Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is ruled? (Count Oxiensterna)

An hour ago.

Retired Judge Andrew Napolitano: 'What are the 2,500 Marines going to do?'

Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson: 'Be killed.'

Can this be true? No. Surely Trump lives to be admired and to win.

Sohrab Ahmari in UnHerd: 

One almost wishes, however, that they had succeeded with DeSantis, who by all accounts is a competent crisis manager who has cooperated effectively with Sunshine State lawmakers to legislate his priorities. As president, DeSantis would have been an old-school, donor-beholden hawk. But we are getting the same thing with the second Trump administration, only with the chaos, messaging confusion, and sheer incompetence characteristic of the multiply-bankrupt ex-developer and reality-TV shouter.

If the United States was bound to waste $200 billion (the Pentagon’s latest ask from Congress) on another Mideast war radiating instability into Europe and beyond, would that it were under a commander in chief blessed with an orderly mind and advised by policy heavyweights instead of yes men. A president who wouldn’t be surprised by the Iranians lashing out at the Gulf — something they repeatedly threatened to do in case of attack. A president who wouldn’t suddenly beg European allies to join him in the adventure, then insult them when they declined. A president whose son-in-law wouldn’t shamelessly commingle diplomacy with the pursuit of profit.

Please click on the link about Jared Kushner receiving billions from Arab governments for his investment fund while conducting negotiations on behalf of President Trump.