Category Archives: Foreign Policy

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World War III Watch: “Well boys, I reckon this is it. Nuclear combat toe-to-toe with the Russkies!”

The Snowball Summit was over quickly, and now President Trump is scheduled to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington on Monday. Then additional European leaders will join in the fun. From The New York Times:

European leaders are set to join Zelensky for Ukraine meeting with Trump.

by Constant MĂŠheut and Enjoli Liston | Sunday, August 17, 2025

European leaders said on Sunday that they would join President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine when he meets with President Trump on Monday at the White House, as they strive to show solidarity against Russia and avoid being sidelined in peace talks.

“Our goal tomorrow is to present a united front between Europeans and Ukrainians,” President Emmanuel Macron of France told reporters. “I don’t believe Putin wants peace. I believe he wants Ukraine’s capitulation.” Continue reading →

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World War III Watch: The left and the Neocons want the killing to continue in Ukraine

Our good friends on the left are just up in arms over President Trump’s meeting with Soviet Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in Alaska, ostensibly to discuss some way to end the Russo-Ukrainian War, which has been raging — well, maybe raging isn’t the right word; how about plodding along? — for 3½ years now. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Trudy Rubin, as much of a neocon as anyone working for the Inky can be, frets: Continue reading →

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The one tool Hamas have

Every once in a while, a ‘Palestinian’ ‘leader’ will do something really radical and tell the truth. It’s a very different thing, because, to paraphrase Mary McCarthy, “Every word they utter is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.” But sometimes the truth is so in-you-face obvious that it cannot be denied.

‘We have to reconsider our tools’: Terror chief Zubeidi laments that all Palestinian strategies have failed

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Thoughts on Nagasaki Day

Atomic bomb cloud over Nagasaki.

My mother served as a WAC — Women’s Army Corps — in General Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters in Tokyo during the Korean War, and she came to know the Japanese people, inasmuch as that was possible for a white woman who didn’t speak Japanese, in the early 1950s. She met and married my father there, so I’m pretty grateful for all of that; without the Korean War, I wouldn’t exist!

Mom didn’t really discuss her life in Tokyo that much. She was one of hundreds of WACs who typed up letters to the families of servicemen killed in action, and she did tell me that she could not refer to the “Korean War”, but only the “Korean conflict” or “Korean Police Action.”

But one point that she made several times was that we should not have used the atomic bomb. Rather, she said we should have detonated it in Tokyo Bay, a demonstration shot as it were, to show the Japanese what could happen to them if they didn’t surrender. The problem with that argument, though I didn’t make it at the time, was that we only had two atomic bombs at the time. What if it had failed? Continue reading →

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The Philadelphia Inquirer harbors illegal immigrants There is plenty of dignity in obeying the law; there is none in breaking it.

As we have previously noted, The Philadelphia Inquirer is very much on the side of the illegal immigrants. The good journolists[1]The spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their … Continue reading there, from the far-loeft Will Bunch to even the more moderate Daniel Pearson, the newspaper’s chief editorial writer, all want the illegals — at The First Street Journal we do not use the euphemism ‘undocumented’ — to be allowed to stay here.

But now they might have just fouled up:

‘The last thing that is protecting my dignity.’ A South Philly mother talks about life under sanctuary.

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↑1 The spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their objectivity. I use the term ‘journolism’ frequently when writing about media bias.
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If you are not calling on Hamas to surrender and release the hostages, your cries about people suffering in Gaza are worthless.

Armand Domalewski describes himself, in his Twitter biography, as a “Data scientist” living in San Francisco, and “Co-Founder, YIMBYs for Harris”. He’s actually followed by several real people I know, so perhaps he’s not an actual Palestinian bot, like so many of the other pro-Hamas posters on social media, but in this, he might as well be.

Mr Domalewski tweeted that the headline on the Babylon Bee satire site, “Gaza Said To Be Starving But Not ‘Release The Hostages’ Starving,” “is an evil, evil, evil headline”, But, even from a sarcasm site, it’s an accurate headline. The only thing that needs to happen for tons and tons of food and other aid to flow into Gaza is for Hamas to surrender and release the hostages. But the Palestinians and their useful idiots on social media would rather keep on fighting an unwinnable war. Continue reading →

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For the people of Gaza to receive any aid, they must repudiate Hamas and surrender Hamas leadership don't care about the people, because they're living in luxury in Qatar

The current ‘Palestinian’ sympathizer meme on Twitter — as always, I refuse to call it 𝕏, the absolute worst rebranding in history — is that the poor, poor Palestinian children, children! are starving. A gentleman calling himself Dr Mohammed al Najjar tweeted:

Doctors in Gaza collapse in operating rooms from hunger.
Ambulance drivers can’t drive, their stomachs empty.
A hungry doctor treats a hungry patient brought by a hungry driver.
To the free people of the world: Say ENOUGH to this starvation

It’s not just Dr Najjar — assuming he’s a real person and not just another pro-terrorist bot — but many others appearing in my feeds. Continue reading →

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Why should #Hamas surrender? The 'leadership' live in a well-fed, cushy exile while their people in Gaza can do nothing

Taher al Nunu, the new Hamas spokesfool, does not look as though he has been plagued by food insecurity.

When the Allies occupied Germany following World War II, and the United States occupied Japan, we insisted on, and forced, the de-Nazification of Germany, and the removal of the militarists who led Japan into the war. We required a cultural change which would lead to peaceful governments, governments which would not start wars of conquest.

And it has worked! Neither Germany nor Japan has tried to conquer anyone, at least not through war, though their economic power has expanded far beyond their borders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is insisting on the same thing when it comes to Gaza:

Netanyahu, leaving for DC: We’re working for Gaza deal on our terms, Hamas won’t be there; chance to greatly expand peace accords

By Lazar Berman | Sunday, July 6, 2025

Before boarding his flight to Washington, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel has an opportunity “to expand the circle of peace far beyond what we could have imagined.” Continue reading →

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Why do the left always root for the bad guys? When the left tell you who they are, believe them!

We have previously asked why the left always root for the bad guys, pointing out that “heroes” like Michael Brown, George Floyd, Freddie Gray, and Trayvon Martin were all bad guys, and noting how The Philadelphia Inquirer’s far-left columnist wants another bad guy, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, someone even he admitted is an “undocumented immigrant (who) was no angel.”

Now comes Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington state, one of the ‘squadristi‘, and she is just beside herself that the Trump Administration is deporting convicted criminals!

The Trump administration just dropped 8 immigrants — who they were previously holding in a shipping container in Djibouti — into war torn South Sudan.

Cruel. Inhumane. There aren’t words to describe how disgusting this is.

We’ll keep fighting.

My good friend William Teach reported on just what angels these eight deportees are, including this line:

They have been convicted of various crimes, with four of them convicted of murder, the Department of Homeland Security has said.

These are the guys for whom the distinguished gentlelady from Washington said, “We’ll keep fighting.”

When the left tell you who they are, believe them!