“Raising a host of a hundred thousand men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss on the people and a drain on the resources of the State. The daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces of silver. There will be commotion at home and abroad, and men will drop down exhausted on the … Continue reading Quote of the Day, February 5, 2023 →

In short, Beijing demonstrated its technological capabilities and prowess to the entire world by using only a small fraction of its power to do so, all while sneaking in a major intelligence and spying operation at the same time, which means Beijing hit two birds with one stone, while Washington now has to dig through … Continue reading The Lost Art of Intelligence →

Love is too young to know what conscience is,Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:For, thou betraying me, I do betrayMy nobler part to my gross body's treason;My soul doth tell my body that he mayTriumph in love; flesh … Continue reading Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Sonnets, Number 151 →

Also, rather than viewing this balloon incident as an “embarrassment” for China, one should perhaps view it as a strategic move on the part of Beijing in the sense that Beijing demonstrated its technological capabilities to the world while employing and revealing only a fraction of their true power to do so, whereas Americans and … Continue reading When China Rules the World →

One can perhaps go as far as contending that Washington would have preferred to keep the balloon hovering over American territory rather than shoot it down if it would have prolonged and augmented the window of opportunity to hack its motherboard. But despite the Chinese claims that this was a “scientific balloon” which went off … Continue reading The War to End All Wars →