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Juneteenth: No, America's Wealth Wasn't Built By Slaves — Slavery Held Us Back
There's a reason the North wiped out the South: free men create, innovate and prosper, slavery freezes development in place. By 1861, the difference was…
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Midway: The Battle That Almost Lost World War II
Losing at Midway might well have meant losing both Europe and the Pacific. And we nearly did.
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Exposing The Trifecta of Evil | The Mom VIEW, with Rod Martin & Gabriela Blanco
Globalism, Islamism, and Communism are rival totalitarian systems. But right now, they're allied against us with one purpose: to destroy Christian…
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How World War II Might Have Been Lost But For the Doolittle Raid
The Indian Ocean and Suez were wide open to Japan. India, the British position at El Alamein and the entire Middle East were on the brink of being lost…
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Trump’s Hormuz Trap Snaps Shut
Iran thought it could extort the world. Instead, Trump is turning a closed Strait into leverage, rising U.S. energy exports, and a global reordering.
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The "Evils" of Capitalism
Capitalism’s critics cling to a mythic past, but the record shows the factory age ignited rising living standards, broader opportunity, and the modern…
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More Admirals Than Warships: The Slow Death of British Sea Power
An island nation that cannot reliably send a fleet to sea is not merely underarmed. It is living in strategic denial — and from the U.S. perspective…
Mar 25
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What If Trump Is In No Hurry to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz?
The real insurer of global trade is the U.S. Navy. The world is about to figure that out to its (and Lloyd’s) dismay.
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India Seizes Shadow Fleet Tankers — and BRICS Begins to Break
In an historic realignment, India quietly tilts toward America — and Moscow, Tehran, and Beijing feel the heat. The consequences could reshape the…
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Rubio: "The Old World Is Gone" - Address to the Munich Security Conference
In Munich, Secretary of State Marco Rubio buries the old order, defines the new era in geopolitics in which American allies must be true partners, not…
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Will China Turn the Moon Into Its Next South China Sea?
Beijing’s playbook for sovereignty is as bold as it is simple: claim big, build fast, dare the world to stop it. Now it means to take that strategy…
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Thanksgiving and Puritan Geopolitics in the Americas
Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay and the little-known colony of Providence Island in the Caribbean were part of a broader Puritan geopolitical strategy to…
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