This week: ruling elites don’t want Trump back, Americans don’t want to join the military, Chinese aggression versus Taiwan, fate and friendships, Korean adoptees in the kitchen, tiger attack on a garden party, how to land a plane, and more. Let’s go —
1) “The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again.”
https://compactmag.com/article/they-can-t-let-him-back-in
2) “Is the U.S. prepared for battle? By one measure, military recruitment, the answer appears to be no. Nearly every branch has struggled to meet its recruitment goals for 2022, with some falling as short as 40%. Worse yet, only about a quarter of America’s youth meet current eligibility standards—and recent surveys show only 9% are even interested … [What] explains the shift? Perhaps one answer lies in the Pentagon’s wholesale embrace of woke politics.”
3) “The U.S. Army has met only 40 percent of its 2022 recruiting goals. In fact, all branches of the military are facing historic resistance to their current recruiting efforts. If some solution is not found quickly, the armed forces will radically shrink or be forced to lower standards—or both.”
https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/24/how-to-erode-the-worlds-greatest-military/
4) “Then came Donald Trump. He campaigned in 2016 as a right-wing populist, neither libertarian nor technocratic and certainly not what Bush Republicans would consider ‘compassionate.’ Unlike Bush and the neoconservatives, who went to great lengths to brand themselves as faithful successors to Ronald Reagan, Trump cared little for the appearance of continuity. Conservative intellectual orthodoxy no longer mattered, so a number of politically unorthodox thinkers began to make arguments for a new right. Yoram Hazony was one of them.”
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/08/the-right-right
5) “I’ve been told that I’m the only person still living who worked closely with William F. Buckley, Jr., in his prime. A firsthand account might be useful.”
https://spectator.org/the-buckley-legacy-now-its-controversial-on-the-right/
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