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A Georgia auto-shop owner and former Army tank crewman who served in the early Iraq occupation, then came home to run his family's two-generation garage. He spent fifteen years with the waiting-room TV on Fox News before his own faith led him to see the nationalism he'd absorbed as the opposite of the discipleship his Bible asked for. He writes on war, strategy, and the military-industrial complex — quoting Sun Tzu and Eisenhower's farewell with the seriousness of a man who's had to use both.
Now, I'm just a simple man, but the arithmetic here is plain enough. In 2025, the Trump administration shut down the United States Agency for International Development. Elon Musk, as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, said he was "feeding USAID into the wood chipper." Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress, "No children are dying on my watch." They were…
2026-07-17 · 5 MIN READPete Hegseth is screening soldiers for testosterone while their communities eat cuts. The defense secretary announced Wednesday that the Department of Defense will test every soldier over thirty for testosterone deficiency. Annual health assessments will include hormone panels. Treatment, he said in a video posted to X, ensures service members have "the right testosterone…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READIsrael is occupying southern Lebanon and calling it a security buffer. Families can't go home. Workers can't get back to their shops. Villages sit empty because a U.S.-brokered "process" has no timetable and no end date. Now, I'm just a…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READThe Pentagon rehearsed a permanent war to justify permanent contracts. The Combined Joint Sustainment Training that kicked off this week in Pohang and Hongcheon fielded 4,400 troops, 600 pieces of equipment, naval vessels, aircraft, and…
2026-07-15 · 3 MIN READTrump is occupying the nation's capital with armed troops the city's elected government didn't ask for, didn't approve, and doesn't want. That is what is happening. The rest is performance. Nearly five thousand National Guard troops from…
2026-07-15 · 5 MIN READTrump is bombing Iranian cities and charging the world to ship oil. Third consecutive night. Six cities. Bushehr, Chabahar, Jask, Konarak, Abu Musa, Bandar Abbas. Five-hour bombardment on Monday. U.S. Central Command says the strikes are designed to "further degrade Iran's ability to attack commercial shipping." The president directed them personally. A cease-fire that had…
2026-07-14 · 5 MIN READThe Air Force One story tells you everything you need to know about what this taskforce is actually for. The New York Times reported that the new Qatari-gifted aircraft lacked the advanced defensive countermeasures of the old plane, forcing the president to fly home from Turkey on the old aircraft as a security precaution. The administration did not dispute the facts. It did…
2026-07-13 · 6 MIN READThe United States kidnapped a Sinaloa cartel boss in Mexico and lied to its president. A woman brought a truck in last week for brakes. She runs a cleaning service over in Dalton, employs six women, sends money home to her mother in…
2026-07-13 · 7 MIN READMy friend Ray welds airframe sections at the BAE plant in Warton. He has been there twenty-three years. Three weeks ago he showed me a picture on his phone of his daughter, who has just turned seventeen and wants to go to nursing school,…
2026-07-07 · 5 MIN READRaytheon is selling the 5% NATO deal back to Europe and calling it burden-sharing. I want to walk through this the way I walk a customer through an estimate, because that is the only way I know how to think about a deal. The announcement…
2026-07-07 · 9 MIN READTrump is bombing the Strait of Hormuz and calling it open. Twenty-one vessels crossed the strait on Tuesday, according to ship-tracker Kpler, down from a daily average of thirty last week. Of those twenty-one, not one used the route the…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration is breaking the Western alliance and calling it burden-sharing. I want to tell you what that costs. Not in NATO budgets or geopolitical analysis — in the life of the family down the road from my shop. A mother…
2026-07-06 · 4 MIN READ
The Trump State Department is broadcasting hostile-state propaganda against a NATO ally. Sarah Rogers, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, a desk created in 1999 to build institutional bridges, now used to burn them, stood in…
2026-06-26 · 7 MIN READThe Army is leasing sovereign land to private mining companies to process toxic minerals on base, bypassing the environmental oversight the rest of us live under. The Army has signed long-term leases with Titan Mining, EnergyX, Ioneer, and…
2026-06-25 · 5 MIN READPentagon blacklisted another round of Chinese tech firms this week, adding Alibaba, Baidu, and others to its list of companies with alleged Chinese military ties. Beijing fired back within hours: the commerce ministry placed ten U.S.…
2026-06-22 · 5 MIN READTrump and Hegseth are killing people on boats and calling it drug interdiction. The United States military attacked a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing three men. The Pentagon says they were narcoterrorists. It is…
2026-06-19 · 5 MIN READJD Vance went on “The View” Tuesday to sell a book. He came to promote “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” and when the panel pulled him into the Iran war he tried to steer the conversation back. “I’m here to sell books,” he said.…
