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It's kind of quaint that international relations and political science clowns are still so attached to ideas of Westphalian order and sovereignty. Almost like a whore maintaining s...
War is the family business, or why the aristocracy went into universal decline. One area of romanticism that the reactionary right holds for the utility of the nobility really fail...
Liberal third world compradors are just temporarily embarrassed first worlders. It's not just that they have a different way of thinking relative to the native, they don't even con...
One of the uncommented features about the Ukraine war is the age discrepancy between major decision makers in Ukraine and Russia. Simply put, strategic decisions in Russia are driv...
India's tortuous progress towards the planned commissioning of their new aircraft carrier, the Vikrant, sometime next month serves as a good example of why I stopped following Indi...
One of the reasons to be skeptical about the future is that technological optimism is wildly misplaced. Outside of the proliferation of the integrated circuit, there hasn't been an...
The greatest asset that enabled the age of European colonialism wasn't a technological advantage translated into a military one. That was an advantage but not an insurmountable one...
From an orthodox Leninist perspective the American left is simply unserious about politics. They make the critical mistake of confusing tactics with goals. The tactics should be de...
If you want to know why DC think tanks are so cretinous and dysfunctional, you have to ultimately begin with personnel. The black pill is that they are filled with the poli-sci and...
The whole Nupur Sharma controversy is a reminder that so far the only political system to have tamed Islamic sectarianism is Leninism. Liberal and quasi liberal systems can manage...
I wrote this a few years ago but people still aren't aware of how a chaos maximization strategy serves US interests. People like to compare US hegemony to late imperial Rome but ar...
A lot of American conservatives have the mistaken belief that the cadre of homosexuals, sociologists, anthropologists, and sundry "social scientists" are engaged a purely destructi...