It is hard to see how America can fail to be defeated in this tragi-comic war and very badly. Will it last years?

Glenn Diesen

"Trump is starting to resemble Yeltsin, but without the ability to blame the vodka."

Eric Kraus

"One of the wonderful things about Trump is that he has rendered even the most obtuse supporters of the Hegemon painfully aware of the dangers of the unipolar dominance model. The American body politic is unstable at best, delirious at worst - a country where one half the population expects the Rapture whilst the other half believes that gender is "assigned" at birth - is unlikely to be constrained by considerations of anything quite so banal as reality."

Horace Walpole

"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."

Carl Zha


"Iran is exporting oil to China at much greater volume than before the war while Venezuelan oil continues to flow to China. So much for Trump's 5D chess to choke off Chinese energy supply."

Aristotle

“The tyrant is also very ready to make war; for this keeps his subjects occupied and in continued need of a leader…[It is] characteristic of a tyrant’s policy…[that] the flatterer too is held in honor…those who keep him company in an obsequious spirit, which is the function of flattery. This makes tyranny favor the baser sort, in the sense that a tyrant loves to be flattered, and no man of free spirit will oblige him. Respectable men…refrain from flattery, and base men are useful for base deeds…Anyone who shows a rival pride and a spirit of freedom destroys the master-like character of the tyranny. Thus the tyrant hates such people as destroyers of his rule…All these and their like are marks of tyranny and ways of maintaining it; and they are utterly depraved.” (The Politics, Book V, Chapter XI)