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    The Last Stands of History
    • Apr 26
    • 4 min

    The Last Stands of History

    By Brendan Wilson In the film 300, the last stand of Leonidas is depicted in a scene of machismo and gratuitous violence. Gerard Butler,...
    Tsar Vlad's Roulette
    • Jan 30
    • 5 min

    Tsar Vlad's Roulette

    By Brendan Wilson In December, Russia marked the 30th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union by amassing 130,000 heavily...
    Biden's Saigon
    • Aug 26, 2021
    • 4 min

    Biden's Saigon

    "The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army." -President Joe Biden By Brendan Wilson “There’s going to be no circumstance where you...
    Taiwan Could Heat Up Our Cold War
    • Feb 27, 2021
    • 5 min

    Taiwan Could Heat Up Our Cold War

    By Brendan Wilson While the world dozed, Asia’s sleeping giant awoke and began closing the gap on American global supremacy. We now find...
    Has the United States become a Banana Republic?
    • Jan 9, 2021
    • 5 min

    Has the United States become a Banana Republic?

    No, it has not. By Brendan Wilson Since November, Donald Trump has responded to his electoral defeat with unsubstantiated accusations of...
    The Death of a Republic
    • Oct 4, 2020
    • 7 min

    The Death of a Republic

    “There once was an ancient city… The ancient city fell.”
    Trump is Not Mussolini
    • Sep 29, 2020
    • 6 min

    Trump is Not Mussolini

    But the Need for Such a Declaration is Telling
    Poison Tsar
    • Sep 18, 2020
    • 6 min

    Poison Tsar

    What Do Vladimir Putin and the Roman Emperor Nero Have in Common?
    Plague, Pestilence, and the Pandemics of History
    • Sep 5, 2020
    • 6 min

    Plague, Pestilence, and the Pandemics of History

    How Disease Has Changed Civilization By Brendan Wilson In the "before time", prior to January 2020, we lived secure, carefree lives.  Our...
    Cold War II
    • Aug 1, 2020
    • 6 min

    Cold War II

    Sino American Relations Turn Icy By Brendan Wilson On October 22, 1962, President John F Kennedy informed a stunned American public that...
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