"The state board that granted Roberts a license to serve as superintendent said that process included background checks by the state police and FBI." Crucially, none of the checks inquired into his immigration status.
Roberts didn't con his way into the Iowa School Board. They opened a backdoor for him. The moment he complied, he became beholden to the Board because they could send him to jail any time. Trouble was, he was exposed independently.
What scenes must be occurring in Gaza even now. In the days prior to the Battle of Manila the doomed Japanese garrison became like beasts in their last despair. Let me share some stories I heard from survivors.
The death of the Axis and neutral civilians. The German, Italian, Spanish and neutral European clergy, diplomats and civilians who fled to churches and embassies were systematically executed by the Japanese. The memorials are still there.
The massacre of the civilians. The Japanese burned out homes and bayoneted those who ran. Two of my aunts in a house near the ballpark fled past the troops losing one of their infant children to a thrust.
Grand strategy is largely about logistics and supply chains. Reshoring, lines of communication, production rates and human capital base are more significant than a snapshot of forces. The current admin seems to understand this a little more than the last.
The role of the Philippines is to make it hard for Chinese amphibious forces to simply grab the supply dumps. It will require a lot of men to take Luzon.
A shattered political landscape not just in the US, but in Europe and possibly Russia too. Only China looks unchanging but it is not ...
What happened in the West, I think, is that its consensus future -- open borders, one world, multiculturalism, the rule based system -- IOW the certitudes of 2000, have disappeared. Today we have a present but no future.
It died in 3 stages. First the Muslims didn't go along with it and we had the GWOT. Second in reaction the elites turned the consensus future into a Woke religion and the culturally Christian wouldn't go along with it and it sparked the global populist revolt.
"Sir Keir Starmer will declare the end of globalisation and admit it has failed the public amid the growing fallout of Donald Trump imposing global trade tariffs, including 10 per cent on the UK."
Trump's decision to go hell for leather may set off a Wild West stampede. Countries which stay on the RMS Globalization risk being left behind and going down with the ship. Starmer sees this and is forced to say: "it's every man for himself! Be British boys! Be British."
In game theory, a "breakout forces imitation" occurs when a successful strategy in a game becomes so prominent and advantageous that other players are compelled to adopt similar strategies, even if it's not their initially preferred approach.
A very curious thing has happened in the last decade. The "capitalist world" stands accused by the Western Left of the immoral act of abetting the actions of the world's Communist powers, China, Russia and even North Korea. Wait? So who are the "good guys"?
The "good guys" insofar as there are any, is anyone, Communist, Islamist or irredentist who is loser. Cuba, Venezuela, Hamas, Houthi, ANC etc; become righteous because they are poor and powerless whatever they aspire to be. The more they lose, the more righteous they become.
Conversely, whoever succeeds does so by virtue of crime. There is no such thing as an honest fortune. "Property is theft" and the wages of sin are fame and fortune. We live in a maltheistic universe where God exists, but is essentially evil.