Author Archives: Holmes Oliver

Oh My

The administrators of the United States Government have done a lot of horrible stupid things in the past few years, but because they feel they might only have a few months of power remaining, they seem to be considering ultima … Continue reading

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How Big a Deal is 1991?

Political Science and International Law — don’t fall for either. They’re good for brief instances of argumentation. Are you stuck on the principled value of ‘Ukrainian sovereignty’ and on the consequence of that sovereign identity to Europe and European identity? … Continue reading

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Post-war Ukraine

Right now, it seems that the near-future combat front lines (as mapped by Suriyakmaps more-or-less?), where those lines will be four months from now (mid-Jan 2025), will trace the most likely future international border of Ukraine. This prediction assumes that … Continue reading

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Best Election Items Today

Eric Weinstein talking to the mediocre Piers Morgan — https://rumble.com/v5evlmz-eric-weinstein-to-piers-morgan-the-entire-political-charade-has-come-crashi.html — is succinct, insightful. This video is worth the ten minutes of your time. Also on the electoral front, Trump won the debate. The tsunami of memes has made that … Continue reading

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Attack on Truth Spells Attack on Trust

An article by Josh Stevens, “Trust in Doctors and Hospitals Plummets,” (https://brownstone.org/articles/trust-in-doctors-and-hospitals-plummets/) is a significant piece relating to the cultural part of the War for America. (tip to Citizen Free Press) A study by Dr. Roy H. Perlis, et al., … Continue reading

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The International Criminal Court also Sucks

The ICC is an embarrassing coffee clutch of silly sanctimonious lawfare minions. No trials, no equal protection, no way to sue for abuse of process. Selective-as-all-hell-prosecutions. It will be interesting to watch when the governments of Red China, Russia, the … Continue reading

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Clausewitz Suckz: Reason 7

All writing is a Rorschach blot to one degree or another. Less Rorschachiness is better for things like military strategy-making (that is, things with immediate material consequence). By Rorschachy, I mean a writing that is vague enough to allow the … Continue reading

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HOA and LoW

‘Willy OAM’ follows the Ukraine War.  Diligent, sincere, moral, a student of warfare. I wish he were not so abused by PoliSci and neocon thought. He likes to cite Clausewitz and Kissinger. He has also taken to making plaintive comments … Continue reading

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Ukraine and the Elections

The outcome of our November elections will influence the course of the war in eastern Europe, and the war will influence the outcome of our elections. I suspect that within the next six weeks, Russian advances and Ukrainian losses could … Continue reading

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Election Season

First Item: Julie Kelly says (Kamala Harris’ Likely Pick for Attorney General: Matthew Graves (declassified.live) that Kamala will likely pick Matthew Graves as her Attorney General; Second Item: Leading Democrat Kelley Robinson says people should “reimagine freedom and democracy beyond the … Continue reading

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