. NATO has been dominated by the American way of war from the beginning. This American way of war rested on superior industrial output, domi...

. I noticed some not fully idiotic people on Twitter are praising Hegseth.  That seems ludicrous considering the overt stupidity and incompe...

. There's a curious thing happening when I do thought experiments, trying to optimise things to the best of my knowledge, processing abi...

. Let's hope 2026 gets better.  We've had enough really bad years in the West for a lifetime since 2001. S O defence_and_freed...

. Here's a difficult thing about ethnic cleansing. Suppose the evil party wants a people gone, ded or alive. Just gone from a specific a...

. Suppose a man gets killed in his home. He had a long and violent dispute with his neighbour.   Should the police investigate said neighbou...

. I ask you to read this (shockingly, already 15 years old!) blog post first: /2010/09/do-opponents-misunderstand-each-other.html So, Iran ...

. I think I figured out why people have such a hard time to believe that the current American government is Fascist. There are two paths to...

. Considering this https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/ I'd like to recommend a couple past blog...

. It appears that playing the victim card to get a carte blanche to commit offences yourself doesn't work so well for Israel any more. ...

. I saw an interesting thought on the internet: What if Kim Jong-Un would run for president in the U.S. (assuming he was eligible; natural ...

. We've seen some strange behaviour by some people in the past weeks. Some people who were famous for something (often advocacy) began ...

. Turkey is making demands for a Swedish accession to the North Atlantic Treaty. I've seen very negative opinions about this. It's ...

. The Americans have that derogatory word " un-American " to describe that something done by certain Americans is (supposedly) ve...

. There are certain ideological dead ends that are plaguing the Western World, albeit with very varying degrees among its countries. For ex...

Defence policy (in the sense of providing security to your own nation against blockade/bombing/invasion, not in the sense of quasi-imperiali...

. Imagine your country's economy can be switched off by another country. Further imagine that also much of private life can be switched...

. Paul Krugman promoted the phrase "Very Serious People" to describe people who showed a certain behaviour in regard to economics ...

. The Russian government influenced the right wing in the West for years, if not decades. Russia was presented as a beacon of civilisation ...

Numbers are hard, and randomly very scary or not scary at all to many people. A long time ago I was paid to tutor a pupil who had difficulty...