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NATO Does Not Need the United States

Big Red Car — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:31:36 +0000

This new chap, Trump 2.0, has been critical of the United States’ involvement in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of which the United States was a founding member. His primary beef is that the non-US members are not doing their fair share. Is he right? Let us reason together, shall we? I will start with […]

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Peace In The Middle East?

Big Red Car — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 21:31:27 +0000

English Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain came home from a meeting with Hitler in Munich in September 1938 with the triumphant notion that he brought with him “peace for our times” in the form of some nonsensical agreement with a treacherous tyrant, Adolf Hitler. Very few men were able to realize that you cannot make peace […]

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National Security — The Catchall Slur Or Justification?

Big Red Car — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:43:27 +0000

We hear the term “national security” bandied about a lot, but what exactly does it mean at the boot top level? First, let’s be clear as to what the term “national security” is supposed to mean, shall we? For the purpose of our discussion, it is the protection of the United States from direct attack […]

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