There's no place in the modern godless world to admit error because we have abolished both contrition and redemption. Nothing left but to double down on Zero Covid, windmill power and the proposition that Romney's one shining moment never happened.

hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2…
"According to [moderns] it is morbid to confess your sins. I should say that the morbid thing is not to confess them. The morbid thing is to conceal your sins and let them eat your heart out, which is the happy state of most people in highly civilized communities"-- GK Chesterton
None of our 'leaders' can stop locking down Chinese cities, continuing failed invasions or printing money. There is nothing but to brazen it out. No one can say 'mea culpa, mea maxima culpa' because there is no 'ego te absolvo' in our pitiless atheist word.
One of the sources of modern political mischief is the fear of being caught contradicting something you said or did in the past, to the point where public figures scour their grade school yearbooks for embarassments. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: how could it be otherwise.
So the fact checkers will prove Obama always thought Russia was a threat. If you thought he told Romney otherwise, you misheard. Did you expect Obama to say he was wrong? Nobody says that any more.

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Apr 7
Germany's delegation at the U.N. General Assembly appeared to laugh during President Trump's speech when he suggested that Germany is becoming “totally dependent” upon Russian energy.

Who's laughing now?

washingtonpost.com/video/world/ge…
The past is past but there's no denying that mistakes were made.
Even Romney was right.
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Apr 2
The quesstion preoccupying pundits is what Putin does next. A limited offensive in Donbas? A new blitz in summer. Both Russia and the Ukr are retooling and resupplying based on their expectations. One should be careful because defeat is a better teacher than victory.
The hiatus is likely to shift things (comparatively) to the realm of unsettled strategy. What are Biden's goals? Maintaining NATO unity can hardly be an objective in itself. Is it regime change? Redrawing the world map into two camps? Or is it still Climate Change and Woke?
The wait is on for the Biden administration equivalent of Kennan's Long Telegram, or the Big Windmill as the case may be

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F.…
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Mar 31
The Chinese 'Mandate of Heaven' held that when rulers violated "the natural order and will of the universe" bad things happened. Those who believe "the will of the universe" is whatever we want aren't worried about legalized infanticide.

pjmedia.com/culture/markta…
If the "natural order and will of the universe" is only a superstition -- the laws of physics excepted -- then any negative subsequent events result only from 'bad luck' or mechanical mistakes in implementation not from the moral content thereof. It can be fixed by trying again.
But in reality moral content has practical effects, as on demographics for example. It's a kind of software with decisive physical results. As a result civilizational failure evokes concepts like the wrath of God because something like this effect is quite real.
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Mar 30
The most dismaying thing about Washington scandals is the growing suspicion that everyone in the city -- including the belated discoverers -- are in on it.

theweek.com/hunter-biden/1…
“May the Public not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?”

He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”

"If less than ten?"

"Then the only way to be sure is to politically nuke it from orbit."
Although there will be attempts to reform DC, Brussels, Beijing & Moscow from within, events will be driven by the forces of breakdown & renewal originating from social, technological & contingent developments, including expansion to outer space, autodidactism and subsidiarity.
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Mar 24
"Their strategy initially envisaged equipping a nascent Ukrainian insurgency... because Ukraine’s military has managed to keep Moscow’s forces at bay... the task has become equipping a regular army engaged in a large-scale conventional war."

wsj.com/articles/weapo…
Both Putin and Biden apparently expected Ukraine to collapse quickly and consequently both under-resourced their respective logistics. It wasn't just Putin who miscalculated.
It's sobering to realize the imbecilities we so gleefully discovered in Putin are shared by someone else.
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Mar 19
Recent events have proved how dangerous runaway governments still are. Once they go crazy it's the labor of years of braking to stop them.
Even after the fall of the USSR Russian kids were ritually taught to feel gratitude for the Red Army which won the Great Patriotic War begun in 1941, just as adherents of Mao learn that Chinese Communists really beat Japan. Everywhere the theme of gratitude to the state.
Laugh if you want at the Russian kids. But how many of us believe that public health indoor plumbing, international trade, the 40 hour week etc was a gift from the state, not bought and paid for 3X over by the individual human?
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