Tag: war

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Given their bellicose nature and what is at stake, you would think that Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the Pentagon busybodies would heed Machiavelli’s advice that “A prince should have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline.” But the 2026 Iran War shows that they are complete amateurs in the art of war. (more…)

USS Gerald Ford, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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More respondents now say that the US-Israeli relationship is a net negative than a net positive. Declining support for Israel is likely accelerating.

The number of respondents who said they support airstrikes on behalf of Israel fell from 37% in July, 2025, to 27.9%. This drop was largely driven by Republicans.

The 27.5% who support striking Iran are outnumbered by the 52.2% who oppose it.

A US strike on Iran could cost Republicans 4.7% of the white vote in the midterms, including 13.8% of white voters age 18-29.

48.3% of respondents said they can think of a concrete example of Israel hurting America interests, up from 41.9% in 2025 and 29.3% in 2024. Only 29.3% claim they can think of an example of Israel aiding American interests.

Originally posted at The Homeland Institute. (more…)

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Frédéric Saenen
Léon Degrelle
Paris: Perrin, 2025

Years ago, in the pages of his own publication, Spearhead, John Tyndall, then leader of Britain’s National Front, wrote approvingly that in Europe in the 1930’s “strong men came forward” to restore authority and a sense of purpose to their respective nations. It was a euphemistic but accurate characterization of the nationalist leaders after the Great War who radically opposed both Western parliamentary democracy and Bolshevism and who are loosely classified as fascists. (more…)

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Victor Davis Hanson
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
New York: Basic Books, 2024

Professor Victor Davis Hanson is a classics professor and an author of many books on ancient history and war. He is on the political right, leaning towards the civic nationalist and conservative side of things. (more…)

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In the shadowed corners of the internet, a Russian website emerged like a grim auction block, eerily resembling an online slave market, where profiles of Ukrainian children – kidnapped from Russian-occupied territories – were advertised for “adoption.” Accompanied by descriptions of their physical builds, eye and hair color, temperaments, and ages, these listings reduced Ukrainian children to commodities, dangling them before prospective Russian families eager to claim a piece of the spoils.

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Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
New York: Crown Currency, 2025

Appeals to virtue and character, having been excluded for the most part from the civic and political realms, have migrated, or rather, been co-opted and appropriated, by the corporate. In 2013, Ram Trucks produced a television commercial featuring a speech titled “So God Made a Farmer” from 1978 by Paul Harvey, a radio broadcaster born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (more…)

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We are back in Odessa. The delivery round has been successfully completed. Only one crate of medical supplies remains to be taken to Kyiv. (more…)

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The road winds through beautiful pine forests, following the banks of the Oskil River. The trees are tall and old, but their trunks bear fresh, black wounds where fire and shrapnel have torn through them. The wind whispers through the needles. (more…)

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We head out of the steppes, moving north into Ukraine. Here, the landscape becomes more familiar to an Estonian eye: we pass through pine forests and once again see log houses by the roadside. (more…)

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A unique road culture has developed along the roads leading to the front. In the small town of Pokrovske, military shops, cafés, and burger stands have sprung up to serve the large number of soldiers passing through every day. (more…)

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In December 2024, the Estonian aid organization Mission Ukraine carried out an aid mission to the Ukrainian frontline. Five men took part in the journey: Andri Kiige, Margo Rääk, Georg Kirsberg, Lauri Koni, and I. (more…)

Smedley Butler in 1929. (Image source: US Marine Corps)

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When I look back on all of America’s wars, sometimes I wonder how many of them were justified. By entering a certain war, did America’s leaders truly have the welfare of the people in mind? Or were they more concerned about their own power and enrichment? I certainly don’t have the historical chops to exhaustively break down every war the United States has ever fought, but if there is one thing the dissident Right has taught me these past few years, it’s that when the government tells you it’s time for war, hold on to your wallet — because you’re likely to get fleeced. (more…)

Socrates in the Agora. (Image source: kriserdmann at Freepik.)

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The first word of the Gorgias is “polemos,” war, and it is spoken by Callicles: “War and battle, this, they say, is how you should do your part in them, Socrates.” (more…)