Ian Kummer

I'm a former US Marine fire support specialist, and also worked for about 10 years as a public affairs specialist in the US Army National Guard and Reserves. For that reason I will mostly opine about the "information operations" aspect of current events. Please see my "about" page for more information. If you would like to reach out, you can email me at ian.michael@readingjunkie.com

Why I Stopped Watching the Critical Drinker

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why i stopped watching the critical drinker

The main reason I stopped watching the Critical Drinker and the other usual suspects in the right-wing critic YouTube sphere, aside from getting really repetitive, is how easily they’re baited into loving slop. It’s usually not even conservative slop, it’s just slightly less woke slop. Woke-lite, if you will. Top Gun 2.0 and Reacher are … Read more

“Threads” Was Right About Iran

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"Threads" Was Right About Iran

Almost five years ago I watched and reviewed Threads, a “pseudo-documentary” film about World War III starting in Iran. In hindsight, it’s amazingly close to how the Iran situation is actually unfolding, but the serious flaws I pointed out in 2021 still apply.

Is the War Against Iran a Class Struggle or a National Struggle?

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As Trump’s war of choice against Iran spreads and escalates, the question that frequently comes up is “Why?” Tonight on the show wih Billy Bob we will debate the “why” of Iran, going back at least 200 years to the Great Game between the British and Russian Empires. Is this a war between nations – Anglos and Russians, Jews and Persians, and so on, or is this the Marxist class struggle; a war fueled by the capitalist class’s desire for control, and to maintain that control at any cost?