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Dear Jake Broe, You Continue to Misread Trump vs. Ukraine
I need to level with you, Jake. Your read on Trump’s 50-day ultimatum , the drone deal, the Russian elite's unease, and the nuclear...
john raymond
Jul 17, 20253 min read


Dear Paul Warburg, Trump’s Goal Isn’t a Stalemate—It’s Putin’s Victory and His Own Coronation
Paul Warburg argues that recent shifts in U.S. arms policy represent a turning point for Ukraine, claiming that Donald Trump’s...
john raymond
Jul 16, 20252 min read


Dear Jake, I Told You the Senate Sanctions Package Was a Bluff. Now, I Am Telling You, NATO Procurement Is Going to Take Longer Than Three Months
Jake, let me start with a truth you already know but somehow never quite say: Donald Trump is not trying to win the war in Ukraine. He is...
john raymond
Jul 15, 20253 min read


Yes, MAGA Faithful, It Is Time—Past Time—To Burn Your Red Hats
You were lied to. Again. And you know it. You were promised justice, and you got spectacle. You were promised truth, and you got slogans....
john raymond
Jul 15, 20252 min read


Chapter 5, Section V: Strategic Blindness, Epistemic Collapse, and the Cost of Losing the Plot
The failure to understand the world as it is does not belong to the right alone. It infects even the educated liberal mind. In fact, it...
john raymond
Jul 15, 20254 min read


Chapter 5, Section IV. The Great Abstraction: Other Countries as Myths
The modern American does not live in the world. He lives in a highly edited story about the world, a curated narrative in which other...
john raymond
Jul 15, 20254 min read


In 2 Minutes and 16 Seconds, CBS News Shows Why No One Trusts the News Media Anymore
It doesn’t matter what side of the political aisle you land on — this much is now a widely accepted truth: people no longer trust the...
john raymond
Jul 15, 20252 min read


Today Was Not a Good Day for Ukraine—William Spaniel Got Played
On July 14, 2025, William Spaniel opened his video by asking if this was “the best day of the war this year for Ukraine.” What followed...
john raymond
Jul 14, 20254 min read


Chapter 5, Section III. The Harvard Civics Misfire
In 2025, Harvard launched a widely celebrated, free online civics course—an ambitious attempt to repair America’s battered democratic...
john raymond
Jul 14, 20254 min read


OBrien's Update 141 Proves He Understands Trump Better Than Most
I’m going to keep this short. OBrien’s Weekend Update #141 cuts through the noise better than almost any mainstream reporting to...
john raymond
Jul 13, 20252 min read


Dear Caolan Robertson, Asymmetric Warfare Does Not Reward Hope—It Punishes Wishful Thinking
Caolan Robertson’s recent interview , rich in sincerity and full of moral urgency, nonetheless reveals a profound misunderstanding of the...
john raymond
Jul 13, 20253 min read


Hotel Artemis: A Film So Bad, That By the Time Goldblum Appears, I Groaned Knowing He Could Not Save It
There are bad films, and then there are films that are so structurally confused, so dramatically inert, so devoid of pulse or point, that...
john raymond
Jul 12, 20253 min read


The Issues That William Spaniel Can’t Address: Trump Is More Than a Wildcard
William Spaniel’s latest video offers a well-produced, carefully structured overview of NATO’s evolving strategic position in the wake...
john raymond
Jul 12, 20253 min read


Go Woke, Go Broke? More Like, "Help Trump, Are a Rump"
For years now, the Right has loved to chant its empty little mantra— “Go woke, go broke” —as if it were an iron law of culture. The idea,...
john raymond
Jul 12, 20253 min read


Chapter 5, Section II. The Abstract Illiteracy of the American Public
The modern American mind has been trained to think in images. It sees tanks and assumes war. It sees a flag and assumes nationhood. It...
john raymond
Jul 12, 20254 min read


Chapter 5, Section I. We Don’t Know Where Iraq Is, and We Don’t Know What Russia Is
America is losing a global war—not for lack of weapons, but for lack of understanding. And the most damning evidence is this: We went to...
john raymond
Jul 12, 20253 min read


What Matters Is Not the Palace Intrigue Over Epstein: It Is That the Administration Is Attacking Us
The fight between Pam Bondi and Dan Bongino is not the story. It is the show. It is meant to distract, confuse, and deplete public...
john raymond
Jul 11, 20252 min read


Vlad Vexler Is Right: With Respect to Economics, Putin Still Has Cards to Play
Vlad Vexler is right . The Russian economy, after years of wartime improvisation, has exhausted its slack. The short-term growth that...
john raymond
Jul 11, 20254 min read


Paul Warburg Understands Regime Security, But Not the Full Threat to Putin Abandoning the War in Ukraine: The Vengeance Trap
Paul Warburg offers a cogent diagnosis of Vladimir Putin’s war psychology : a dictator trapped by his own refusal to accept failure,...
john raymond
Jul 10, 20254 min read


If You Think Trump Is Getting Played By Putin, or Is Changing His Mind on Putin or Russia, It Is You Who Are Getting Played
There’s a persistent and dangerous illusion circulating among certain Western commentators and officials—that Donald Trump is being...
john raymond
Jul 10, 20253 min read
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