The prime of Cormac McCarthy’s career was devoted to applying Spengler to the U.S.A. Also, Blood Meridian is the story of the rebirth of the Aryans in the New World. I will have 5k words on this soon for anyone interested.
Since Algeria is in the news, it’s a good time to remind people that Jay Lovestone pimped out white women to African UN delegates to fix UN voting related to Algerian decolonization.
@warstrike88 Within 24hrs of each other @Littoria14 and John Podhoretz both praised Goodfellas and referenced appeasement of pre-nuclear North Korea on their respective podcasts. Interesting.
We have gone from 'we will open the strait' to 'you must help us open the strait' to 'we don't need your help to open the strait,' to 'you need to get your own oil from the strait,' to 'we are going to just fucking blockade the fucking strait ourselves.'
New Guinea was a terrible experience for the Japanese: besides the heat & constant rain, severed supply lines left them starving and turning to cannibalism.
But Ogawa Masatsugu, who fought there for three years, recalls evenings spent dancing under moonlight with the natives.
@jlippincott Van Creveld wrote a lot of good copy during the GWOT.
One of the few sane Israelis… he spoke against confrontation with Iran not from a leftist humanitarian POV, but from a Realpolitik strategic perspective. I fear there’s nobody in Bibi’s govt with such a rational stance.
We are not dealing with the imperial Japanese but the same principle remains: even if they are working their way towards surrender, don't fucking let up until they are @ the table signing the papers.
Richard Posner used to describe himself as a Nietzschean. He wasn’t, but he did rule that you can wear a shirt that says “Be Happy, Not Gay” to school.
@CityBureaucrat Richard Posner used to describe himself as a Nietzschean. He wasn’t, but he did rule that you can wear a shirt that says “Be Happy, Not Gay” to school.
@BiblicalBeauty@JeremyDBoreing@SethDillon He admits he’s losing to a schizophrenic black woman who can’t pronounce “architecture” and an alleged nocturnal demon attack victim. You know he’s losing.
In 1959, a search party looking for Hiroo Onoda in the Philippines left behind Japanese newspapers for him to find. Onoda, a second lieutenant in Japan’s Imperial Army who refused to believe WW2 had ended, describes his reaction to reading about life in Japan:
Anyone could have seen this very high risk/no-American-reward shitshow coming. How a war with Iran would play out has been among the foremost military topics for years now, and recent developments made it more risky
Yet ppl who are always wrong call us “retards”