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Concerns About North Korea Spread – HotAir

Wednesday I wrote about concerns raised by two North Korea experts that Kim Jong Un seemed to be preparing for war. As of today, that story has been picked up everywhere. Here’s the Washington Post: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this week declared South Korea to be an enemy state and formally abandoned the […]

Is North Korea Preparing for War? – HotAir

NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has a new column today highlighting something else to worry about. He points to a recent analysis of North Korea by two individuals with decades of expertise on the subject. Their names are Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker: I’ve seen many false alarms since I began covering and visiting North […]

‘We Will Not Look Backwards’ – HotAir

Taiwan just said no to “reunification” or you could argue that Taiwan just said yes to war. China has been making threats for weeks that this election was a vote between peace and war. Peace on China’s terms meant electing the Beijing-friendly KMT Party so that reunification with the mainland could be negotiated. War, according […]

‘Everyone Over There is a Terrorist’ – HotAir

An understandably bitter declaration, considering everything Mia Schem endured at the hands of Hamas — and its collaborators in Gaza. In Schem’s recounting of her weeks in captivity after her kidnapping on October 7, the terrorism goes well beyond the formal ranks of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Schem, whose cause became an international story […]

Ukraine Must Give Up Territory to End War – HotAir

It can be simultaneously true that Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression is just and that Ukraine will not be able to achieve the objective of completely beating back Russian advances into its territory. The Biden Administration seems to be slowly realizing that the hard realities on the ground will likely prevent the long arc of […]

The Latest Billionaire Bails on Harvard – HotAir

In case you’ve never heard of Len Blavatnik (more properly, Sir Leonard Valentinovich Blavatnik), he is a Ukrainian-born businessman and a noted philanthropist. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his philanthropy work in 2017. He is also Jewish. When his family emigrated to the United States in 1978, he studied engineering at Columbia […]

Zamestim | The Oligarch Kings

By now I am sure you know of my fondness for public statuary and civic embellishments that adorn cities. They give an insight to the soul, if not of everyone in society at least those with power. The zeitgeist of the time if you will. The above is a fresh piece of art in a […]

I Am The Very Model Of A Russian Major General

To Valery Gerasimov et al may they rot in hell I am the very model of a Russian Major GeneralMy standing in the battlefield in growing quite untenable My forces, though equipped and given orders unequivocal Did not expect the fight to be remotely this reciprocal. I used to have a tank brigade but now […]