2026-06-17 · 3 MIN READThe United States is starving North Korean civilians to death in the name of denuclearization. This past Friday, officials from Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo gathered in Tokyo for a routine trilateral meeting on North Korean affairs. They…
2026-06-13 · 4 MIN READChina kidnaps an American journalist and calls it national security. Min Zin's name didn't make the communiqué from the Trump-Xi summit last month. He is a Burmese-born U.S. citizen who fled one junta only to be swallowed by another…
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READStarmer and the Treasury are starving British troops while the geopolitical map fractures. John Healey just resigned as defence secretary, handing back the keys because he could no longer sign off on the arithmetic that British forces will…
2026-06-11 · 4 MIN READThe United States is killing Indian sailors and calling it a blockade. On Wednesday night, a U.S. aircraft fired precision munitions into the engine room of the Palau-flagged oil tanker M/T Settebello in the Gulf of Oman after the vessel,…
2026-06-11 · 4 MIN READTrump has destroyed the American alliance system. Not battered it, not strained it — demolished it in the operating theater where it matters most: the minds of the Europeans we used to call allies. A new European Council on Foreign…
2026-06-10 · 5 MIN READTrump and Putin are killing people and calling it strategy. The Wall Street Journal, surveying the wreckage of two great-power wars, concludes that the strong are learning they have limits. What the piece actually documents is something…
2026-06-10 · 6 MIN READTrump is killing people in the Persian Gulf and calling it a peace deal. The president stood at JFK airport on Monday night after watching the NBA Finals and told reporters that an Apache attack helicopter had crashed near the Strait of…
2026-06-09 · 6 MIN READPentagon officials are branding civilian companies as military adversaries to secure permanent defense funding. The Section 1260H registry, a Pentagon tracking list that formally marks foreign commercial entities as defense contributors,…
2026-06-09 · 4 MIN READGermany killed Europe's joint stealth fighter yesterday over a corporate turf war. Airbus and Dassault let it die. The Future Combat Air System was the only serious attempt by European nations to design and build a modern fighter together.…
2026-06-08 · 6 MIN READMoraff, Fan, and Katz did not stumble on a candidate. They selected him. They showed up at his house before dawn because the machine runs on a simple formula: find a combat veteran with a compelling biography, package him as an authentic…
2026-06-07 · 6 MIN READIsrael is murdering Lebanese army officers to scuttle the ceasefire it just agreed to. The airstrike that killed a brigadier general, a captain, and another soldier on a road near Nabatiyeh on Saturday was not an accident, not a tragic…
2026-06-06 · 6 MIN READTrump is committing war crimes in the Persian Gulf and calling it a blockade. On Friday, U.S. forces shot down four Iranian drones headed for the Strait, then struck coastal radar sites; Iran answered with seven ballistic missiles. That…
2026-06-06 · 7 MIN READThe transnational brokerage network that keeps Putin's war-gods airborne in Western-built Bombardiers and Gulfstreams is not a loophole. It is the system functioning precisely as designed. European aircraft managers acquire secondhand jets…
2026-06-06 · 4 MIN READTrump is building killing machines and calling it innovation. The memo that landed Friday — signed June 5, addressed to the secretaries of defense and homeland security, the attorney general, and the director of national intelligence —…
2026-06-05 · 6 MIN READTrump and Netanyahu are murdering civilians in Lebanon and Gaza to win their elections. The bombs dropped this week, the hospitals struck, the villages demolished—they are not tactical necessities. They are campaign ads written in blood.…
2026-06-05 · 6 MIN READTrump and Jackson are burning a hundred million dollars to re-brand the Pentagon as a war machine. During the House Armed Services Committee’s markup of the annual defense bill, Texas Republican Ronny Jackson held up a new Pentagon logo…
2026-06-05 · 6 MIN READTrump and Netanyahu are murdering Lebanese civilians and calling it a ceasefire. Delegations from Israel and Lebanon gathered in Washington Thursday to sign a renewal for a ceasefire that Israeli drone strikes shattered the same morning,…
2026-06-04 · 7 MIN READThe Trump administration is hemorrhaging taxpayer dollars to police empty city streets. The Niskanen Center just handed Congress a ledger, and the numbers are staggering: $1.5 million a day, every day, to float 2,800 armed National Guard…
2026-06-04 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration is threatening to bomb a two-hundred-year ally because it refuses to pick a side in a war Washington started. Not a rhetorical flourish. Not an exaggeration for effect. In last week’s cabinet meeting, the President…
2026-06-02 · 3 MIN READWashington is using cartel indictments to run Mexico and calling it cartel-fighting. The administration assembled the machinery last week: a federal indictment, a social-media lecture from the ambassador, and the assumption that Mexican…
2026-06-02 · 5 MIN READTrump and the Pentagon are kicking journalists out of the press office and calling it a SCIF. The Pentagon has redesignated its press office as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility—a spy-grade secure room that demands background…
2026-06-02 · 4 MIN READKeir Starmer sent a man tied to Epstein to Washington and hid the evidence. On Monday, the UK government releases a second tranche of documents detailing the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, as MSI…
