Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

January 9, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE:

Earlier:

Curiously, some of her fellow true believers to the cause are having trouble worshiping a fallen kamikaze:

Tweet continues: “It’s just like that soldier who set himself on fire for Gaza and then Leftists began tweeting about how their own followers ‘better not celebrate a white man who wore a uniform’. Never before has an ideology demanded total obedience and sacrifice to the point of offering up your own life while simultaneously treating its own adherents as subhuman. We are dealing with a level of psychological derangement that will bewilder future generations for as long as records of this era exist.”

 

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 9th, 2026

January 8, 2026

CHANGE:

Posted at 9:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 8th, 2026

AND NOW A THOUGHTFUL WORD FROM A PROMINENT ABC NEWS EMPLOYEE:

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 8th, 2026

GREAT MOMENTS IN LATE NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT:

That feminist agenda was so forward-looking that a decade ago, the New York Times was assuring its readers that the Soviet Union was basically one giant Playboy Mansion: Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism.

UPDATE: Jimmy Kimmel Turns ICE Shooting Into Anti-Trump Merch.

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 8th, 2026

IRAN:

Well, not entirely — there’s one American commentator the mullahs still love — and vice versa:

In response, Iowahawk dubs Tucker “the Bonnie Blue of the international America-hating nuclear terrorist supervillain community.”

Related:

 

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 8th, 2026

THIS WILL END WELL: Minnesota governor authorizes National Guard as protests erupt after fatal ICE shooting.

As Noah Rothman writes: Tim Walz Is a Reckless Menace.

“We’ve never been at war with our federal government,” the governor inexplicably declared. The implication in Walz’s use of the present perfect tense is that the condition he describes — “war with the federal government” — was not Minnesotans’ previous experience until now.

“We don’t see a desire to work with us on public safety,” Walz continued. “We hear a demonization of our state.” Indeed, “We do not need any further help from the federal government,” the governor added.

Though he emphasized the need for peaceful protest, Walz stressed that it is every Americans’ “patriotic duty” to “get out and protest and speak up to this administration” far beyond Minnesota’s borders. “If you’re in Portland, or you’re in L.A., or you’re in Chicago, or . . . wherever they’re coming next, stand with us — stand with us against this.” We are “not living in a normal world,” Walz mused. And yet, he pondered, perhaps this moment would catalyze a reversion to a more familiar status quo ante. “Maybe we’re at our McCarthy moment,” Walz speculated: “Do you have no decency?”

The famous quote from attorney Joseph Welch addressed to Senator Joseph McCarthy is, “Have you no decency, sir?” which has the inestimable advantage of being syntactically correct.

Also proven correct were McCarthy’s instincts, given Walz’s background. As I wrote in September of 2024 when Walz said “I’ll often have people tell me, ‘I’m really not that into politics.’ Well too damn bad – politics is into you!”, the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee got married on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre,  promoted a research facility that partners with China’s Wuhan lab, looked the other way when Minneapolis was being destroyed in 2020, and his wife loved the smell of burning businesses. And paraphrasing a quote regularly attributed to Leon Trotsky.

UPDATE:

Posted at 5:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 8th, 2026

ANALYSIS TRUE:

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 8th, 2026

JOHN CLEESE MORPHED INTO THEODORE DALRYMPLE SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: John Cleese tears into BBC over Iran bias row as actor fumes he’s ‘ashamed’ of broadcaster: ‘It doesn’t want to offend Islamists!’

In one of the most high-profile rows, the Israeli embassy publicly slammed the BBC over its reporting on the Iran protests, with embassy spokesman Alex Gandler claiming the broadcaster has maintained “near-total silence” on the demonstrations while devoting excessive attention to Gaza.

Iranian journalist Mani Barsharzad has added to the criticism, telling GB News that many Iranians perceive the BBC as biased in its coverage of the protests.

“There is a bias there because it doesn’t fit the narrative,” she said. “The narrative, which they want to say is ‘it is their own culture’. ‘If the Islamic Republic is oppressive, it’s because the people want that.’ But this is not the reality.”

