The Post-Partisan Emporium

  An Assembly of Generals Karen Kwiatkowski It’s rare in peacetime, a meeting of  all your flag officers in one place  – and even more rare when a country is at war. The first question we must ask our generals and admirals, and our brand spanking new Secretary of War, is “Are we at war?” This question – frankly pertinent and simultaneously impertinent – would stymie our American generals and those who lead them into harm’s way, and more commonly, down dead end streets,  over the cliffs of insanity, and into fire swamps . Like former President Joe Biden, they Simply. Don’t. Know. Obviously, this one question needs to be answered, and constitutionally explained by the Secretary of “War.” It’s the least we can ask of the young man. Then, I would imagine that, given Secretary Hegseth is the MAGA man in the Pentagon, he will give the following short speech. Thank you all for coming. I hope you packed your sh!%. Putting America First means change for the Pentagon. Some of ...

  Europe's idiocracy goes to the dark side Led by the captains of the banking industry Europe goes back to 1930s Alex Krainer Back in 2022, Ukraine’s President  Zelensky  posed for a photo shoot wearing an olive green t-shirt emblazoned with a bizarre design that read, “Come to the dark side … Dominate or Die.” At the time, I wondered who thought it appropriate to even come up with such slogans, let alone have Ukraine’s president wear it on his chest. The photoshoot was arranged by a British PR team. At the time, a short documentary report about this was published in social media ( here’s a YouTube clip ). Who thought this up? Dennis Small ,  an editor at the  Executive Intelligence Review , commented as follows: “Let’s remember, Zelensky is an actor … he’s being given lines to read. The people providing those lines to Mr. Zelensky are two public relations (PR) firms in London who are working with Ukrainians to craft the message coming from Zelensky, which is la...