Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

New at the Belmont Club: The trial of a new ebola treatment in the Congo is a reminder that what is derided as Western civilization is useful more than sometimes.

New at PJMedia VIP. Hyphenated identities are out in China and so too might they be for the rest of the left-wing world.

New at the Belmont Club. There may be no going back to the past in the Strait of Hormuz but there is a future.

New at PJMedia VIP. For many creatures, including humans, tribalism has been the ultimate defense. People alone took the stranger into the fire to learn from him if they could. But it always remained a risky encounter that could easily go wrong. And it did in Belfast.

New at the Belmont Club. The throttling of the Islamic Republic is slow news but faster in actuality.

New at PJMedia VIP. The U.S. military said it is deploying “multidomain unmanned platforms” as part of ongoing operations connected with “Project Freedom” aimed at restoring freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. In plain English, this means it has deployed hundreds of robots that are now operating in the air, on the surface …

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New at the Belmont Club. Iran would be caught on the horns of a dilemma – the Horns of Hormuz as it were: to let the ships pass or by opposing them, give Donald Trump a 60-day renewable permit to pound the Islamic Republic into dust. Accepting either course would likely be fatal to the …

Continue reading “The Islamic Republic’s Choice”

New at PJMedia VIP. China estimates than Japan has enough plutonium to make 5,500 nuclear weapons. Iran has potentially less than 1% of that. Why does the world not worry about Japan?

New at the Belmont Club. Saying hello or goodbye to people you once knew as the man you used to be.

New at PJMedia VIP. Through history, events suggests that it’s not who wins battles, but who terrorizes the population that remains in control.

New at the Belmont Club. From decades of experience at fighting Israel, Iran’s Islamic Republic conceived of strategy to create a defense so deep, so redundant and decentralized that no decapitation or conventional attack could destroy it. They called it Defa-e Mozaiki, the Mosaic Defense.

New at PJMedia VIP. Why did Peter Thiel talk about the Antichrist in Rome? The optimists of the last century thought the future would bring them the answers only to learn that it brought even more puzzling questions.

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.”