Now, Mr Cleese has joined the critics. He took to X, where he reposted criticism of the broadcaster from the likes of Sharron Davies and Jake Wallis Simons, among others taking aim at the Beeb over the supposed lack of coverage from Iran.

But then, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, to coin a phrase:

Related: Coming Soon: The Iran Civil War of 2026?

(Classical reference in headline.)

UPDATE:

MORE:

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 8th, 2026

JAMES PIERESON: Socialism is a hate crime.

It is remarkable that, despite its long record of failure, socialism is now more popular than ever among college students and in progressive precincts of the Democratic Party, at least judging by the cult status of figures such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Now an avowed socialist has been elected mayor of New York, the commercial capital of the United States and home to that great capitalist institution, the stock market. Even more recently, socialists here and around the world have spoken out in unison against the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, the socialist dictator of Venezuela.

It is ironic that these socialists, along with their supporters and fellow travelers, like to censor conservatives for, allegedly, promoting “hate” and “division.” On that basis, they have banned conservative speakers from appearing on college campuses, and just a few years ago urged Twitter and Facebook to close the accounts of conservatives who spoke out against socialism.

This raises the question: given the historical record, why don’t we label socialism as a hate crime?

After all, the evidence for socialism’s malignant effects is obvious to anyone with sufficient curiosity to open a history book. Socialists are responsible for the murder, imprisonment, and torture of many millions and perhaps hundreds of millions of innocent people during the ideology’s heyday in the middle of the twentieth century. That history of murder and tyranny continues on a smaller scale today in the handful of countries living under the misfortune of socialism—Cuba, North Korea, and (most recently) Venezuela.

How do socialists escape the indictment that they are purveyors of tyranny and mass murder? Some of them deny that Stalin, Mao, and others were true socialists or, equally absurdly, assert that true socialism has never really been tried. But socialism has been tried many times in many places and has always failed.

Read the whole thing. As Tom Wolfe wrote in in his 1976 article, “The Intelligent Co-ed’s Guide to America,” Solzhenitsyn “said that not only Stalinism, not only Leninism, not only Communism—but socialism itself led to the concentration camps; and not only socialism, but Marxism; and not only Marxism but any ideology that sought to reorganize morality on an a priori basis. Sadder still, it was impossible to say that Soviet socialism was not ‘real socialism.’ On the contrary—it was socialism done by experts!”

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 8th, 2026

BEN SHAPIRO: How Trump Finally Buried the Iraq Syndrome.

To understand Iraq syndrome, one has to go back to Vietnam.

In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, America’s foreign-policy establishment fell into disarray. A new conventional wisdom took hold among elites: The war had not been lost because of bad strategy or domestic unrest but because it never should have been fought at all. From this conclusion flowed a much larger claim — that the United States needed to fundamentally rethink its role in the world.

This worldview, later known as the “Vietnam syndrome,” argued that America should abandon assertive foreign policy in favor of restraint or outright withdrawal, lest it stumble into further disasters. Underlying this posture was a thinly veiled anti-Americanism: the belief that the United States was not a force for good but a malign presence on the world stage. As former Princeton professor Richard Falk put it at the time, “I love the Vietnam syndrome because it was the proper redemptive path for American foreign policy to take after the Vietnam defeat.”

In other words, America was guilty — and the appropriate response was retreat.

That retreat carried real costs. A world without strong American leadership proved far worse than its critics anticipated. America’s self-imposed paralysis helped usher in the Cambodian genocide, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

By the mid-1980s, Ronald Reagan decided it was time to move past Vietnam syndrome. In 1983, the United States intervened in Grenada, deposing a Marxist government in a swift operation that cost few American lives and restored democracy to the island. Shortly thereafter, then-Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger articulated six criteria for military intervention: a vital interest at stake, a commitment to victory, clear political and military goals, continuous strategic reassessment, sustained public support, and the exhaustion of nonmilitary options.

Together, the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations applied these principles in Panama and during Operation Desert Storm. By 1989, Vietnam syndrome was effectively dead.

