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.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.
Donald Trump on skipping the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery.
March 2, 2025
Turkey v. Kurds
Following an opening from Turkey's strongman ruler Erdogan, the PKK is suspending armed operations.
US Mexican Border
The US is deploying an additional 3,000 troops to the Mexican border.
March 3, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War
Absolutely stupid.
US v. Al Qaeda
On Feb. 23, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted a precision airstrike in Northwest Syria, targeting and killing Muhammed Yusuf Ziya Talay, the senior military leader of the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din (HaD), an Al-Qaeda affiliate.
US Central Command.
March 4, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War
The US suspended military aid to Ukraine. Europe began immediately to fill in and J. D. Vance warned, based on nothing at all, that only Trump could negotiate peace.
More likely, this accelerates the eclipse of the United States.
March 6, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War
The Trump Cabal cut off intelligence access to Ukraine. Shortly after this, Russia hit Kyiv with ballistic missiles.
March 8, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War
When his country called, Donald Trump called up his doctor who found that he ineligible to go into harms way due to shin splints.
Like a lot of the 1960s "not me" crowd, to include Dick Cheney and Joe Biden, this hasn't meant, in the case of Donald Trump, that he doesn't mind ordering killing done. Trump's taken into almost new territory, however, by withdrawing intelligence from an ally dependent up on us while his political party, which once stalwartly opposed foreign aggression by countries like Russia and North Korea, largely stands by.
The United States now has blood on its hands, and through betrayal:
US intel ban leads to heavy Ukrainian losses
A lot of people who admire Trump believe he has a big business head and that he's bring this to politics. Why this is a good thing is never actually mentioned. Government isn't a business. Beyond that, is Trump really a good businessman? We have very little evidence that the is. What we have evidence that he was born very wealthy and its well known that those born into great wealth are highly unlikely to lose it all. Very wealthy families that do lose everything usually do so in the course of a couple of generations. It takes that long to dissipate the wealth. My guess is that this is happening to the Trump fortune right now. Big fortunes are lost through classic means, spending on largess and women usually. My guess is that for those who are looking at the trump's fifty to seventy five years hence, you'll find that they're still rich, but not vastly so, and probably working mundane rich people's jobs.
Anyhow, one of the big myths about Trump is that he's a great negotiator . What he is, is a bully. Since returning to the Oval Office he's applied his bully skills to numerous things and its really start to fail. The tariffs are a good example. Canada has now reached the complete "fuck you" stage with Trump and he can't do one single thing about it. Probably by summer the Mid West will have rolling blackouts due to an electrical blackout. The dimwit Trump has promised to get the XL pipeline rolling again and build one extending all the way to Alaska. My prediction is that the XL if completed under Trump will be filled with air as it was supposed to transport Canadian crude. Donny probably doesn't know that. The Canadians are never going to allow the US to build a pipeline on their soil.
On the war, Ukrainian President Zylensky was brought to the US to surrender title to his country's minerals as an extorted payment for ongoing support. The meeting went famously wrong as J. D. Vance, now with in a hairsbreadth of being President, showed himself way out of his element and engaged in an argument with the embattled Ukrainian leader. Trump, coming to Vance's rescue, once again showed his intellect is really lacking and his verbal skills are that of a child. Since that time, using tactics that he learned as a real estate magnate, he's attempted to bully Ukraine into submission by withholding arms and intelligence to the country.
In blunt terms, he figures that getting Ukrainians killed will make them pliant.
It's monstrously wrong.
And its not even artful.
There's pretty good evidence at this point that the bloom is really off the rose of this administration and that even within the administration itself things are beginning to breakdown. Marco Rubio got into a yelling match with weirdo Elon Musk and actually prevailed. Another cabinet member had to take babbling Trump off the phone and negotiate a deal with Trudeau himself. Trump is slowly on his way out, but how much damage he does on the way out is yet to be seen.
At any rate, somewhere on the far side of things thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are joining the souls of those of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam to lament being betrayed by the United States. But at the same time, the departed spirits of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger can take solace that their betrayal of an ally wasn't the work of a demented toddler.
Here in the US, the hardcore MAGA's are all saying it'll work out, or coming up with reason why betrayal is okay. It won't, and it isn't.
