On COI #720, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from Ukraine and the Middle East.
Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
How About a Winnable Nuclear Exchange, America?
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.
Like too many people, I sometimes make the mistake of talking about nuclear war, when it’s really annihilation and genocide we’re talking about.
Wars have winners and losers. In nuclear “war,” everyone loses. The planet loses. Life loses and death triumphs on a scale we simply can’t imagine.
Language is so important here. I grew up learning about nuclear exchanges. EXCHANGES! The U.S. military talks of nuclear modernization and “investing” in nukes when the only dividend of this “investment” is mass death.
Continue reading “How About a Winnable Nuclear Exchange, America?”
Conflicts of Interest: Israel’s War on the Children of Gaza
On COI #719, Connor Freeman and Kyle Anzalone discuss the impact of Israel’s onslaught on children.
Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Fourth-Graders Singing Military Songs To Celebrate War
After the fourth graders concluded singing the songs of the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, they were hailed as “our future heroes.” Fifty-caliber machine guns and other weapons were on display. An invocation was offered for those missing and captured. A bagpiper skirled a haunting benediction of “Amazing Grace” and the school kids returned to close it out with “Thank You, Soldier.”
In between there were speeches by local dignitaries and military officers as 1200 people chowed down on pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage gravy and biscuits, fruit salad, coffee and juice. When the grade schoolers filed out, several saluted, some tried a 10 year-old version of marching in step and nearly all said, “thank you for your service!”
So concluded the 20th annual Veterans Day Breakfast that filled the University of Toledo basketball arena on November 11.
Continue reading “Fourth-Graders Singing Military Songs To Celebrate War”
The Trillion-Dollar Blob
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.
In 2018, the Pentagon failed its first audit. In 2024, it failed its seventh audit in a row. The Pentagon has been “punished” for failing seven audits – and losing track of roughly $2 trillion in gear, weapons, and similar “assets” – with more money. Whether under Presidents Trump or Biden, the Pentagon budget has continued to soar toward a trillion dollars. That is the reward for total fiscal incompetence.
Congress says the Pentagon must achieve “a clean audit” by 2028. Imagine telling the IRS that you can’t account for your financials for seven straight years – and probably at least three more – but you hope to have a “clean” tax return after a decade of effort. And the IRS responds by giving you ever higher tax refunds that you haven’t earned. Nonsensical, isn’t it?
As America Barrels Toward War With Russia… Where’s Biden?
Ukraine is now firing US ATACMS long range missiles into Russia. They’re also firing long range UK Storm Shadow missiles into Russia. Ukrainians push the bottoms but US and UK military do the programming and technical support, without which no buttons can be pushed.
That puts Russia at de facto war with the US and UK, NATO as well for that matter.Russia made that point by unleashing a new hypersonic nuclear capable long range missile, Oreshnik, which obliterated a strategic Ukrainian military target. The point was that the Oreshnik, which can destroy any target with unstoppable speed, can pulverize high value NATO targets throughout Europe. Compared to Oreshnik, US ATACMAS and UK Storm Shadows are like bottle rockets. Their sole military use appears to be provoking all out war.
In spite of the Russian warning, France’s Foreign Minister Jean –Noel Barrot just announced France will allow its SCALPS version to the UK Storm Shadows bottle rocket to be fired by Ukraine into Russia.
Continue reading “As America Barrels Toward War With Russia… Where’s Biden?”