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...
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...
Pete Hegseth, U.S. Secretary of Cowardly Murder and Russian Capitulation, has said that Americans are too fat and too dumb to serve in the military. He is surely right about this. Fortunately, Hegseth himself is not fat. There is no such thing as a “narco-terrorist,” just as there is no such thing as “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” These terms of art have been manufactured...
Three and a half years into the Ukraine war, millions of people on both sides are dead or wounded — every single one of those casualties firmly and clearly resting on the head of one man, the man without whom the war would not exist, would have no reason to exist. Donald Trump’s mental acuity and moral compass are encapsulated in the fact...
Suddenly, Donald Trump is getting tough with Vladimir Putin, after ten years of political grovelling at the man’s feet. Suddenly, Trump is demanding that the press and the rest of the whole wide world forget about all the fake news related to that “creep” Jeffrey Epstein, after helping to wind up his cult for years with vague insinuations about “the list” which would...
Ukraine has just carried out a stunningly clever military operation at multiple and far-flung locations throughout Russia, successfully destroying a remarkable proportion of Vladimir Putin’s military aircraft at their home bases, before they could be used to inflict more destruction upon Ukraine’s civilian population and infrastructure. This operation was apparently planned and prepared for over a year in secret. It continues in spectacular...
Liberty's Labors Lost / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published March 20, 2025 · Last modified March 27, 2025
Since my website has essentially become a repository of judgments and reflections that almost no one currently alive on this planet will ever read, let alone care about, why not open it up today for the words of another man in a similar situation, though one whose voice speaks with considerably more practical urgency than mine? His pleas will fall on ears at...
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