“Houston, we have a problem here.” The iconic phrase uttered by astronaut Jack Swigert and echoed, albeit with a touch more restraint—to convey calm—by Jim Lovell, commander of the Apollo 13 space mission in April 1970, has informally become the alert used when an unforeseen event arises, indicating a difficult situation requiring immediate attention. For cinematic purposes, in the film ...
The threat of a global war… It is no longer hidden from view. Everyone is talking, writing and debating about what is approaching. Every other day, Trump threatens to wipe Iranian civilization off the face of the earth. The Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which roughly 30 percent of the world’s oil trade passes, have been ...
Last week we discussed two factors that demonstrate the strategic decline of the United States Armed Forces. Now, we will mention the remaining two, namely those related to infrastructure and equipment. Regarding infrastructure, an inspection conducted by the Pentagon’s Office of the Inspector General noted that several U.S. military installations in the Pacific Theater of Operations exhibit “serious deterioration,” affecting ...
Last October, I wrote an article outlining the internal problems plaguing the United States Armed Forces. At that time, I emphasized doctrinal issues where disagreements arose between the political and military leaders of the Pentagon, particularly regarding the new defense strategy prepared by the Trump Administration. In that writing, I pointed out that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s viewpoint—which has ...
In recent weeks, we reported on Trump’s concern about what he considers a “grave threat” to the entire American governmental system. Referring to the enemies of the system without hesitation, he defined them as Marxists and said that what they were doing was “communism, socialism, Marxist deviations that started from a premise opposed to that of the United States.” He ...
Last week we left open the questions about: What is really happening in the United States? And why the desperation of its elites? The answers might lie in a series of election results in recent months that are producing what the mainstream media are calling “a shift of the Democratic Party to the far left,” placing the “socialist and Muslim” ...
While understandable, the eagerness of Trump and his cronies to resurrect something he himself declared dead—communism—is nonetheless surprising. In recent days, and on more than one occasion, the President of the United States and various spokespeople for the American political system have mentioned the topic. In past writings, I have noted that in each of his speeches at the United ...