March 13, 2025
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Russia rejected lil Don's suggestion of a cease fire.
March 16, 2025
Middle Eastern War
The US struck the Houthis yesterday, who vowed retaliation.
March 17, 2025
Middle Eastern War
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Hegseth Says Campaign Against Houthis Will be
'Unrelenting' Until Hostilities Cease
March 17,
2025 | By Matthew Olay
During
a media interview yesterday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S.
military will continue to tactically engage Iranian-backed Houthis until they
stop acting aggressively against U.S. ships in the region.
Hegseth
commented on the topic following President Donald J. Trump's order for U.S.
Central Command to launch multiple airstrikes against Houthis in Yemen, March
15, 2025.
"Freedom
of navigation is basic; it's a core national interest," Hegseth said,
adding that the current campaign is about restoring deterrents in the region
in addition to freedom of navigation.
"The
minute the Houthis say, 'We'll stop shooting at your ships [and] we'll stop
shooting at your drones,' this campaign will end but, until then, it will be
unrelenting," he continued.
Hegseth
also said the airstrikes were meant to draw Iran's attention.
"The
message is clear to Iran … Your support of the Houthis needs to end
immediately. We will hold you accountable as the sponsor of this proxy, and I
echo [the president's] statement [that] we will not be nice about it,"
Hegseth said.
The
Houthis have been acting aggressively in the Red Sea region since October
2023, when a U.S. Navy destroyer had to intercept three land-attack cruise
missiles fired by the Houthis toward Israel.
Since
then, the Houthis have launched over 100 drone and missile attacks targeting
American and allied ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, resulting in
many commercial ships having to alter their routes to avoid the region at a
tremendous commercial cost.
Hegseth
likened the severe economic impact of the Houthi aggression in the region to
"being held hostage by a terrorist organization" and then pointed
out that the Trump administration has indeed labeled the Houthis as
such.
"To
the Houthis: [the airstrikes weren't] a one-night thing … This is about
stopping the shooting at assets in that critical waterway to reopen the
freedom of navigation, which is a core national interest of the United
States," Hegseth said, before again reemphasizing that Iran needs to
"back off" from enabling the Houthis.
Hegseth
said Iran and its additional military proxies — including Hamas and Hezbollah
— are in a "weakened state."
"But
it doesn't mean they still don't have the desire [for aggression]," he
said, adding that Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
"Iran
must get that clear message and negotiate the end of their pursuit for
nuclear weapons because … President Trump has said clearly that they will not
get a bomb," Hegseth said.
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March 19, 2025
Middle Eastern War
Israel is back to bombarding Gaza, so the cease fire did not hold.
Russo Ukrainian War
Putin agreed to an infrastructure ceasefire, which it turned around and immediately violated.
cont:
March 23, 2025
Middle Eastern War
The rocket and counterstrike feature of this war in Lebanon has returned.
Russo Ukrainian War
Ukraine has hit some major Russian air assets and fuel assets in the last couple of days. Russia had hit Kyiv.
March 24, 2025
The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen.
I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.
This is going to require some explaining.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic.
March 25, 2025
Middle Eastern War
The Trump administration petulantly denied texting war plans to The Atlantic, while insulting the recipient, while it simultaneously became more obvious that in fact it had occurred.
The US hit Houthi targets in Yemen again.
March 30, 2025
It's been a bad week, foreign policy wise, for the supposed great negotiator, Donald Trump.
United States v. Iran
In a press interview today Donald Trump threated to bomb Iran to the hilt if it does not enter into a nuclear deal with the United States.
Iran has replied it won't enter into direct talks with the US, but might be willing to discuss this matter in some other fashion.
Russo Ukrainian War
The great dealmaker also expressed frustration, or rather that he was "pissed off", with Putin, accusing him of lying and not wanting a peace.
Apparently Trump is the last guy on Earth who didn't already know this, besides flunky sycophants.
He's threating secondary tariffs.
Middle Eastern War.
Revealed on the leaked texts VP Vance was concerned that Trump didn't understand what the bombing. He said:
3 percent of US trade runs through the suez. 40 percent of European trade does. There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary. The strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS said, to send a message.
I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now. There’s a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.
April 2, 2025
Israel v. Hamas
Israel has announced its intends to seize "large" areas of land in Gaza.
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