The Reading Junkie

It is a popular argument, particularly in the USA, to scream “If you like X Country so much, why don’t you move there?” Of course it...

I’ve seen a lot of chatter online from people who are surprised by JD Vance’s big role in the Trump presidency, but it shouldn’t be ...

Many people don’t understand or are just in denial about the US-Russia talks that just took place in Saudi Arabia, and why they’re significant. Th...

All discussions about Ukraine, particularly the tentative Istanbul peace talks, remind me of the 1939 film adaption of Gone With the Wind. Early ...

A Russian prostitute, a German terrorist, a Texan lawyer, and a failed children’s book author walk into a bar. It sounds like the setup to a joke be...

I understood the Holodomor better, strangely enough, when I visited Armenia. In Yerevan, their capital city, there is a memorial and museum to the Arm...

Since 2022 I have argued that there was an obvious and growing schism between the military and civilian leadership of the USA. There have been such sc...

I have written about this fatal scale error several times before and I think it’s time to revisit it. Fatal scale error is frequently occurs wit...

Recently I saw a lovely 1940 film The Bright Path set in the 1930s. The main character Tanya is an ignorant, hysterical and illiterate peasa...

Today I am going to debunk all the myths about the offensive in the Kursk direction. Back in August I wrote that it seemed like the only reason the UA...

Four years after the attempted “insurrection” on January 6, Trump is now headed back to the White House. As it turns out, that wasn’...

Unfortunately, my Facebook was nuked. I suspect due to brigading. That’s unfortunate, as Facebook had many irl friends that I will probably never be...