You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom
Matthew, Chapter 24.
Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
July 26, 2026
China v. Taiwan
The Houthis hit oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia yesterday.
News reports hold that the administration has put on hold an escalation of the war due to a shortage of air defense munitions. Savvy analysts, including yours truly, have been warning about that occurring for months, and not it's here.
So, in keeping with that, a prediction.
This is also likely a moment that Putin and Xi have been waiting for as well. Our weapons stockpile has been built up over years, and now we've wasted it on a war fought for Israel and Trump's vanity. Both Putin and Xi know that the next President, assuming at Trump 2028 coup to be unsuccessful, and assuming that we don't have another President before 2028, is much less likely to be a complete patsy and geopolitical dimwit.
For Russia, that means Russia needs to fight on in hopes it can win before the next administration comes on. For Xi, that means the time to invade Taiwan is. . . now.
July 29, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
The U.S. Senate advanced Russian energy sanctions legislation Tuesday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the Capitol. The vote was seen as a tribute to the bill’s author, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, on the day of his funeral, which was widely attended by politicos.
Trump fell asleep during it as J. D. Vance seemed oblivious to the dozing octogenarian and Bessent looked nervous about it, but then he always looks nervous.
July 31, 2026
Israeli Hamas War
The Bored of Peas has supposedly worked out a peace plan in Gaza. Sober analysts a 4th Grade level have severe doubts about it.
August 1, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Now Trump is backtracking and saying the US won't license Patriot missile production to Ukraine.
August 2, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Ukraine has run out of ballistic missile interceptors. This comes at the same time that the US supply is seriously depleted due to Donald Trump's illegal moronic war against Iran.
King Donny should free up what remains of the US supply and give them to Ukraine, and start emergency production for the US. As for Iran, we can solve that problem simply by pulling out. Better yet, pulling out, putting every senior commander who agreed to fight in a clearly illegal war on trial, and impeaching Donald Trump.
Crisis in Ceuta
Not a war but requiring Spanish military deployment, a mass flood of immigrants crashed into the Spanish North African city of Ceuta.
About 50,000 North African immigrants stormed the city, leading to dramatic news footage and MAGA "see, it could happen here" claims. Missed in the story is that 48,000 of them returned to Morocco within 48 hours.
A bigger question may be why Spain retains a city that you would figure should be part of Morocco, but it does.
Italy defensively suspended the EU's border-free Schengen arrangements with Spain.
August 10, 2026
Israel v. Hamas.
Israel had rejected the "Board of Peace" peace plan, refusing to enter into a peace deal with Hamas until it is definitely disarmed.
Another blow to King Donny.
August 17, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Both sides exchanged heavy missile and drone attacks yesterday. A NATO jet on patrol shot down a drone that had strayed into Romania.
August 18, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Robert Shaheiev, 49, formerly of the Ukrainian Navy who defected to Russia early in the war died in an explosion in Sevastopol.
Whether he was targeted or not, Ukrainian operatives have proven effective at hunting down figures in the Russian military that they find particularly responsible for various matters. Shaheiev defected with a submarine.
Korean War
Donald Trump has signaled that the US is going to scale back it's participation in joint exercises with the South Korean Army.
What's going on here is terribly unclear. The US has maintained troops in the ROK since the 1945 and the threat of North Korean invasion is very real.
I should note that this isn't entirely unprecedented. Jimmy Carter actually campaigned on the idea in 1976 and tried to implement a phased withdrawal, which was abandoned over conservative and military objections. Since the 1980s, military support of South Korea has been very strong.
Trumps move comes at a time when the US is losing an illegal war with Iran and is having to pull naval assets out of the Pacific. It also comes at a point at which the longtime Red Chinese goal of forcibly reunited Taiwan with the mainland is at its highest point. Combined with that, Trump's administration is packed with National Conservatives who have a sort of Neo Nineteenth Century view of where the U.S.'s foreign policy should be focused.
Given that, Trump's decision could be the result of his listening to National Conservatives, or it could be because or logistical situation is much worse than admitted.
