Biden’s Re-Election Hinges on the Success of Kiev’s Counteroffensive

Biden’s Re-Election Hinges on the Success of Kiev’s Counteroffensive

Whichever way one games it out, there’s close to no chance that Kiev’s counteroffensive will meet the Western public’s expectations absent some black swan event, which means that Biden will be running for re-election with two losses under his belt in Afghanistan and Ukraine. It’s difficult to imagine that Americans will give him and his…

Everything’s Getting Way More Dangerous and Way More Stupid

Everything’s Getting Way More Dangerous and Way More Stupid

Moon of Alabama has an article out on how an uncomfortable number of relatively restraint-oriented foreign policy officials have been exiting the Biden administration, while a China hawk has just been appointed the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Antiwar has an article out about how New York congressman Jerry Nadler told an…

Clown Prince Zelensky’s Saudi and Japanese Slime Trail

Clown Prince Zelensky’s Saudi and Japanese Slime Trail

The way forward for Japan, as well as Taiwan and Korea, is to emulate Saudi Arabia and to tiptoe away as gingerly as they can from their American lords and masters. Fresh from defiling Western Europe, Clown Prince Zelensky’s slug show next hit Saudi Arabia and Japan, two countries where protocol and presentation are paramount….

NATO Might Consider Belarus to be “Low-Hanging Fruit” During Kiev’s Upcoming Counteroffensive

NATO Might Consider Belarus to be “Low-Hanging Fruit” During Kiev’s Upcoming Counteroffensive

A preplanned Color Revolution could serve as the public pretext for NATO-backed Belarusian “rebels” to invade their country from Ukraine with full backing from Kiev’s “Lublin Triangle” allies in Poland and Lithuania alongside its British one from last year’s trilateral security pact. Those first two’s potential involvement in complementary invasions could lead to nuclear brinksmanship…

No Truce With the Heartland

No Truce With the Heartland

All of us so-called geopolitical analysts owe a debt to Halford John Mackinder. His 1904 paper, “The Geographical Pivot of History” is the basis for nearly all strategic thinking in today’s policy rooms, think tanks, and military academies of the West. We’ve all heard the first three rules of Mackinder: Who rules Eastern Europe commands…

What Comes Next After Russia’s Victory in the Battle of Artyomovsk?

What Comes Next After Russia’s Victory in the Battle of Artyomovsk?

This piece will assess the state of affairs as it now exists with the intent of obtaining a better idea about what might come next. Russia declared victory in the Battle of Artyomovsk on Saturday after 224 days of fighting. Zelensky previously predicted in early March that his opponents might roll through the rest of…