Then came Afghanistan and Iraq.

As Daniel Hannan wrote in 2014, “The greatest cultural victory of the Left has been to disregard the Nazi-Soviet Pact:”

To the modern reader, George Orwell’s depiction of how enmity alternates between Eurasia and Eastasia seems far-fetched; but when he published his great novel in 1948, such things were a recent memory. It suited Western Leftists, during and after the War, to argue that Hitler had been uniquely evil, certainly wickeder than Stalin. It was thus necessary to forget the enthusiasm with which the two tyrants had collaborated.

Back in the early 2000s, a similar pivot could be seen on the left’s 180-degree turn on the removal of Saddam Hussain. (George Clooney starred in a 1999 movie excoriating Bush #41 for failing to oust Saddam from power):

After (P)resident Biden set a $25 million bounty on Maduro’s head and after months of “No Kings” protests, the left once again pivoted on a dime over his ouster, including members of the (p)resident’s own administration: Kamala Harris Humiliates Herself Condemning Capture of Maduro.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 8th, 2026

January 7, 2026

CHECKING IN WITH THE THEATER KIDS: Mamdani’s Commie Housing Official Is a Lunatic.

Venture aloud that the new mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, might just have a touch of the communist about him, and you will run immediately into a wall of indignant pedantry. “He’s not a communist,” his apologists will insist. He’s a “communitarian.” Other preferred substitutions include “collectivist,” “Fabian,” “democratic socialist,” and, in the less intellectually inclined depths of the well, “just, like, someone who cares about other people.”

Whatever. A commie by any other name still smells as foul. Besides, far more important than whether Mamdani wishes to be more closely associated with the Judean People’s Front or the People’s Front of Judea is what he is actually doing with his power — and, alas, what Mamdani is actually doing with his power is appointing lunatics such as Cea Weaver to run the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants. Given that New York City has more people living in rented housing than any other American city has residents, this is a position from which a great deal of mischief can be made.

If Cea Weaver did not exist, one would be hard-pressed to invent her. Weaver seems to have been designed in a laboratory to work in the Ideological Compliance Department of the East German Kommunale Wohnungsverwaltung, but, as the result of an unfortunate accident with a time machine, ended up overseeing housing policy in the most important city in the United States.

That may be close to what happened to Weaver. According to the Daily Mail, in their article yesterday headlined, “Breathtaking hypocrisy of woke NYC mayoral aide who says whites owning homes is racist… as her $1.4m secret is revealed:”

New York City’s new renters’ tsar wasted no time in outraging locals by vowing to make life harder for whites in the Big Apple over their role in ‘racist gentrification.’

But Cea Weaver has kept strangely quiet about her own mother – a white professor who owns a gorgeous $1.4 million home in America’s fastest gentrifying city, where longtime black residents are quickly being priced out.

The hardline leftist’s mother Celia Applegate, a professor [of] German Studies at prestigious Vanderbilt University, resides at a pretty, roomy 1930s Craftsman home in one of Nashville’s leafiest neighborhoods.

Here’s the Webpage for Celia Applegate, Professor of German Studies at Vanderbilt:

The history of Germany in the 20th century is one of massive state-sanctioned property theft in both err, post-Weimar Germany, and the Soviet satellite state that succeeded it in East Germany. How much does Cea Weaver root for the Stasi when she pops The Lives of Others into the Blu-Ray player?

So what about dad? In a post headlined “Crybully: Mamdani’s Tenant Advocate Breaks Down When Confronted About Hypocrisy,” Ed Morrissey adds:

Sohrab Ahmari asks the right question:

Is Weaver mentally unstable? She certainly seems unprepared for the job, which is public-facing and substantial enough to deal with the media. Weaver was adept enough to scrub her social media after the election, but it turned out to be too late. Michelle Tandler kept a lot of receipts, which she posted in a lengthy thread on Monday. However, the first tweet has the right context for today’s events, given the “gentrifier” declaration she made in 2018:

Ed asks, “Was that aimed at her parents? Or was it just empty sloganeering from someone who never imagined that she would be held accountable for her public statements?”

