Category Archives: Foreign Policy

Poland Won’t Import Your Troubles (But Will Import American Weapons)

“Your troubles” in this case include wokeness, illegal aliens, Islamic radicalism, EU overeach, Russian troops or gun control. First up: An interview with Polish MP Dominik Tarczynski: I haven’t remotely watched all of this yet, but just the first two … Continue reading →

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Jimmy Carter And The Weirdness Of The 1970s

The past is another country, and it’s hard to understand Jimmy Carter (who died yesterday at age 100) without understanding the very weird decade that thrust him into prominence. The cultural milieu of the 1970s usually gets squeezed down to … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm For December 27, 2024

Congratulations on making it to the end of a difficult but exhilarating 2024, and I hope you had a Merry Christmas! Christmas week is always slow, so this will be a smaller LinkSwarm than usual, and thank goodness for that. … Continue reading →

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ASML Exits, China Screwed

I’ve previously talked about China’s difficulties in catching up to the west in semiconductor manufacturing here, here, and here, among other places. To summarize: Western nations have an advanced, highly interconnected semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem that China doesn’t have the technical … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm For December 13, 2024

Because I had to get out my book catalog last week, I’ve been as busy as Kathleen Kennedy on Ruin Star Wars Day, so this is another two-weeks crammed into one LinkSwarm. It’s just been a packed two weeks, with … Continue reading →

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Russia Showing Visible Cracks

More than two years into Putin’s three day Special Operation, Russia is starting to show extensive cracks in its facade of normalcy. Would you believe the return of food rationing? Russian lawmakers have proposed introducing food ration cards across the … Continue reading →

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Is Damascus Falling? Update: Yep.

While we were looking at the rebel advance on Homs, another rebel force seems to have boiled up to successfully invest Damascus from the south. Syrian rebel groups reported gains in the country’s south on Saturday, capturing swaths of territory … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm For December 6, 2024

Greetings, and welcome to the Friday LinkSwarm! This one will be huge, since I didn’t do one last week. Biden pardons his crackhead/bagman son, Holman is serious about deporting illegal aliens, Trump taps some Texans, Did you hear that, after … Continue reading →

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Syria’s Civil War Unfreezes

And the latest long-simmering hotspot to flare up overnight is (spins wheel) SYRIA! Who had their chips on Syria? The Syria civil war has more or less been frozen for the last, what, two years? That’s not the case anymore, … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm For November 22, 2024

The Trump witchunt trial is suspended, PA Democrats give up the steal, the ruble collapses, a real estate developer is busted for bribery, thrash metal TDS, and an unexpected voice of sanity and reason from…Cenk Uygur? It’s the Friday LinkSwarm! … Continue reading →

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