This post was originally published on hereFinland’s president called for United Nations reforms on Wednesday in a speech to the General Assembly, requesting that veto power be stripped from Russia and China. Such a change is unlikely, but the speech highlighted the fundamental disharmony within this rowdy international body. It came the same week that…
This post was originally published on hereTrump saved TikTok, arranging yesterday for a consortium of American investors to buy 80 percent of the Chinese-owned and Chinese Communist Party-controlled social media platform. A 2024 law banned TikTok, starting this past January 17, and President Trump extended the deadline to December to finalize a deal, which would…
This post was originally published on here A federal grand jury in Virginia indicted former fbi Director James Comey yesterday on two felony counts. Attorney General Pam Bondi lauded the Justice Department’s “commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable,” while the media slammed it as “Trump’s revenge strike.” The charges relate to…
This post was originally published on hereYoung Americans are falling in love with socialism, according to a survey conducted for Yale University’s William F. Buckley Institute. Some 46 percent of 820 undergraduates surveyed at four-year colleges from September 5 to 14 agreed with the statement, “While socialist countries like Cuba and the Soviet Union have…
This post was originally published on here Space warfare is intensifying, and Germany needs to meet the moment, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told a space conference in Berlin yesterday. He cited the need to counter Russian spy satellites that are chasing German military satellites and announced plans to invest $41 billion in space defense over…
Why Putin rejects land for peace—a historic parallel
This post was originally published on here Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, former defense minister of Germany who suspended compulsory military service in 2011, now demands an imminent return to conscription. Guttenberg thinks the threat situation is too grave to allow for a one-year testing phase to see if enough volunteers can be found. In a podcast…
Charlie Kirk’s assassination has caused an American religious revival.
This post was originally published on hereA man in South Africa claimed God told him in a dream that “I will come to take my church” on September 23 and 24 this year. Clearly it was, as the Daily Mail headlined yesterday, a “doomsday false alarm.” But this wasn’t merely a miscounted date or a…
This post was originally published on hereDenmark closed two airports overnight following repeated drone incursions. Authorities noted that military installations were also affected. Denmark’s defense minister said, “There can be no doubt that everything points to this being the work of a professional actor when we are talking about such a systematic operation in so…