It could be the former: Newsweek notes that “Weaver’s father, Stewart Weaver, was reported in 2023 to own a home in Rochester, according to real estate publication The Real Deal. At the time, a spokesperson for Housing Justice for All, an organization Cea Weaver worked for at the time, told the publication that Stewart Weaver ‘manages an additional rental property with a family member.’”

More on Weaver and her astonishing vocal fryyyyyyy from Megyn Kelly and Mark Helprin:

UPDATE:

To be fair, that’s a slightly less extreme aviation position than AOC, 2019’s New Socialist It Girl, who wanted to ban commercial flight entirely that year: The 10 Most Insane Requirements Of The Green New Deal. “Eliminate air travel. GND calls for building out ‘highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary.’ Good luck Hawaii! California’s high-speed boondoggle is already in $100 billion dollars of debt, and looks to be one of the state’s biggest fiscal disasters ever. Amtrak runs billions of dollars in the red (though, as we’ll see, trains that run on fossil fuels will also be phased out). Imagine growing that business model out to every state in America?”

Posted at 9:16 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 7th, 2026

SPRING FASCISM PREVIEW:

Indeed:

Come spring however, and as Jon Gabriel wrote in 2024: Welcome to protest season, where the cause changes but the tactics stay the same. “One year, statues are toppled and the next, Jews are bullied, but it’s amazing how the far-left treats such wildly diverse issues with the same small toolbox. It has ever been thus. As one radical wrote for a Students for a Democratic Society publication in the 1960s, ‘The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.’”

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 7th, 2026

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA: FireAid Funneled Cash to Podcasters, Illegals and Fungus Planting.

“Top Gun: Maverick” actor Miles Teller shared an emotional promise during last year’s FireAid benefit concert.

“All of the money raised will go directly to people who need it now.”

Early reports suggested that was hardly the case. Last September, The New York Post revealed that of the $100 million raised by musicians such as Joni Mitchell, Lady Gaga, John Mayer, Billie Joe Armstrong and more, some of the funds went to nonprofits with very little connection to fire safety or reparations.

Think:

  • The Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation
  • Podcasters discussing the wildfires
  • Sanitizing pre-schools
  • NAACP Pasadena
  • My Tribe Rise
  • The CA Native Vote Project
  • The Los Angeles Black Worker Center

Now, Rep. Jim Jordan has released a scathing update on the FireAid money matter.

The Ohio Republican’s assessment confirms that some of the money in question didn’t go directly to the victims of last year’s Palisades fire as promised.

Indeed:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 7th, 2026

BERLIN OUTAGE: The Consequence of Ignoring Leftist Extremism.

The German authorities knew for months that the capital’s power network was at risk of an attack by left-wing activists, because plans were laid out in a pamphlet published in August.

Yet as the weekend’s arson-induced outage—which plunged large parts of Berlin into darkness and left tens of thousands of residents without electricity amid freezing winter conditions—revealed, these same authorities simply were not prepared.

AfD co-leader Alice Weidel said this “blatant failure” was telling of “the politically motivated prioritisation” of the security authorities:

Instead of combating real threats, they target blameless citizens and the country’s largest opposition. With devastating consequences for our infrastructure and the safety of the people.

Separately, she pointed the finger at Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his coalition partners, saying “the CDU/SPD Senate bears the responsibility with its inaction” and warning that “the renewed left-terrorist attack on the power grid”—indeed, this was the second left-wing extremist attack on the city’s power infrastructure in just four months—“shows where the state’s downplaying of left-wing extremism leads.”

Can it get worse? It’s Germany – of course it can get worse: Thanks to Germany’s Insane Green Energy Laws, the Berlin Blackout Just Got More Dangerous.

