America
Letter From Stafford
When people I meet ask where I’m from, I tell them Welsh and French by blood. English by schooling (failed Latin – no Greek), and Virginian by the Grace of God. Why not? Virginia was [more…]
War
20th Century
Inquest on Aachen
On 27 October, 1944 my uncle John Alldridge reported from Aaachen for the Manchester Evening News. Six days previously, Aachen had become the first German city to be captured by the Western Allies. – Jerry [more…]
Economics
Pipeline Sabotage and the Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
In the course of history there sometimes occurs events that are monumentally important yet were hardly noticed by much of the world at the time. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 went [more…]
America
China’s Machiavellian Virus
While the precise mechanisms resulting in the release of Covid 19 worldwide may never be publicly known, its deliberated impact on the developed economies of the West evoke all sorts of conspiratorial theories that generally [more…]
America
Rainy Island Goes To War
The following events either take place before the point we left our friends Bob and Fred in the previous Rainy Island story, or perhaps they occur in a multiverse where infinite outcomes are possible. In [more…]
Politics
Ukrainian War Eagles
Two War Eagles, Paula Dobriansky and Richard Levine, emphatically argue in today’s Wall Street Journal the reasons NATO (and therefore the U.S.) must wage an active direct proxy war against Russia: We cannot pretend a [more…]
Politics
Доверя́й, но проверя́й – Trust, but Verify
“Trust, but verify, is a well-known saying loved by Ronald Reagan, who was taught it by the writer Suzanne Massey. However, not many people are aware that it came into the English language directly from [more…]
Politics
The Rise of Russian Regional Hegemony
Would that Churchill be still among us A close friend with excellent credentials to discuss international politics and economics recently told me that with possible settlement talks starting between Russia and Ukraine it appears Ukraine [more…]
20th Century