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Liberty's Labors Lost / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published March 18, 2026 · Last modified April 15, 2026
During the absurd and wholly outrageous test-run assault on Venezuela, in which Donald Trump ordered an authoritarian president kidnapped and then “replaced” with that same president’s regime, all with the intention of grabbing control of that country’s oil reserves, though without having asked any of America’s leading oil men in advance whether they would be stupid enough to set up shop under the...
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...
The question that forms the title of this short post has been answered in one of the clearest ways possible: Appeasement of a tyrannical aggressor becomes open and active alliance with that aggressor when the appeaser explicitly sides with the aggressor in rejecting a simple UN resolution reiterating that body’s three-year-long condemnation of the tyrant’s ongoing war of annihilation against a sovereign nation,...
A vainglorious megalomaniac with the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons is fighting a war of aggression intended to break the will and splinter the unity of the West once and for all. The most populous country on the planet, with the largest military and third largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, has used the world’s economic opportunism to pay for the development of...
In less than two weeks’ time, The United States of America will vote for one of the two alternative methods of losing World War III. A vote for the Democratic Party as it now exists is a vote for engaging in the fight but then, when the priorities of economic totalitarianism at home and global progressive activism abroad rise to the forefront of...
Liberty's Labors Lost / What is The Establishment? / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published September 19, 2023
The American government’s old guard establishment in both parties wants Ukraine to lose the war, but slowly. The establishment’s upstart wing, comprised mainly of populists of the right, including the farcically-named House Freedom Caucus, wants Russia to win, and quickly. Neither side is quite willing to state its genuine position directly, at least so far, although the loonier puppets of the populist faction,...
Yet again, Jordan Peterson, the energetic academic psychologist cum profiteering alt-right blowhard, has put his mouth where he believes the money is. That is, since most of his paying audience — believe me, he has no interest in any audience that is not paying, and by god they certainly will pay — is comprised of young males who believe Donald Trump is infallible,...
I have taught a significant number of foreign students in Korea who have come here for any number of reasons, from participating in formal academic exchange programs to being drawn by a fantasizing obsession with K-pop singers. I have enjoyed many memorable experiences with these visitors to my classes over the years. Recently, however, two particular cases occur to me often. One was...
I am just placing this out here for those who, like myself, do not have Twitter accounts and generally do not waste time in the world of competing echo chambers. Here, for once, is an echo that deserves to reverberate around for a while. Open your mind to it, and give it your full consideration. That’s all….
If you were facing a necessary and inescapable war, one which would unavoidably result in significant loss of life on your side, which of the following strategies would you choose? (1) Pursue a short war with a decisive win, resigning oneself to heavy losses early in the name of getting the worst of it over with and proceeding to the victory parade as...
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