The let-the-kids-fight-it-out phase of America’s Golden Age is amusing until the tyrant next door destroys your neighborhood with a missile.
The picture above was taken in Tel Aviv.
Below is a missing apartment block of a building in Solomiansky district. It was evaporated this morning in Russia’s latest air assault on Kyiv.
More than a dozen residents of the atomized apartment block are reported dead, according to rescue workers, who are searching through the rubble for survivors
Someone posted another video, this one of a Shahed drone smacking into the facade of a different residential building.
On what could have otherwise been a beautiful summer morning, the air in Kyiv was thick with acrid smoke and odors eminiscent of rotten eggs.
My favorite picture from the G7 summit in Kananaskis shows Georgia rolling her eyes as Donald bloviates about something.
The New York Post posted a video of the moment.
Donald left the beano early because the Middle East is blowing up. He did find time, however, to be stupid.
Actually, Russia was a full member of the G8 when it first invaded Ukraine, having joined the group in 1997. Russia held the G8 presidency and was scheduled to host the G8 summit in Sochi in June 2014.
Maybe Tulsi, Joe or Pete should inform Donald of this fact.
Yesterday Yaroslav compared Israel’s bombardment of Iran with Russia’s assaults on Ukraine.
Donald says he wants to stay out of both wars. That way Team USA can marshall its limited resources to meet challenges from China1.
Or so the story goes.
U.S. defense strategy must identify China unequivocally as the top priority for U.S. defense planning while modernizing and expanding the U.S. nuclear arsenal and sustaining an efficient and effective counterterrorism enterprise. U.S. allies must also step up, with some joining the United States in taking on China in Asia while others take more of a lead in dealing with threats from Russia in Europe, Iran, the Middle East, and North Korea. The reality is that achieving these goals will require more spending on defense, both by the United States and by its allies, as well as active support for reindustrialization and more support for allies’ productive capacity so that we can scale our freeworld efforts together. — Project 2025 (Mandate for Leadership, Heritage Foundation, 2024)