Category: Global Politics

Trump forced a Gaza ceasefire with a “hold my beer” shrug, exposing the hollowness of our rules-based priesthood while Congress, gelded and drowsy, watched power act and then tried to explain it.

When Russian armor crossed the border and the drones began their ragged buzz over Kyiv, I learned that heartbreak and geopolitics break you in the same place, and the only answer was to hold the line long enough for principle to matter.

Trump rattled the saber then slid it back in the scabbard, as a disputed breach strains Gaza’s shaky ceasefire and one careless trigger pull could light the whole map.

With CIA covert ops greenlit and Night Stalker rotors skimming the Caribbean, Washington is squeezing Maduro’s lifelines the way a dockhand cinches a hawser, while drug routes slither through the Lesser Antilles like eels in an oil slick.

Treat the cache as a warning: the files hand the PLA both hardware and the playbook for an airborne crack at Taiwan, and when instructors, BMD-4M infantry fighting vehicles, and Dalnolyot long range parachute drops begin to surface, the smoke will have turned into a line of fire.

Two hundred American troops will sit at the edge of Gaza, acting like air traffic controllers for a fragile truce, keeping aid lanes open, logging every breach in real time, and pressing partners to fix problems before the rumor mill sparks fresh shooting.

Phase One feels like slapping a tourniquet on a two year hemorrhage, buying enough breath to get the hostages out, pull the troops back, and see if anyone is ready to run Gaza without the gunsmoke.

Two years after 7 October, the Middle East feels like riding around in the desert in a Humvee with a grenade with the pin half-pulled, grinding from Gaza to the Red Sea while diplomats in Cairo try to keep the spoon down and stop hostages, rockets, and headlines from detonating at once.

Facing Kaliningrad, Belarus, and a live war next door, Poland is pushing its F-16s to the Viper standard with APG-83 radar, Viper Shield, and standoff punch to hold the line while F-35s spin up.

Washington has crossed a legal Rubicon, labeling Caribbean cartels unlawful combatants and unleashing a wartime hunt at sea while Congress and rights groups sharpen their knives.

By wavering on Ukraine, slighting Zelensky, and shrinking from firm NATO leadership, the Trump team signaled to Putin that American resolve could be tested without consequence.

We won the battles in Afghanistan and still lost the war because Washington pursued an unsuitable, unfeasible, and unacceptable project to remake a tribal society while Congress abdicated and our generals saluted.