“I have not yet begun to fight!” Bonhomme Richard (Frigate) U.S. Navy Captain John Paul Jones Caption: A drawing of Bonhomme Richard, ex-Duc de Duras, 1779, by E. Tufnell (NH 72802) Duc de Duras, a French merchant vessel built in 1766 by the French East India Company (La Compagnie des Indes), spent …
Read More »DOD squirms: 500 more U.S. service members to be deployed to Europe
This time the Biden Warmonger and DOD Company have Wagged a more fed up Bear. Senator Lindsey Graham Obama/Biden took out Ghadaffi, attempted to take out Assad until Putin interfered. Bush took out Saddam. The consequences of those violations of International Law based on lies, with actions not taken as …
Read More »U.S. must take responsibility for another war to end Ukraine crisis
John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and Co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, assesses the causes of the present Ukraine crisis, the best way to end it, and its consequences for all of the main actors. …
Read More »The Republic of Texas, 10 years an Independent country
The Myth and Legend of David Crockett By 1835, Antonio López de Santa Anna had established himself as a dictator in Mexico. Among Anglo-American colonists and Tejanos alike, the call for Texas independence grew louder. On March 2, 1836, a delegation at Washington-on-the-Brazos adopted the Texas Declaration of Independence, and thus …
Read More »NATO: Response Force’s First Deployment
The NATO Response Force 500 French troops assembled in Istres in southern France before deploying to Romania. The first of many French forces have arrived in Romania as part of the NATO Response Force (NRF). The soldiers, part of the French Army’s Chasseurs alpins unit (“Alpine Hunters”) arrived at Mihail …
Read More »UPDATE: Australia Former SAS Soldier Accused of War Crimes in Civil Trial
This week, trials of SAS most decorated officer, Ben Roberts-Smith have continued. A former unnamed SAS soldier denies making up evidence that Ben Roberts-Smith expressed a desire to just “kill” or seeing photographs of dead insurgents on his iPod. The Soldiers were on their third tour in Afghanistan. The ex-special …
Read More »Saudi sticks with Russia on OPEC
During phone call with French Pres Macron, HRH Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed the situation in Ukraine & impact of the crisis on energy markets; HRH affirmed Kingdom’s keenness on stability & balance of oil markets & Kingdom’s commitment to the OPEC Plus agreement. Saudi/russia also have military agreements …
Read More »Veteran Ashli Babbitt’s mother: Killing was ‘Public Execution:” Officer cleared was a “whitewash?”
“There’s an investigative process [and] I was cleared by the DOJ [Department of Justice], and FBI and [the D.C.] Metropolitan Police,” he told NBC News, adding that the Capitol Police also cleared him of wrongdoing and decided not to discipline or demote him for the shooting. Fact is, U.S. Capitol …
Read More »DOD: Biden Orders halt of Border Barrier Construction
Some 2 Million illegal immigrants flooded the southern border according to Customs and Border Patrol. Amongst them are members of crime syndicates, human traffickers and terrorists. Americans are distracted as Biden very effectively once more Wagged the Dog, in instigating a new war behind the scenes to protect the Ukrainian …
Read More »DOD: Additional Military Assistance for Ukraine: The Resistance
Department of Defense Statement on Additional Military Assistance for Ukraine Yesterday, the President authorized an additional $350 million of military assistance from Department of Defense inventories, including anti-armor, small arms and various munitions, body armor, and related equipment in support of Ukraine’s front-line defenders facing down Russia’s unprovoked attack. DOD reporting …
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