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Part 2: Why the Rich and Powerful Push Toxic Masculinity
The crisis of men is not the result of organic cultural drift, nor is toxic masculinity simply a product that happens to “sell.” It is a...
john raymond
Sep 13, 20253 min read


Vitamin R: Vexler Is Right, There Is a Crisis of Men
Vxler is right, there is a crisis here. But the crisis of men is not fundamentally about identity or cultural scripts; it is about...
john raymond
Sep 13, 20253 min read


Poland’s NATO Problem: The Security Theater Paradox at Work
Poland today stands at the epicenter of a corrosive paradox in European security: while attempting to defend itself and demonstrate...
john raymond
Sep 12, 20253 min read


Trump’s Giddiness Fades: Why He Can’t Use Kirk’s Death for His Mythos
When the news first broke of Charlie Kirk’s murder, President Trump was visibly giddy. He immediately saw an opportunity: a loyalist...
john raymond
Sep 12, 20252 min read


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 12, 20252 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 11, 20253 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 11, 20252 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 11, 20252 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 10, 20252 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 10, 20254 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 10, 20252 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 10, 20252 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 9, 20254 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 9, 20252 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 9, 20252 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 9, 20252 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 9, 20253 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 9, 202512 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 7, 20252 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 7, 20252 min read
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