First, the Australian experience tells us that regular judges and government employees will not cooperate with the merely elected government. So the merely elected government has to rely on the military and on “civilian contractors” (mercenaries). The merely elected government has to give the “civilian contractors” sovereign immunity against the courts, which makes them not very civilian at all. Without sovereign immunity, any time a “civilian contractor” forcibly prevents an “asylum seeker” from going wherever he wills, it will be …
Category: war
Minor Australian politician says out loud what everyone in the world is thinking
Josh Frydenberg, Australian minister for natural resources says: a country that loses control of its borders not only invites the tragedy of the loss of life at sea … but also the direct security threats that are incurred by not knowing exactly the backgrounds of the people that you accept into your own country It is odd that in the entire world, I cannot find any other politician saying this out loud in plain words. Waiting for Trump, who so often …
Yes, we are at war with Islam
And always have been. For over a thousand years, a multitude of nations, states, peoples, cultures, religions, and empires have attempted to coexist with Islam. None have succeeded. We will not be the first. If you have a few percent of Muslims, you have what you can pretend is a major crime problem. If you have ten to thirty percent, you have a low level civil war, which intermittently becomes a high level civil war whenever you relax or show …
Bay of Pigs operation
Bay of pigs official history: “On January 1, 1959, a young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro (1926-) drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973), the nation’s American-backed president. For the next two years, officials at the U.S. State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) attempted to push Castro from power. “ But it was the state department that overthrew Batista and installed Castro. Maybe they repented of this when Castro revealed himself to be …
Putin successfully stabilizing Syria
Where you have a substantial Islamic minority, the only stable solution is for Islam to rule or to be violently and brutally crushed. Nothing in between works, despite over a thousand years of governments, peoples, cultures, and religions trying to find something in between, and endlessly failing. Where you have several different substantial Islamic factions in a single country, the only solution is a brutal dictatorship to keep the Islamics in line. That, or genocide. It is the nature of …
Putin reads neoreaction
Or perhaps he listens in to State Department phone calls. Putin on Islamic State as a state department proxy: In these circumstances, it is hypocritical and irresponsible to make loud declarations about the threat of international terrorism while turning a blind eye to the channels of financing and supporting terrorists, including the process of trafficking and illicit trade in oil and arms. It would be equally irresponsible to try to manipulate extremist groups and place them at one’s service in …
Arab Spring
Arab Spring has predictably been an utter disaster. By undermining the legitimacy of existing authority, it has turned the middle east into a sea of blood and fire, the worst cases being Syria and Libya. Middle Easterners are mostly of inferior races, and at the best of times, it is hard for them to maintain the basic functions of a modern society, hard to keep the electricity running, the water running, the sewage off the streets, and all that. To …
The 2007 British surrender incident.
A British warship was sailing in Iraqi waters, waters that Iran had in 1975 agreed were Iraqi, which treaty it had never disavowed. Iraq was at the time effectively ruled by the British and Americans. Two small boats with fifteen British sailors left the warship to inspect a small ship for contraband. Under the nose of the British warship, in Iraqi waters, three Iranian coastguard vessels kidnapped those British sailors. Despite immensely superior firepower, those aboard to the British warship …
The British military as a self licking lollipop
Britain lately has been suffering completely ridiculous one sided defeats by small ill equipped poorly trained Arab forces. I wondered how this could be so, so I purchased Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure tl;dr During World War II Churchill complained: “Pray explain to me how it is that in the Middle East 750,000 men always turn up for their pay and rations but when it comes to fighting only 100,000 turn up.” When fighting Arabs in Iraq and Afghanistan, …
A lost military technology
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, wealthy private individuals substantially supported the military, with a particular wealthy men buying stuff for a particular regiment or particular fort. Noblemen paid high prices for military commands, and these posts were no sinecure. You got the obligation to substantially supply the logistics for your men, the duty to obey stupid orders that would very likely lead to your death, the duty to lead your men from in front while wearing a costume …