2026-05-31 · 4 MIN READThe prime minister and his national security adviser installed an ambassador they knew was an Epstein risk and then called the process transparent. The first tranche of documents, forced into the open in March after Parliament used a…
2026-05-31 · 5 MIN READThe Trump administration is cutting civil lifelines to immigrants and calling it a policy review. The State Department has launched a blind-side assessment of Mexico’s 53 consulates in the United States, a network that serves as the…
2026-05-28 · 4 MIN READTrump and Hegseth are emptying the magazine in Iran and leaving the country exposed to China. They are killing people on boats, striking command centers, and burning through the nation's defensive stockpile as if the Pacific didn't exist.…
2026-05-27 · 6 MIN READThe United States abandoned Dang Van Phuoc after he lost his eye documenting its war. Phuoc died Saturday in Southern California at 91. He had been a combat photographer for the Associated Press in Vietnam from 1965 to 1975, and his…
2026-05-26 · 4 MIN READTrump and the Pentagon are sending American troops to die and killing Iranian civilians to manufacture a 'good deal'. The administration’s performance of diplomacy this week reads less like statecraft and more like the tightening of a…
2026-05-25 · 5 MIN READTrump kills American service members to buy a political victory. Three months into Operation Epic Fury, the war on Iran has drained twenty-nine billion dollars from U.S. taxpayers and taken the lives of thirteen American service members.…
2026-05-24 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump is selling a memorandum of understanding as though it were a surrender, using the pageantry of diplomacy to launder a war he started. These latest overtures—a flurry of calls and communiqués involving leaders from…
2026-05-24 · 9 MIN READThe Justice Department is deleting evidence of the Capitol assault to justify compensating insurrectionists. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and a dedicated rapid-response apparatus are methodically erasing the public documentation of…
2026-05-23 · 6 MIN READPete Hegseth is killing Ukrainians by sitting on the weapons Congress already bought. On Friday a bipartisan group of senators, led by Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley, wrote the defense secretary demanding he disburse $400 million in…
2026-05-23 · 6 MIN READTrump and Rubio are starving Iran to death. The United States, under presidential order, has blockaded Iranian ports for over a month, turning away 94 commercial vessels and disabling four others. Rubio, speaking to reporters, describes…
2026-05-23 · 3 MIN READTrump broke the WWII pact with Canada and left eight senators to clean up. The Pentagon announced it would pause U.S. participation in the joint defense board with Canada—the World War II-era body that coordinates North American defense.…
2026-05-23 · 4 MIN READTrump is using American soldiers as political poker chips to reward foreign loyalists and abandoning the alliance to chaos. This latest announcement—a promise to deploy 5,000 troops to Poland—drops via Truth Social, masking a net change of…
2026-05-21 · 3 MIN READTrump is shipping thousands of troops to Poland to keep the endless war machine running. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is running on fumes at a NATO meeting in Sweden, trying to convince European ministers that a sudden presidential…
2026-05-21 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration is bluffing NATO allies with staged troop rotations, turning the alliance’s foundational security guarantees into bargaining chips for an administration that treats deterrence as a ledger. Secretary of State Marco…
2026-05-21 · 5 MIN READTrump violated NATO promises and sent Rubio to demand more money. The troop announcement came earlier this month: five thousand U.S. troops would leave Europe, the president said, with deployments to Poland and Germany canceled. The…
2026-05-21 · 4 MIN READTrump and Rubio are selling a shell game to dismantle NATO’s shield. Marco Rubio travels to Helsingborg with the hollow ledger of burden-sharing, whispering reassurances about American reliability while the administration he represents…
2026-05-20 · 3 MIN READTrump and the Senate are executing mass slaughter in Iran and calling it foreign policy. The chamber’s fifty-to-forty-seven vote Tuesday to advance a war powers resolution—an ancient constitutional lever meant to strip unilateral executive…
2026-05-19 · 4 MIN READTrump and Blanche are buying political immunity and calling it anti-weaponization. The machinery of justice has been converted into a direct exchange. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has presided over the creation of an…
2026-05-19 · 4 MIN READDonald Trump is trading defense stocks that surge with every strike on Iran. A filing with the Office of Government Ethics, reported this week by the Associated Press and detailed by The Main Street Independent, documents more than 3,600…
2026-05-19 · 4 MIN READRubio and Trump are abandoning European security to send civilians to die. The itinerary reads like a diplomatic tour, but the underlying mechanics are a familiar pattern of strategic abandonment. Coverage has already documented the…
2026-05-19 · 4 MIN READSaturday's exchange of unacceptables — Tehran's response to a U.S. 14-point proposal, transmitted via Pakistani mediation, met with President Trump's "totally unacceptable" — is being read as a diplomatic setback. Andrew Bacevich, in The…
2026-05-11 · 3 MIN READ