Yesterday morning, we told you how a Leftist, Antifa-linked eco-activist group in Germany sent Berlin into a blackout during the freezing winter. The Vulkan Group published a letter taking responsibility for the terrorist attack on Berlin’s energy infrastructure, writing, “In the greed for energy, the earth is being depleted, sucked dry, burned, ravaged, burned down, raped, destroyed. The aim of the action is to cause significant damage to the gas industry and the greed for energy.”

It also said it was “cutting off power to those in power.” How harming innocent Berlin residents and businesses is harming those “in power” is beyond us, but the Left doesn’t care who they hurt in pursuit of their agenda.

And, thanks to Germany’s already insane “green” laws, the city is now at risk that its “eco-friendly” heat pumps might actually explode thanks to the terrorists.

Because much of the media subscribes to the notion of “no enemies on the left,” and are terrified of promoting any news that benefits the “far right” AfD, there’s been plenty of anti-journalism to bury the story, or at least the culprits:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 7th, 2026

HMMM: Trump’s capture of Russian oil tanker sets a perilous precedent.

The dramatic seizure of two Russian-linked oil tankers by American forces throws up complicated legal questions as well as the risk of reprisals, experts have warned.

The US Coast Guard on Wednesday swooped on two vessels it had been pursuing for weeks over alleged breaches of the naval blockade imposed on Venezuela.

The vessels – known as Bella 1 and M Sophia – are thought to be part of Moscow’s “shadow fleet” and are accused of flying false flags and carrying out sanctions-busting activities.

But they were seized in what Russia claimed were international waters, a controversial move that would raise complicated questions of international law, shipping industry insiders have said.

US and UK officials have claimed they acted lawfully.

US and UK officials, you say?

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 7th, 2026

COMMIE THEATER KID HAS THE SADZ: NYC mayoral aide Cea Weaver who says whites owning houses is racist bursts into TEARS when asked about her mother’s $1.4m Craftsman home.

A woke aide to New York City‘s new socialist mayor burst out crying when confronted over her assertion that it is racist for white people to own homes – despite her own mother owning a $1.4m Craftsman house.

Cea Weaver, who runs Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Office to Protect Tenants, was overcome with emotion when confronted outside her apartment in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning.

The 37-year-old began running down the street after seeing a Daily Mail reporter outside her home, then said ‘No’ through tears when asked if she wanted to comment on her professor mother Celia Appleton’s ownership of the $1.4 million property in fast-gentrifying Nashville.

Weaver appeared to be walking towards a nearby subway station, but then turned back and ran inside her home, which has a ‘Free Palestine‘ poster taped to one of its windows.

She was subsequently seen peering out the same window with the poster in it.

Weaver previously tweeted that ‘homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy’ and that ‘homeownership is racist’ in social media posts that also urged people to ‘impoverish the white middle class.’

In another Twitter missive from 2018, Weaver wrote: ‘There is no such thing as “good gentrifier,” only people who are actively working on projects to dismantle white supremacy and capitalism and people who aren’t.’

Weaver further called on people to ‘seize private property’ and called for the election of communist lawmakers.

I’m so old, I can remember when Communists were made of much sterner stuff than this:

On the other hand, given the path the DNC-MSM cleared for her boss last year, I can understand her confusion that there are now journalists asking questions about his staffers. Not to mention the massive cognitive dissonance that can occur the first time your worldview is called into question:

Also, perhaps the most terrifying concern of all is that the CIA’s cloning program is making considerable strides:

UPDATE: Mamdani Taps Prep School Socialists for Senior Press Roles.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 7th, 2026

BYRON YORK: Jack Smith reveals Jan. 6 committee charade.

Then, in June, [Cassidy] Hutchinson changed lawyers and offered the committee a really big story: On Jan. 6, she said, then-President Trump demanded that the Secret Service drive him to the Capitol, and when agents declined to do so, Trump physically attacked his own Secret Service detail in an effort to grab the wheel of the presidential limousine and point it toward the Capitol.

* * * * * * * *

Smith did not say that he had eliminated Hutchinson as a witness, but his words suggested that if he were trying to present a concise, compelling case to a jury, he would not include Hutchinson’s hearsay version of events. “If I were a defense attorney and Ms. Hutchinson were a witness, the first thing I would do was seek to preclude some of her testimony because it was hearsay,” Smith said.

