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NATO's De Facto Expansion To The Caspian Sea Is Inevitable Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Russia still has time to propose Ukrainian-like security guarantees for averting another special operation... Politico recently published a piece about how "France and Turkey block NATO's drive to deepen ties with Caucasus countries", not because they're opposed to it in principle, but due to Turkiye blocking the renewal of Armenia's partnership plan after France declined to approve Azerbaijan's. France and Azerbaijan have long been at odds over Paris' support of Armenia, particularly in the context of...

America Spends More On Defense R&D Than Any Other OECD Country - By A Mile On the OECD's yardstick - defense R&D budget allocations per $1,000 of GDP - the United States spends $3.64. The next country on the list, South Korea, spends $2.06, and nobody else clears a dollar. Britain is third at $0.97, Germany fourth at $0.79, France fifth at $0.50. The average across the 20 countries ranked is $0.58; the median is $0.27. Greece, at the bottom, spends nine cents. The gap is about to get wider: the Department...

The Mullahs & The Lefty-Left Authored by James Howard Kunstler, "Until you are willing to harm the left more than they are willing to harm you, they will win. It’s really that simple." - Aimee Terese on X You’ll just have to stand by on whether this war with Iran is over or not, since the Shia true believers’ practice of Taqiyya is a permission structure for lying to infidels (us) when necessary — like, to advance global chaos that will bring the return of the Hidden Imam (Mahdi) to fill the world with justice, and...