump Being Able to “Grow”
One of the most persistent—and pernicious—myths of American political commentary is that men who lust for dictatorial power can “grow.”...
john raymond
Sep 72 min read


The Portrait of Trump
Today, the Republic stands under assault. Its courts bend, its alliances fracture, its citizens are taught to see freedom itself as a...
john raymond
Sep 62 min read


From Bread and Circuses to Just Circuses, an MMA Fight on the White House Lawn Is a Circus Meant to Distract from Epstein
The United States once built its legitimacy on the promise of self-government, economic opportunity, and serious policy to secure the...
john raymond
Sep 52 min read
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