President Truman made a radio address promising that if railway workers had not returned to work by 4:00 p.m. May 25, he was going to seize control of the railroads.
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Sunday, May 24, 2026
Friday, May 24, 1946. Truman and the railroad strike.
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Wars and Rumors of War, 2025. Part 10 (the final edition for 2025). The Gunboat Diplomacy Edition.
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.
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket
December 21, 2025
United States v. Venezuela
Thee U.S. Coast Guard seized a second tanker transporting Venezuelan oil.
United States and Jordan v. ISIL
Jordan confirmed it helped the U.S. in the airstrikes in Syria against ISIL.
December 22, 2025
United States v. Venezuela
The US will be seizing, if it has not already, a third tanker.
December 23, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War
Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, was killed by an explosive device placed under his car in Moscow.
December 24, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War
Ukrainian forces withdrew from Siversk in the eastern Donetsk region after heavy fighting with Russian forces.
December 26, 2025
United States v. ISIS in Nigeria
The US hit ISIS affiliated targets in Nigeria yesterday.
Islamist attacks on Catholic Nigerians has been going on for a long time and has received very little attention in the US, outside of Catholic circles associated with Nigerians, but suddenly under the Trump Administration, it is. The attention is long overdue, but a person has to suspect that it comes out of NatCon circles and from Catholics inside the administration, rather than some personal concern from President Trump himself. Indeed, in announcing the strikes the mentally declining illegitimate chief executive stated:
Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!
The many years and evcen centuries statement demonstrates a massive deficit in historical knowledge. Th is has been going on for many years, the vast majority of Christians on the plant are Catholic and there's been many examples of brutal killing of Catholics, very notably by Muslims, for centuries.
The strikes were carried out by ship to shore missiles.
Which groups were hit is unclear, but the largest IS-linked group in Nigeria is the Islamic State West Africa Province while the smaller group known as Lakurawa has sought to establish a base in north-western Sokoto state which was where the strikes were targeted.
Islamist groups in Nigeria have acted against Muslims as well as Catholics, but while that is noted, their repression and brutality is principally directed at Catholics.
The intervention seems justified and generally welcomed but now that it has commenced, the US will have to continue as this is a very long running problems and a day of missile attacks is not going to stop things immediately.
December 27, 2025
United States v. ISIS in Nigeria
In something that's obvious, but interesting in the world of Trump claims/lies/fantasies, Nigeria indicated it was open to the new military relationship with the US being ongoing and indicated that defeating Islamic extremist in the country will take some time.
It'll take a long time.
It's a worthwhile endeavor, but I wonder how the MAGAs that believed that Trump was going to end US involvement in foreign wars will justify it. Most MAGAs believe in isolationism, and the NAR folks include groups which, in their ignorance, don't realize that Catholics, the Christians in peril in Nigeria, and which are the original Christian denomination, are actually Christians.
On the strikes:
US targets ISIS with multiple strikes in Nigeria
U.S. cruise missiles miss targets in Nigeria
December 28, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War
Russia attacked Kyiv with ballistic missiles and drones yesterday, a day before scheduled talks between the Ukraine and the United States., killing at least one person and wounding 27.
It'll be interesting to see what effect this has on the talks given the participation of the unreliable and demented Donald Trump.
Thailand v. Cambodia
The fighting parties signed a new armistice in their border conflict.
The origin of the border fight dates back to the 1950s and is over undefined and unagreed to areas of their common border.
December 31, 2025
Saudi Arabia v. Yemeni separatists
Saudi Arabia bombe the Yemeni port city of Mukalla on Tuesday after a weapons shipment from the United Arab Emirates arrived for separatist forces. A warning to the UAE followed.
United States v. Venezuela.
The Central Intelligence Area hit a Venezuelan dock with drones.
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Wars and Rumors of War, 2025. Part 9. The Neville Chamberlain Edition.
Labels: 1930s, 1938, 2020s, 2025, Cambodia, Congo, Donald Trump, Gaza, Hamas, Isreal, Munich Pact, Neville Chamberlain, Russo Ukrainian War, Rwanda, Thailand, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vladimir Putin, War, Wars and rumors of wars
Saturday, December 20, 2025
Wars and Rumors of War, 2025. Part 9. The Neville Chamberlain Edition.
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.
The settlement of the Czechoslovak problem which has now been achieved is, in my view, only the prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace. This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is a paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine. Some of you perhaps have already heard what it contains, but I would just like to read it to you. " ... We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again".[3]
* * *
My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour.
I believe it is peace for our time...
Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.
Neville Chamberlain.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain showing off the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler that granted Germany territorial concessions in Czechoslovakia and which set the stage for increased German avarice and World War Two.
November 23, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War.
Regarding the articles of surrender being pushed by Donald Trump on Ukraine, a CST headline:
KYIV’S ALLIES PUSH BACK ON US PEACE PLAN
The claimant of Presidential Power, Дональд Трамп, stated that the proposal was his "final offer", as if the US is doing the offering. Secretary of State Rubio, who always looks like he's caught in a bad dream and who is probably the only significant member of the cabinet who is not a complete today, claimed that the plan is a "wish list", not a plan.
Independent Maine Sen. Angus King said earlier in the day that the plan is “one of the most serious geopolitical mistakes in my lifetime" comparing it to the 1938 Munich Pact. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in statement, “if Administration officials are more concerned with appeasing Putin than securing real peace, then the President ought to find new advisors.” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said McConnell’s criticism didn’t go far enough. “Putin is a murderer, a rapist and an assassin. . . We should not do anything that makes him feel like he has a win here.” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called the plan an “outrage.”
