Delicious NPR J6 propaganda—yum yum!
Not a peaceful protest pca.st/episode/a…
My Meshtastic Journey—So Far So Good chrisabraham.com/blog/my-m…
Revisiting the Maidan Massacre pocketcasts.com/podcast/m…
Trump’s international policy doesn’t threaten liberal democracy it only threatens “liberal democracy,” which is Trojan horse global cultural imperialism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/202…
Google Discover SEO: How Content Gets Found Before Anyone Searches for It chrisabraham.com/blog/goog…
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” — 1 Corinthians 13:11 (NIV translation)
“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” — Author C. S. Lewis
“Any man who is not a liberal at twenty has no heart; any man who is not a conservative at forty has no brain.” — Winston Churchill
In times like these, I hesitate to quote Lolita, but it’s hard not to notice the echo. Humbert Humbert constantly sneers at America: its pop culture, its teenagers, their mothers, its vulgarity and stupidity. That contempt isn’t incidental. It’s central to who he is.
Humbert’s posture is the familiar one of the displaced European aesthete: superior, wounded, endlessly scolding a society he depends on but despises. Nabokov makes that voice insufferable on purpose. Humbert isn’t meant to be a sage diagnosing American decline; he’s an unreliable narrator whose cultural disdain is part of his moral rot.
His endless sneering is one of the clues. We’re not supposed to agree with him. We’re supposed to recognize how intellectual contempt, when paired with self-mythologizing and grievance, becomes a way to excuse predation and cruelty. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/…
I don’t think this is the inverse at all. As long as Ukraine remained independent and non-aligned, the situation was tense but manageable. The real inflection point wasn’t Ukraine’s existence, it was Ukraine’s commitment to joining NATO.
The moment that commitment became credible, the clock started. From a realist perspective, NATO membership isn’t symbolic, it’s permanent. Once Ukraine entered that pipeline, Russia lost any future ability to maintain influence, leverage, or even a neutral relationship with Ukraine without confronting the entire NATO alliance.
That created a narrow window between political commitment and actual accession. After accession, Ukraine would no longer function as a buffer but as a fully protected military outpost, permanently closing the door on Russia’s strategic depth and its historical sphere of influence.
This isn’t a moral defense of invasion, but an explanation of incentives. Russian leaders across decades, going back to the George H. W. Bush era, consistently stated that NATO expansion into Ukraine was a red line. The West dismissed those warnings and treated NATO expansion as cost-free. From a realist lens, the war wasn’t caused by “fear of NATO invasion,” but by the certainty that NATO membership would foreclose all non-military options. Ukraine became the proxy arena where those unresolved security dilemmas finally collided.
I know this isn’t a popular take, but provocation doesn’t mean justification. It means understanding how great powers behave when buffer zones disappear. youtube.com/watch
If this is true what did Kimmel think would happen? If Trump is going to be taken down by the Epstein files he’s gonna take everybody with him—a napalming of reputations. So many Democrats as well.
Jimmy Kimmel gets so upset after Bill Clinton Epstein photos youtube.com/watch
Deportation Industrial Complex Goes Full DWOT youtube.com/watch
Deportation Industrial Complex Goes Full DWOT chrisabraham.substack.com/p/deporta…
Morality? That spirit hasn’t been here since 1969.
Trump Is Fulfilling Kissinger’s Dream www.theatlantic.com/culture/a…
In that case, don’t you think we should take all our toys and go home? Gladly. It’s this snotty behavior that will result in the USA pulling fully out of NATO and the UN. Fighting spite with spite. Good times.
Why would Greenland or any European nation wish to be part of that neoliberal shithole? www.europesays.com/2660167/
A ’90s liberal backed free speech, civil liberties, due process, and social tolerance without moral policing. In 2025, that same posture reads as “problematic.” Liberalism didn’t evolve. It sprinted into orthodoxy and left its skeptics behind.
Et tu Hunter? share.google/cLoaFilLI…
All this about Nick Fuentes is true. Kill Kirk, get Fuentes in his place. He’s too smart, too funny, too quick-witted, too heterodox, too shameless, and he’s a sacred cow genocider. Yikes, that kid. youtube.com/watch
All this about Nick Fuentes is true. Kill Kirk, get Fuentes in his place. He’s too smart, too funny, too quick-witted, too heterodox, too shameless, and he’s a sacred cow genocider. Yikes, that kid. youtube.com/watch
Has Russia lost 1,202,070 troops in Ukraine? www.europesays.com/uk/655523…