It follows that if détente and peaceful coexistence never lasts, the focus and the strategy by default becomes one of “containment” and “deterrence” vis-à-vis Russian aggression and expansion. In turn, one can bank on a policy or strategy of deterrence only if the opposite side espouses “fear of the consequences” of aggression and expansion. As … Continue reading Conventional Deterrence
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Defining Strategic Rationality
I was told by a relative who served in the Afghan special forces before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 that the deep state will not relent until one relinquishes an open and independent mind for the ‘Cold War intellectualism’ or ‘NATO intellectualism’ which many intellectuals and scholars have critiqued and deconstructed. But … Continue reading Defining Strategic Rationality
Book Recommendation, November 16, 2025
“The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities” by John Mearsheimer. I’m surprised I didn’t recommend this book earlier. But better late than never. This book is more of an exercise in deconstruction than it is an exercise of a particular discourse, but that’s great nonetheless, given that deconstruction is the overarching theme of our … Continue reading Book Recommendation, November 16, 2025
Cracks in the Liberal Edifice
As we have contended all along, the liberal lie and illusion of money worship and brute global conquest set the stage for the populist mania and mendacity and the Marxist idealism and fervor which we are witnessing in our government and politics today. But aside from serving as a state ideology for all these years, … Continue reading Cracks in the Liberal Edifice
Seventeenth Note to “Jew Hater”
Pedantry and praxis. Instead of doing the job and fulfilling the mandate and taking all the lessons learned from four years of night school and applying them, the current administration decided to resort to games and tricks, and it backfired and failed dramatically and disastrously. But of course, the stage was set for all of … Continue reading Seventeenth Note to “Jew Hater”
Adam A. Azim 