Category Archives: Foreign Policy

Russia’s Withdrawal From START: Less Than Meets The Eye

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Lawrence Person

It’s tempting to write up a piece on the one year anniversary of Russia launching its illegal war of territorial aggression against Ukraine, but the situation right now is largely a static cycle of “Russia grinds out gains near Bakhmut … Continue reading →

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Haley? No. Pence? No. Pompeo? No. Sununu? No.

Posted on February 12, 2023 by Lawrence Person

Now that it’s less than two years before the 2024 Presidential election, a small crop of Republicans whose last names are not “DeSantis” or “Trump” seem to have convinced themselves that they’re viable Republican presidential candidates. These people are either … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for February 10, 2023

Posted on February 10, 2023 by Lawrence Person

Here’s a longer-than-usual LinkSwarm, since last week’s edition was wiped out by the ice storm power outage. The leftwing corruption of all government institutions continues apace. “US lost 287,000 jobs while government was reporting +1 million in gains.” (Hat tip: … Continue reading →

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American Business And Chinese Money

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Lawrence Person

Despite increasing sanctions and scrutiny on hostile Chinese business practices and intellectual property theft, private equity firms have previously managed to mostly evade scrutiny for taking Chinese money. That may finally be changing. Takeaways: “The US is starting to wise … Continue reading →

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India’s Semiconductor Push: More Smoke Than Fire

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Lawrence Person

India has been trying to get into semiconductor fabrication for a while now, and after announcing a $10 billion investment fund, and with China locked out of so much semiconductor technology, there have been a lot of news bubbling up, … Continue reading →

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Follow-Up on Ukraine’s Kamikaze Drones

Posted on February 6, 2023 by Lawrence Person

Given that the original video generated doubts as to its veracity, I thought I would post this followup that goes into more detail about Ukraine’s low-cost suicide drone/loitering munition. These look considerably less jury-rigged than the previous drones. “These are … Continue reading →

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The Flying Yeet of Death

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Lawrence Person

I’ve previously covered suicide drones and drones dropping RPGs. Now Ukraine is evidently cutting out the middleman and passing the savings on to Ivan by just strapping RPGs to light drones and guiding them in. Here’s a screen-grab of this … Continue reading →

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Japan, The Netherlands Join China Semiconductor Ban

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Lawrence Person

Japan and The Netherlands have evidently decided to sign onto the Chinese semiconductor ban. The talks between the US, Japan, and the Netherlands over wider bans on exports of semiconductor technology to China have reportedly seen the three agree to … Continue reading →

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The Latest, Greatest Russian Vaporware Coming To Ukraine

Posted on January 28, 2023 by Lawrence Person

Once again, Russia has announced its latest Wunderwaffe is coming to Ukraine, which ZeroHedge treats seriously, because ZeroHedge. Western media outlets flooded the airways with hope for Ukraine this week as the US prepares to send 31 main battle tanks … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm For January 27, 2023

Posted on January 27, 2023 by Lawrence Person

Democrats enabling sexual predators (yet again), more tanks for Ukraine information, and the unexpected return of Storm Drain Woman. It’s the Friday LinkSwarm!  Democrat-run California loves releasing pedophiles from prison early. Published in November of 2022, the story indicated … Continue reading →

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