Trump: “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability” “Why”, you ask “Cold war is over. Surely we have more nukes than we know what to do with.” America’s nuclear weapons are, for the most part, thermonuclear, and need a little bit of tritium to get them to ignite. Tritium has a half life of twelve years, and due to technological decline, we have not been able to make tritium for quite a while. So the number …
Category: war
“Love Live’s Here” in action
Since Richard Spencer is a hard target, and since the alt right will not disown him, “Love Lives Here” is now gunning for his mother. I think it is time to show “Love Lives Here” a little tough love. This Tanya Gersh is doing a great job at dispelling hostile stereotypes of Jews. </sarcasm>
Fall of Aleppo reveals that asymmetric warfare is bunkum
fourteen months ago, I said that Aleppo would very shortly fall. Eight months ago I said that it had fallen for certain values of fallen, and its fall indicates that asymmetric warfare only works when the stronger side is fighting with one hand tied behind its back – usually tied by the State Department. My prolific commenter B complained that Aleppo had not actually fallen yet, therefore this failed to demonstrate that asymmetric warfare is bunk. OK. Now it really …
Hard core and softcore Trump appointments
Early appointments hard core, and primarily directed at those departments that you need to prevent a coup by the permanent government against the president, or make a self coup by the president against the permanent government. Later appointments softcore cuckservative, and directed at those departments that are irrelevant in the event of a coup. A big exception to this is the Department of State, which applies semi soft power to overthrow foreign governments and manipulate political outcomes within America. It …
The Overton Bubble
The Overton window has formed a bubble. People inside the bubble now refuse to have anything to do with those outside the bubble, refuse to hear, refuse to understand, refuse even to notice, react to them only with ignorant crazy hatred, and if anyone respectable shows signs of listening, he loses respectability and gets cast out of the bubble. No longer will respectable people have anything to do with him. He shall be friendless and alone. Except that so many …
Trump’s secret plan to defeat Isis
He is not telling me, and it is risky to attempt to predict the actions of individuals, but Trump has a long history of picking up hundred dollar bills lying on the pavement that everyone else refuses to pick up. And for the defeat of Isis, the hundred dollar bill lying on the pavement is: Islamic State’s claim to be the Caliphate rests on it being a state, on it controlling territory, a capital, a uniformed army with proper chain …
Don’t Stop
Scott Alexander has published an essay calling on his fellow leftists to stop screaming racist-misogynist-homophobe-literally-Hitler at everyone all the time at maximum volume. And a lot of gutless ladyboy cuckservatives are so traumatized at being unkindly treated by the left that they are citing it favorably. I would unkindly interpret his essay has “Please do not set fire to the Reichstag while Trump has the army and the police, and stop being mean to the legacy Americans until we have …
In favor of taking the left on helicopter rides to the Pacific
Trump is our leader, and Trump plans to do this in accord with the spirit of the constitution, which is to say, without helicopter rides to the Pacific. Maybe it can be made to work that way, and if can be made to work that way, its our duty to make it work that way. But the left really are hateful horrible thoroughly nasty people. Notice for example that servants of the Clintons have a remarkable rate of “suicide” and …
Draining the swamp
Trump has promised to drain the swamp. Then in his acceptance speech, he promised not to drain the swamp. This is less worrying than it might seem, since when you purge powerful people, you don’t want them to see it coming. From now till the start of the purge, he is going to be playing his cards very close to his chest. Any predictions made from his behavior between now and the purge will be incorrect, because his behavior between …
Malaysia departs the blue empire
After a wonderful speech indicting American anarcho tyranny, Duterte announced the Philippines would no longer be a vassal of the US and would henceforth be a vassal of China. And how about a bilateral trade deal between the Philippines and China? He then went to China’s ancient, traditional, and natural enemy, Japan, and said the Philippines would not be anyone’s vassal, and how about a bilateral trade deal between the Philippines and Japan? A little while ago the notoriously and …