It could also be because South Korea refused to participate in the illegal war, like every other nation on earth did. Trump has not taken that well. Nobody seems to be pointing out that South Korea did participate in the Vietnam War, which Trump did not. Trump himself, at any rate, referenced South Korea's lack of willingness to get into the losing war with Iran.
Because of Trump's other actions, however, there's widespread commentary about whether Trump is a Russian asset and this is influencing him on the world stage. As radical as that sounds, there are reason to raise this question. Certainly no other President has hurt US interest, and just the US in general, more than Trump, and he's a fanboy of Putin.
We've noted it elsewhere, but we've been worried about a Chinese strike on Taiwan in the near future. The combination of the failed Iran War and Trump's other actions make that inevitable . The question is whether that will come this Fall, or next Spring.
September 4, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
In an attack Ukraine is an intentional Russian signal to the United States, Russia hit a Coca Cola plant in a drone strike.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has killed a House vote on Lindsey Graham’s Russia sanctions bill which passed the Senate in July, stating “We have to build consensus around that final product".
Oh, um, . . . not hat doesn't look a little weird. . . . and doesn't raise any questions, um, like Дональд Трамп — агент России?
What is it with this administration and Russia? Why is Дональд Трамп a Russian asset? Just stupidity and a like for flashy gold things?
September 20, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Ukraine launched a massive drone raid on targets in the Moscow region.
September 22, 2026
Pakistan v. Afghanistan
Pakistan conducted air raids into Afghanistan yesterday.
October 1, 2026
US in Iraq
The U.S. is now completely out of Iraq.
October 4, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Russia hit Ukrainian bridges over the past few days. This appears to be an economic targeting.
Russia also indicated it would resort to the use of nuclear weapons to defend Kaliningrad if it needed to, which it would never need to, as nobody is threatening the Baltic city formerly known as Königsberg.
October 5, 2026
Russia
Darya Shipilova, patient 0 in what hopefully is contained quickly. May the perpetual light shine upon her.
Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old researcher at an anti-plague lab died following suspected exposure to a “particularly dangerous infection.” which people believe is likely pneumonic plague. Some 200 people are under observation for exposure to the highly infectious disease which might have killed the young woman due to a lab accident.
Some fairly knowledgeable people assert that there's reason to believe that this may be a weaponized variant of the disease, which the Soviets were working on prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Adam Kinzinger is urging all flights out of Russia to be halted.
God grant that this be contained, whatever it is.
We would note that no country has reacted by banning flights so far. We might also note that with Trump in office the US is extraordinarily impaired in reacting to a threat like this. MAGA still continues to believe that COVID 19 was no sort of a threat and it's unlikely that Donald is going to react until it really turns out to be a weaponized virus that starts killing a lot of people.
October 6, 2026
Yemeni Civil War
Yemeni government forces retook the Bab el-Mandeb Strait up to the city of Mocha.
October 11, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Over the last couple of days Donald Trump entered into some sort of deal to supposedly purchase Russian diesel fuel. We reported on this on another thread:
Sigh. . .
As noted, this isn't going to do anything to the price at the pump and quite frankly it's unlikely any Russian diesel gets here. The whole idea is amazingly dim.
What it does do, however, is make the United States openly declare assistance to Russia, which is completely inexcusable. People are negatively reacting and Trump, who hates criticism, lashed out at Zelensky in defense, claiming he could have ended the war on many occasions and that Ukraine needs a new president.
It's the United States that needs a new President. Like him or not, that man of multiple names would be leagues better than Trump. Trump should be removed via the 25th Amendment, or if the numbers are there, impeached in January.
October 12, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Trump is claiming the warring parties have agreed to an "energy ceasefire".
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today that he “didn’t know about it. We learned from the media" while the Kremlin stated that ”contacts are ongoing”.
So, no ceasefire.
Ukraine has been hitting refineries as well as Russian data centers, which caused this interesting observation by Adam Kinzinger:
Weird. Most of my haters have disappeared in the last 24 hours. What happened?
Oh…. Russian data centers went bye bye
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