Israel v. Hamas in Gaza
Israel hit Gaza yesterday with airstrikes.
November 24, 2025
Israel v. Hezbollah
Israel launched a raid in Lebanon Saturday that killed Hezbollah's chief of staff.
November 26, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War
Yuri Ushakov: Yeah Steve hi, how are you?
YU: I am ok. Congratulations my friend.
YU: You made a great job. Just a great job. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you.
SW: Thank you Yuri and thanks for your support. I know your country supported it and I thank you.
YU: Yeah, because we think that you are making the real job there in the region.
YU: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you need to solve only one problem. [laughs]
SW: I know! How do we get that solved?
YU: You do. And when you think it could be possible?
SW: I think as soon as you suggest, my guy is ready to do it.
SW: Yuri, Yuri, here’s what I would do. My recommendation.
SW: But here’s what I think would be amazing.
SW: What if, what if... hear me out...
YU: I will discuss that with my boss and then I come back to you. Ok?
YU: Ok, that sounds good. Sounds good.
SW: And here’s one more thing: Zelenskiy is coming to the White House on Friday.
YU: Ok, ok. I got your advice. So I discuss that with my boss and then I come back to you, ok?
SW: Ok Yuri, I’ll speak to you soon.
From Bloomberg.
This comes at a time when the illegitimate Trump Administration, headed by a man who committed actual sedition, is threatening to prosecute members of Congress for sedition.
November 28, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War
Putin termed the Trump surrender terms a "starting point" and threatened to overrun Ukraine with Russia's larger army if Ukraine did not come to terms.
It should be plain by now that Russia's army is crap. It has been since some point before 1900. If it could overrun Ukraine, it would have by now. If all aid was cut off to it, and Russia then overran Ukraine, a guerrilla war would then ensue.
cont:
US. v. Venezuelan boats
From the Washington Post:
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
So now we kill people in the water. Something we decried in World War One and World War Two.
A U-boat commander was tried and executed for that after the Second World War.
Heinz-Wilhelm Eck. He ordered his crew to kill survivors and was convicted of a war crime and sentenced to death as a result.
United States v. Venezuela
Trump threatened to close Venezuelan air space.
cont:
The United Kingdom no longer shares intelligence with the US in the Caribbean due to the illegal actions of the United States in this region.
December 5, 2025
Congo
Rwanda and Congo signed an agreement aimed at bringing peace in the region, but analysts are skeptical of it holding.
United States v. Venezuela
U.S. Navy Adm. Frank M. Bradley denied in front of Congress that there'd been a "kill them all" order given by Hegseth.
December 8, 2025
United States v. Venezuela
Members of Congress appeared on the weekend shows about the murder of two men in the fist strike who were on a remnant of the destroyed boat.
Tom Cotton showed himself the most extreme, maintaining that they were a dangers as they were attempting to upright the boat and reload the cargo, which is absurd. He pretty much took the position that killing drug runners through military force is perfectly okay.
If that's the GOP position, and it apparently is in Congress, they should just state that. The problem is, of course, that Trump just pardoned convicted drug runner, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández. Cotton claimed not to know the details of that while berating the host of This Week.
Add Cotton to the list if individuals who are temperamentally unsuited to be in Congress.
Thailand v. Cambodia
The countries entered into a ceasefire agreement recently which Trump claims as one of his "eight wars". Thailand bombed Cambodian positions on their disputed border yesterday.
December 11, 2025
United States v. Venezuela
The US seized the Guyana-flagged "Very Large Crude Carrier" that was loaded covertly with 1.1 million barrels of oil in mid-November. The ship was headed for Cuba, but has been anchored offshore Venezuela since being loaded with oil. Half of the country's oil production goes to Cuba.
Why did we stop it?
This isn't clear, actually. The government claims the ship is involved in the illegal transportation of oil.
December 14, 2025
US (and Syria) v ISIL
An attack in Syria killed U.S. troops and civilians.
Israel v. Hamas
An attack by Hamas wounded Israeli soldiers and Israel retaliated by killing a top Hamas figure.
December 15, 2025
US (and Syria) v ISIL
The soldiers killed in Syria were National Guardsmen:
Army identifies 2 Iowa National Guardsmen killed in Syria attack
December 16, 2025
United States v. Venezuela
And so Mad King Donald inches us that much closer to a war we'll still be waging when he's out of office.
And land? WTF is he talking about?
December 17, 2025
United States v. Venezuela
CST headline:
December 19, 2025
United States v. Venezuela.
Senator from Deseret Mike Lee has introduced the Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act allowing for the issuance of letters of marque and reprisal to private entities to seize drug smuggling boats.
Apparently Sen. Lee is charmingly unaware that what you get with a letter of marque and reprisal is ownership of what you seize. . . thereby making this a more efficient means of directly importing illegal drugs into the US.
Hmmm. . .
Well presumably you only get the boat.
Seemingly not a day goes by where Lee doesn't do or say something outright whacky.
December 20, 2025
United States v. ISIS
The U.S. hit 70 ISIL targets in Syria yesterday in reprisal for a the killing of two U.S. troops.
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Labels: 2020s, 2025, 2025 Occupation of Washington D.C., It was because of the War in Afghanistan, The Second Trump Administration, The War in Afghanistan, West Virginia National Guard, Yeoman's Fourth Law of History
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