Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

New at the Belmont Club. With everyone afraid with good reason of attempting regime change, is there a way of altering hostile state behavior incrementally? Is there a way of remodeling enemy nations instead of demolishing and rebuilding them?

New at PJMedia VIP. Facing the daunting problem of fanaticism and radicalization. How many historical failures have survived as ideals? The ideas smashed abroad leave seeds that can grow again — even in your own backyard.

New at the Belmont Club. Why France is so touchy about suggestions there’s a left wing “invisible government” behind recent political violence.

New at PJMedia VIP. The media reports that US allies are drifting closer to China. Is Beijing the wave of the future?

New at the Belmont Club. Are the EU and US even on the same side? What is the game? Who is on first?

New at PJMedia VIP. Even as the war in Ukraine goes on for longer than the Great Patriotic War, Putin remains quiet in the face of developments in Venezuela and Iran. Some might say, “too quiet”.

New at PJMedia VIP. When artificial personalities, like machine intelligence and ideologies, actually believe their projections are facts, they are said to hallucinate. Nothing can dissuade them the iceberg is not there except painful collision with reality.

Death stalks the former safe rear areas. “MOSCOW (AP) — A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third such killing of a senior military officer in just over a year. Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack.”

President Trump announces a future battleship class in the navy. “Battleship!!” is in ways a marketing strategy. It appears to fill a role formerly met by retiring USN cruisers, the “arsenal ship” and the DD-21 “Zumwalt” land attack destroyer.

New at the Belmont Club. In New South Wales the main police database was built when Windows 95 was new and Netscape Navigator was king. It failed to link up different suspicious facts about the Bondi Beach shooters. If the Nationals and Liberal parties want a good solid public policy alternative to the reflexive gun …

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New at the Belmont Club: The Bondi Beach massacre. It’s not just what happened, but what might happen next.

Four rushed the Bondi shooters, only one made it. A married couple about to celebrate their 35th anniversary and a 62 year old man didn’t quite.

The way in which people react to the defeat, death or misfortune of their foes is largely determined by who they are rather than what their enemies deserve. Should you gloat when a foe falls? You don’t have to be magnanimous, but you could be if you are. Shakespeare said it best:

New at PJMedia VIP. “The personal is political” principle means that all our failures, even our unhappiness, is somebody else’s fault. Everyone would be fulfilled but for the malignance of cruel devils we call Nazis who undermine all we do.

New at the Belmont Club. If people won’t take responsibility for their lives then ensure they get unlimited quantities of everything they should want whether they like it or not.

New at PJMedia VIP. Have you ever wondered why so many Gen-Z revolutions are breaking out in the 2020s? It’s no coincidence. Financial technology and computers have made corruption and crime in the 3rd World monstrously big.

New at the Belmont Club: the day of retrofitting the facts to the story, of “accurate but true” are over.

New at PJMedia VIP. All through human history from the first Neolithic raider to Willy Sutton the marauders have always gone where the loot is.

New at the Belmont Club. Is the last prophet Marx or Mohammed? This question will be postponed pending the defeat of MAGA.

New at PJMedia VIP. Massacre in Sudan: the tragedy of people living in a treasurehouse where the least valuable thing is lives.