Ultimate Assets

One of the key aspects of sanctions is that, in order for them to be most effective, they are supposed to harm the target of the sanctions. And perhaps more importantly, they’re not supposed to harm people who aren’t the target of the sanctions. In the case of the most recent sanctions against Russia, the […]

Modern life is pretty amazing. We have the sum total of all human knowledge available at our fingertips, often in smartphones that we carry around in our pockets everywhere. We have food available on demand at grocery stores. We can buy clothes, medicine, tools, and everything we could possibly need at stores, and anything we […]

With the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, we’ve been treated to coverage by the Western media that is just one step shy of fawning. While the Taliban seems to be trying to take a conciliatory line towards Westerners still in the country, and has publicly stated that they want to allow all Western citizens still in […]

America’s future enemies are rubbing their hands with glee after seeing what has happened in Afghanistan. The speed at which the country collapsed, and the ineptitude of President Biden in responding to the taking of Kabul have made America the world’s laughingstock. Our allies are perplexed and hanging their heads in shame, while our enemies […]

One of the most disgusting aspects of the current withdrawal from Afghanistan is the seeming incompetence of our senior military and civilian leadership. They knew that Afghanistan would fall quickly, yet they continued to lie about it in public, as their egos would not allow them to admit that Afghanistan was a huge failure. They […]

After all the bluster emanating from Washington about the strength of the Afghan government, the capital city Kabul fell in about 90 hours, not the 90 days that had been expected just last week. The Afghan government’s military forces largely gave up and ran rather than fight the Taliban, while President Ashraf Ghani fled the […]