. I leaned a bit out of the window and anticipated doom on Twitter: https://x.com/DefenceFreedom/status/2016438597230961078 The U.S.' pu...

. So according to the news, the German minister of defence comes with news from NATO; according to NATO directives or whatever Germany is su...

. Budget deficits are no problem for a state as long as the trend GDP growth (and thus trend revenue growth) is stronger than the growth of ...

. So he doesn't understand why, and I suppose that's because his training never equipped him to understand something like this even...

. The political consequences. I wrote in 2016 that one shouldn't quit NATO ASAP when America turns fascist, despite the summer of 1914...

. I wrote before about how the world's shipbuilding industry appears to be concentrated in approximately even shares in PR China, South...

. I studied warfare for a very long time, and it's self-evident to me how much of an industrial effort both world wars, the Korean War ...

. The naval-minded people love to pretend that maritime trade is a bigger thing than it is. They usually use the metric of % world trade in...

. Certain people on the intertubes are claiming that sanctions on Russia don't work, that sanctions circumventing renders them moot. It...

. It's a tragedy, but the current Russo-Ukrianian War shows that modern inter-state warfare can last a long time, just as in the past. ...

. I wrote about this before. /2008/03/shocking-shipbuilding-industry.html /2014/05/global-shipbuilding-industries.html It's nonsense fo...

. Finland joins NATO. It's unfashionable to think so, but alliances used to be a concept in foreign policy to further the own nation...

  "Dunning-Kruger effect" is the term for people basically being too stupid and incompetent to understand that they are too stupid...