Enjoying the view from Limbo
Here, from Axios, is the funniest headline I have read this year, or perhaps ever: Scoop: US suggests Cuba complicit in helping Russia fight Ukraine. No, of course, when I say this is the funniest headline of the year, I am not referring to the usual news media illiteracy that has become so commonplace that we barely notice it anymore. For does not...
The Trump administration has spent much time and energy in recent months desperately trying to prop up Viktor Orbán in Hungary, in yet another obvious self-revelation of the truth of what Trump likes to call “The Russia Hoax.” Hungary was occupied and decimated for decades by a brutal, expansionist Russian dictatorship which supported a series of Hungarian puppet regimes to oppress the people...
America Descending / Ideas and Reflections / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published April 8, 2026 · Last modified April 15, 2026
Here is a breaking news headline from CBS News: “Trump agrees to two-week ceasefire with Iran, delaying large-scale attack.” And from the accompanying story: President Trump said Tuesday he has agreed to a “double sided CEASEFIRE” with Iran, less than two hours before his deadline for Iran to either cut a deal with the U.S. or face massive strikes on its power plants. “I agree to suspend...
America Descending / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published April 6, 2026 · Last modified April 15, 2026
The United States of America, in its hapless Keystone Kops war of whim against Iran, had two alternatives for pursuing its non-mission, based on the real-life demonstration of modern warfare being played out for all the world over the past four years. She could have chosen the Ukrainian model — innovative, adaptive, cost-efficient, resourceful, sleek, dogged, and backed by a nation fully engaged...
There is no country on Earth today with a more reasonable and moderate governmental structure than the United States of America, and yet there is no country on Earth today with a more irrational and immoderate head of state than the United States of America. Can a representative republic with a consitution that meticulously entrenches strict limits on federal government authority transform itself...
Headline I just read, from Real Clear Politics: Mark Levin: Bannon, Tucker Carlson, and Megyn Kelly have contributed nothing to conservatism or the country. Of course I will not read, and do not recommend, the accompanying article, apparently a transcript from an episode of the money- and audience-grubbing Levin’s Trump sycophant jamboree hilariously called “Liberty’s Voice.” But I will merely point out, for...
The baby boomer generation, or rather the portion of that generation that did not permanently lose itself in the “drug culture” of the 1960s, invented the phrase “The Greatest Generation” to describe those Americans who had lived through, and won, World War II. That is to say, they invented this nickname to describe their parents. A quaint tribute, much like giving your mother...
Bear with me as I meander through a few vague thoughts about the war in Iran (and by extension everywhere else) that have been swirling around in my head this past week, and which I have deliberately chosen not to catch, ground, and tie to a spot, for the simple reason that some realities are too ugly to entertain for more than a...
Liberty's Labors Lost / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published March 2, 2026 · Last modified March 15, 2026
A text message exchange with a young friend of mine yesterday, March 1st here in Korea: She: I’m struggling with deciding how many clothes I should bring to Seoul. On another side of the earth, war is happening.I: Yes, there are now multiple wars happening, due to a few idiots who think they can do whatever they want. I hope you will be...
A few random thoughts (not all of them mine) regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Donald Trump’s global reign of economic terror by means of his “signature policy initiative,” namely his tariffs-by-mood-ring-and-mean-girl-whim fanaticism. First, from former Republican congressman Justin Amash on X: I’m not sure there’s ever been a president more distant from the ideals of the Founders of the...
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