RSS- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
- Iran launches air attacks on Israel
- ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
- Britain? Kaput! By Walrus.
- Declaration “Dignitas Infinita” on Human Dignity
- The situation and some possible courses of action … A Pat Lang post reposted from 26 February 2022
- HARPER: COL. W. PATRICK LANG R.I.P.
- A Note On Our Folly By Walrus
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Two Systems
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." (from a Winston Churchill House of Commons speech on Nov. 11, 1947) I was asked by one of our … Continue reading
Posted in As The Borg Turns, government, Media, Politics
18 Comments
THE OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY INTERVIEW by Michael Brenner
The Atlantic has just published a long essay, The Obama Doctrine, by their Washington national correspondent, Jeffrey Goldberg. Based in most part on wide-ranging reflective interviews with President Barack Obama, the article makes extensive use of direct quotes from … Continue reading
Posted in Policy
112 Comments
Another Lesson from Moscow Washington Won’t Learn By Patrick Armstrong
When the announcement of a partial withdrawal was made I was as surprised as anyone. I thought: Daesh is not been defeated, the threat of Ankara doing something extraordinary has not disappeared, the Syrian Army still needs air support … Continue reading
Posted in Russia, Syria, The Military Art
39 Comments
Jackson Part Two By Richard Sale
I think Pat’s choice of the times of Andrew Jackson as mirroring our own age of discontent was brilliant. I would like to add a few comments. The rise of Andrew Jackson marked a new development … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, History, Politics
17 Comments
Military Situation Overview in Syria, March 16, 2016 AMN/Southfront
" … the SAA and its allies supported by a significant number of Russian warplanes which remain in Syria are continuing active actions against terrorists excluded from the ceasefire agreements. SouthFront also received information that Putin’s decision of the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Iraq, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria, Turkey
45 Comments
Change of policy for SST
I have reached the conclusion that the ongoing political process in the US is so important to the fate of all that I cannot maintain a ban on discussion of that process. I regret the necessity. pl
Posted in Politics, Ukraine Crisis
83 Comments
“… Russians to start withdrawing from Syria…” Reuters
"President Vladimir Putin said on Monday "the main part" of Russian armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, and instructed his diplomats to step up the push for peace as U.N.-mediated talks resumed in Geneva on ending the five-year … Continue reading
Posted in Russia, Syria
161 Comments
“What to do if we find life”
"So what would happen if we learned that there is microbial life on Mars, or that it has existed there in the past? Well it would only challenge everything we know. We would have to come to grips with not … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Space
39 Comments
And then there is this … SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWqVNGTdlUE pl