"Now let them seek a delicate exit from the mess they’ve gotten themselves into — but we will achieve our objectives.”| imetatronink.substack.com
I don’t see any way the current trajectory of events doesn’t end in blood and ashes for a lot of American soldiers, sailors, and aviators.| imetatronink
Against the AGM-158 JASSM missile, has Russia's Kerch Strait Bridge finally met its match?| imetatronink
A medley of hymns I arranged and performed at my mother’s funeral back in 2022.| imetatronink
My summary assessment of the missile war over Israel during the 12-day-long first act of the ongoing war between Israel and Iran.| imetatronink
Those whose calculus of a US/Iran war has assumed overwhelming American air superiority will abruptly find the parameters of their equations altered.| imetatronink
The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox.| imetatronink
The bomber is NOT always going to get through. Several of them are going to end up in flaming debris on Iranian mountainsides.| imetatronink
I hope he's right, but I'm pretty certain he's wrong. And I hope we don’t find out for sure anytime soon.| imetatronink
You know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men. Nothing ever goes as planned. And I strongly suspect this next war of American redemption will not be a reversal of the prevailing trend.| imetatronink
If the US is foolish enough to start a big war against Iran, then 2025 is likely to demonstrate yet again that, combined with firepower, geography is the indomitable god of war.| imetatronink
In my view, the tirania elitei in vassal Romania is likely to see its grip on power become ever more slippery over the course of 2025 and beyond.| imetatronink
I disagree strongly with those who seek to exonerate the Trump 45 administration of culpability for the war in Ukraine.| imetatronink
The F-35 is destined to go down in military history as arguably the most ill-conceived, incompetently engineered, and combat-ineffectual large-scale production aircraft of the jet propulsion era.| imetatronink
In the end – and it will come sooner than later – the only thing that will not be soon forgotten is how briefly the American unipolar moment endured, and how shockingly and suddenly it all came crashing down.| imetatronink
If we would obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is this disobeying ourselves wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.| imetatronink
The chronically underestimated Yemeni remain the gatekeepers of the Bab-el-Mandeb.| imetatronink.substack.com
Ends of empire always attest complex and unpredictable events, and the trajectory is always from bad to worse.| imetatronink.substack.com
The rapid democratization of firepower has revolutionized the geopolitical and military dynamics of the world.| imetatronink.substack.com
To the extent Russia, China, and Iran are determined to act all for one and one for all, they represent a combination of global military and economic power that cannot be defeated.| imetatronink.substack.com
The rapidly eroding Anglo-American empire will now be compelled to swallow the bitter pill of decisive strategic defeat on the same eastern European steppes where its predecessors were served their own banquet of consequences.| imetatronink.substack.com
