Most Americans don’t even understand that war is real when they are watching it on television.
It’s very concerning because we have this very recent evidence of how hysterical and unhinged U.S. military decision-making can be.
Withdrawing support for Ukraine has become a major political issue in both the U.S. Congress and now on the presidential campaign trail, and it is causing divisions as well in European capitals.
Policymakers making assumptions about the use of military force and how quickly that military force will achieve political objectives. We’ve seen over and over again how some of these assumptions are faulty.
Operationally, the potential seizure of Kupiansk is significant as it shows the continual pressure that Russia is exerting along a nearly 600-mile front.
Unfortunately, I think Russia is in better shape than is broadly believed, and certainly in better shape than Ukraine
In the late 1930s, when my dad was working hard for low pay in a factory, he tried to enlist in the U.S. Navy. The Navy recruiter rejected him because he was roughly a half inch too short.
The inertia of trillions of dollars of a massive leviathan of bases, troops, aircrafts, ships, money around the world…has its own life force.
There are about ten thousand nuclear weapons…in this world. It would only take about 1% of those to kill billions.
If war is as much a cultural construct as it is a political one, then we need to elevate these dissenters’ voices in our culture.