The Post-Partisan Emporium

 A little sweet REVENGE?! I guess he quit!

   

American Weakness on Display in the Red Sea     The current American military force structure, size, and logistical pipeline do not easily support the maximalist goal of maintaining American hegemony as the “sole superpower.” By   Christopher Roach January 2, 2024   The United States used to be the undisputed international shot caller. Twenty years ago, we were number one economically and militarily. There were no real “peer competitors.” But lately, our power is in doubt. The United States has   deployed warships   to stop Yemen’s harassment of commercial shipping destined for Israel, as well as to prevent direct missile attacks on Israel itself. Yemen is a poor and   war-torn nation   hobbled by severe sanctions and a years-long bombing campaign by Saudi Arabia. The United States has provided the Saudis with weapons and logistical support since 2015. Remote, impoverished Yemen’s civil war concerns the United States because one of the belligerent...

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A standing ovation for a Nazi exposes unpleasant truths about the war in Ukraine   W estern cheerleaders for the war in Ukraine have sought to deny the complicated relationship between Ukrainian nationalism and   neo-Nazi groups , calling any discussion of a Nazi past or present in Ukraine a “Putin talking point.” But the truth can only be suppressed for so long, and it recently burst forth in what should have been a sleepy session of the Canadian Parliament. In the midst of introducing Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for yet another address to the House of Commons, Speaker Anthony Rota   recognized   98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka as a Ukrainian war hero for fighting the Soviet Union during World War II,   apparently unaware   that Hunka had volunteered for the Waffen-SS Galicia division, a Nazi military unit notorious for horrific war crimes. An entire roomful of MPs, along with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a fist-pumping Zelensky, rose ...