With that, the final molecules of air leaked out of the Cassidy Hutchinson balloon. It is hard to remember today just how wildly agitated many in the press became when Hutchinson told her story, unchallenged, to the Jan. 6 committee. It’s an old saw that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can put on its shoes. That’s certainly what happened in this case. It would be months and years before the public learned about problems with Hutchinson’s testimony.

Now, from the improbable source of Jack Smith, we have the final word — not just on Hutchinson’s account, but on the misleading methods of the Jan. 6 committee.

Still though, maybe the real January 6th were the friends we made along the way: Technical Difficulties! Even the Democrats’ Own Video Feed Died From Their Performative J6 Cringe.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 7th, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE SOMALI PIRATES:

Exit question: “I’m going to ask again, does that make Minnesota stronger or weaker?”

UPDATE:

Here’s the article that Barry’s account linked to in 2023: ‘Transformational’ and also ‘bonkers:’ Minnesota Legislature ends its session of historic spending, policy changes.

“Transformational and bonkers” sums up Minneapolis quite well these days.

Posted at 12:55 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 7th, 2026

STEVE HAYWARD: Reagan, the Original MAGA President?

Reagan was an anti-establishment figure, deeply troubling to many Republicans, just like the current president. Rather than heap contempt on Reagan, serious students of politics ought to contemplate the parallels that made both men so unique and consequential. Reagan had a completely independent and unconventional mind and expressed his unconventional views fearlessly and usually with original language — that is, a vocabulary that didn’t use the regular Beltway terms that everyone else in politics used. In these traits, Trump and Reagan are very much alike. Trump’s tax cuts, both in his first term and last year, were influenced by some of the supply-side thinkers who helped craft Reagan’s tax cuts, and keep in mind that Reagan’s embrace of supply-side economics was a controversial departure from Republican orthodoxy of the era. Now it is the conventional GOP wisdom that Trump builds upon.

Trump and his team acknowledge considering the lessons of the Nixon years, and Trump himself has said Reagan was a great president (though he was “bad on trade,” a claim that may be contested). One might also wonder what Reagan might have accomplished if he had had two full terms to devote his skills solely to domestic policy rather than having to devote so much time and political capital to what turned out to be the climax of the Cold War.

A century ago, G.K. Chesterton observed that “The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” This proved accurate for most Republican administrations over the subsequent century. If the nation is restored to its intended constitutional boundaries, future historians will likely apportion credit to Reagan, Trump, and Trump’s successors, as it is certain that it will take several more elections and sustained efforts to fully reverse the administrative state. At the end of Reagan’s presidency, William F. Buckley Jr. wrote that the most powerful man in the world is not powerful enough to do everything that needs to be done. A good lesson to keep in mind, while taking seriously the wisdom to be acquired by studying those statesmen who came before, rather than haughtily dismissing them for not aligning with our present frame of mind.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 7th, 2026

WHAT THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE HAS WROUGHT:

 

Earlier: Marxism In The Metropolis: NYC’s New ‘Tenant Czar’ Has Targeted White Homeowners, Private Property.

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll on Jan 7th, 2026

WHAT WAS CHINA’S TAKEAWAY FROM OUR MISSION TO GRAB MADURO?

The lengthy tweet concludes:

Now I’m going to suggest that you juxtapose two phrases: “thermobaric bombs” and “Three Gorges Dam”. A China that’s naked from the air has the biggest glass jaw in human history.

Now I think there’s pretty good odds that the invasion of Taiwan will never happen at all.

In his 2004 book Dresden, historian Fredrick Taylor wrote that during WWII, the Allies dropped thousands of propaganda leaflets on the Nazi Reich that read, “Europe is a fortress. But it is a fortress without a roof.” The CCP may have reached a similar conclusion about Asia.

Posted at 7:15 am by Ed Driscoll on Jan 7th, 2026

January 6, 2026

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