On Fridy, August 11, YouTube shut down the US Tour of Duty channel. The reason cited was “violations of our Community Guidelines,” although no specific example was cited. Neither was a warning issued. Simple termination, with prejudice. There are some, including a certain former US Marine electro-optical repair specialist-turned-geopolitical analyst, who view the YouTube action […]
Gonzalo Lira “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Sun Tzu, The […]
Robert F. Kennedy in Poland, June 1964 To say that Poland is at the forefront of the West’s proxy war with Russia, in which Ukraine’s horrible losses from the Western perspective are seen as a “relatively low cost”, would be an understatement. One can always count on Warsaw to lead the charge in NATO and the […]
The Trinity test of the Atomic Bomb, July 16, 1945 Assessing the birth of atomic America, put on display as only Hollywood can, I watched Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. I walked away from the theater acknowledging the success of the film in portraying the protagonist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, as a fellow human traveler in this adventure […]
Lenin Square, Novosibirsk, May 1, 2023 (Note: This is the third installment in what will be more than a dozen articles about my 26-day visit to Russia, and the lessons I learned as a result. If you enjoy this series and would like to see more content such as this, please sign up for a […]
