Armas Weekend Reader
Administrative note: the Weekend Reader will go on brief hiatus, and return for the weekend of 16-17 July 2022.
This week: Biden 2024, DeSantis 2024, NASA losing the moon again, the end of everything, the cruelty of Russia’s war, American military aviation unreadiness, naval-mine warfare versus China, Kate Bush, the last Habsburgs, and more. Let’s go —
1) “America’s long-running foreign policy debate between isolationists and internationalists looks set to reemerge in full force in the decade to come. Though the divide between these two world views doesn’t necessarily fall along partisan or domestic ideological lines, it’s likely that the Republican Party will go down an increasingly isolationist path – no matter who wins the party’s presidential nomination in 2024.”
2) “Our cold civil war is heating up and has spilled over into nearly every aspect of life. A momentous commercial-cultural shift is now underway that will force us to reexamine our fundamental assumptions. This shift will soon become the most significant change in America in living memory. The geographic, digital, and financial movement of millions of people and billions of dollars out from under the control of woke states, woke digital technology, and woke corporations and capital has begun. And it is now the duty of all those who wish to stop the decline of our nation to join it.”
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-way-forward/
3) “The ongoing border crisis has transformed illegal immigration into an industrial-scale international smuggling black market.”
4) “Cuellar had repeatedly declared victory, starting on election night, and dismissed the notion that a recount would change the outcome. His race against Cisneros was full of drama. The FBI raided his Laredo home during the primary. Then during the runoff, Politico published a leaked draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court indicating a majority of justices could be willing to overturn Roe v. Wade, drawing more attention than ever to Cuellar’s opposition to abortion.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/21/henry-cuellar-jessica-cisneros-south-texas-congress/
5) “Democratic insiders in Washington and key primary states expect President Biden to follow through on his intention to stand for re-election and appear to have little appetite for casting him aside, though they expressed concerns about his advanced age and persistently low poll numbers.”
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