An American tourist in Russia
Ian Kummer 
Call me biased, but I happen to be a fan of the American system, and time has proven it to be reliable and resilient. However, it has one extremely serious point of failure that has only grown worse with time. I will explain, and use the 1986 American animated film An American Tail to illustrate what I mean.
I read liberal claptrap on social media, and they almost invariably start their blather with “I’m sure Putin won’t use nukes,” and they say it with the absolute confidence of a psychic. Aside from being stupid, it’s not their fault. This is the result of decades of propaganda. Every schoolboy knows about Mutually Assured Destruction. … Read more
Today I jumped on Foreign Policy Review to talk about the Biden administration’s “target fixation” on Ukraine, the Trojan Horse of “civil rights” NGOs, how corruption in Russia compares with the USA, and how people today perceive Lenin and Stalin. And of course, what I think of the latest SBU drama with Gonzalo Lira.
The biopic about Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir premiered at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival and is scheduled for release in the USA later this month. I of course cannot render full judgement until seeing the full movie, but the theatrical trailer is crammed with every Biden 2024 talking point, so let’s start with those.
The Irish Brigade by J.F. Holmes, despite being a work of sci-fi, is a sharply written apologetic manifesto for neoliberalism and globalism.
For context, I’ve had a PDF of this book two years ago. However, there was the COVID lockdown, I took too much xanax, and my reviews and other writing endeavors were, ahem interrupted. Now, finally, I read it, and found the experience worthwhile. Contemporary art and literature is worth looking at because it says something about our culture and mood. The Irish Brigade is one such example. It’s a tirade against patriotism and morality.