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Hegseth is trying to rhetorically enlist the enemies of fascism in the 1940s on the side of fascism today.
My Substack on Hegseth's offensive D-Day anniversary speech in which he trashed allies and immigrants.
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Good thing Trump loves inflation because he will see a lot more of it if he escalates the war with Iran.
JD Vance blames a UK killing on a “mass invasion of migrants.” Only one problem: the suspect, who is Sikh, was born and raised in the UK.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...
The best Trump can hope for is that Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz without tolls and accept limits on its nuclear program backed by international inspections. That would basically recreate the conditions that existed under Obama’s nuclear deal. wapo.st/4xc0tTy
This is likely to be the costliest TACO (the now famous acronym for Trump Always Chickens Out) that the president has ever bought. Let’s just hope this chastening experience will make him think twice before launching any more wars of choice. wapo.st/4xc0tTy
On May 23, Trump said a deal to end the war with Iran was almost finalized and would be “announced shortly.” Yet no deal has been unveiled. On Sunday, Iran fired ballistic missiles at Israel, and Israel hit back. So what happened? wapo.st/4xc0tTy
JD Vance blames a UK killing on a “mass invasion of migrants.” Only one problem: the suspect, who is Sikh, was born and raised in the UK. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...
The secretary of defense uses a D-Day speech to attack allies and immigrants
Trump made the war all but impossible to win by laying out maximalist demands--he called for Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER”--while using minimalist means. Air power alone is notoriously incapable of achieving regime change, and yet that’s what Trump foolishly tried to do in Iran. wapo.st/4xc0tTy
Trump made the war all but impossible to win by laying out maximalist demands--he called for Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER”--while using minimalist means. Air power alone is notoriously incapable of achieving regime change, and yet that’s what Trump foolishly tried to do in Iran. wapo.st/4xc0tTy
