Armas Weekend Reader
This week: Trump’s virtues, defending Taiwan, envisioning Russian defeat, Mexico at war with itself, China’s mistakes, don’t let Instagram dictate your vacations, the Army’s new tank, think twice about naval gunfire if you’re a Marine, and an homage to the Rooftop Koreans. Let’s go —
1) “Trump no doubt read my speech as an endorsement; it was not. It was an attempt to call attention to his underappreciated virtues outside the policy arena. Although Trump enacted many important policies, it was his personal virtues that inspired a movement—it is the ‘rest of him’ that revealed qualities which any Republican president will need, if he is to succeed in winning the war we are in.”
https://americanmind.org/salvo/a-phone-call-from-president-trump/
2) “What Kanye West said about Jews was disgraceful and indefensible. But to de-bank him for it? I would love to see a full roster of JP Morgan Chase's clients, to see what kind of moral monsters a million times more wicked than a mentally ill pop star with ugly opinions about Jews, or who broadcast messages a million times nastier than ‘White Lives Matter’ (which isn't nasty at all, but still), use their services without problems.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-regime-debanks-kanye-west/
3) “In war, nothing is inevitable and not much is predictable. But the war in Ukraine has a direction that observers can see and that we should name. What began as a criminal Russian aggression against Ukraine has become a proxy war between Washington and Moscow. The two sides are locked in an escalatory cycle that, along current trends, will eventually bring them into direct conflict and then go nuclear, killing millions of people and destroying much of the world.”
https://warontherocks.com/2022/10/the-end-of-the-world-is-nigh/
4) “Why is it worthwhile for Americans to defend Taiwan? In very concrete terms, what’s in it for us?”
https://time.com/6221072/why-protecting-taiwan-really-matters-to-the-u-s/
5) “I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms enshrined in our Constitution, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.”
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