Declaring Victory - Vox Popoli - (Victory? Yes - if America can get its Zionist monkey off its back! - CL)

 Despite all of the claims of TACO and so forth, declaring victory and retreating from the Middle East would be the best possible outcome for the United States.....

https://voxday.net/2026/04/08/declaring-victory/ 

.....Is it a victory? Of course not, in the strategic sense. The war with Iran was unwinnable, just as was the case with Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Iraq. But it was objectively a comprehensive military victory on the battlefield for US forces, which has rather usefully served to point out the limitations of military power to the rabid Zionist imperialists who now have a much better grasp of the fact that their influence over the US government and its military guarantees them nothing in the Middle East or elsewhere, even if they haven’t accepted it.

Mark Levin is currently on air with shaking and crying over the ceasefire with Iran: “The people of Iran!! Are we going to just leave them there? There’s nothing we can do, and we’re going to wash our hands over that? That to me is morally very difficult to accept!”

Yes. Levin should be relieved, because if the USA was the Middle East morality police, invading Israel, ending the genocide, and liberating Gaza on behalf of the Palestinians would be its top priority, followed by ejecting the IDF from southern Lebanon.  Leaving the Middle East to its own devices would be a real victory for the American people, who have sufficient challenges of their own inside their own borders to resolve. So let’s hope the ceasefire between the USA and Iran holds, even if the one between Israel and Iran almost certainly won’t. This two-week ceasefire is a good sign, but it definitely doesn’t mean the war is over and AIPAC will be working overtime to try to overturn it.

Trump’s Iran War: Worse Than Expected, But Better Than Hoped? - Karen Kwiatkowski

 "Virtually every person I know, from my leftist comrades and colleagues to my MAGA high school classmates, is saying the same thing: they’re tired of Israel’s shit."

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/karen-kwiatkowski/trumps-iran-war-worse-than-expected-but-better-than-hoped/ 

DACost of Kissing Bibi's ASS—How The Donald Bombed Energy Consumers, Too - Stockman

 In any event, global crude oil was at $60 per barrel at the beginning of 2026 and the national average pump price stood at $2.75 per gallon, eliciting a noisy chorus of atta boys from MAGA-land.

No more. It’s a global market where pricing pressures transmit rapidly accross markets and among various related elements of the hydrocarbon supply system. With global crude oil above $100 per barrel the domestic gas pump price is now at $4.03 per gallon for one reason and one reason only: The Donald kissed Bibi Netanyahu’s ass and joined his war of aggression not only against Iran but the entire Persian Gulf supply system for no good reason of America’s Homeland Security whatsoever.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/david-stockman/the-market-law-of-one-price-how-the-donald-bombed-energy-consumers-too/ 

Christianity Is Right for Smart People, Too - LewRockwell

 Lewis and others mentioned by Murray provide more targeted guidance than most people we meet in person ever could. These gifted teachers can be gateways to richer lives. And to this distinguished group of literary companions, we can now add Charles Murray.

That is quite an achievement—especially for someone like Murray, who describes himself as having a deficit in perceiving spiritual realities. His experience suggests that with religion, as with cognitive therapy, when we change our thoughts, our feelings follow. The surest wellspring of faith may simply be to gain an increasingly true understanding of how God and Jesus have left their imprint on the hearts of those who came before us, then on those around us, and ultimately on us.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/james-anthony/christianity-is-right-for-smart-people-too/ 

Is Donald Trump Facing a Military Mutiny Over His Losing War with Iran?, by Ron Unz - The Unz Review

 In it, Wolff explained that the deep secret to understanding Trump was to recognize that he was a profoundly stupid man, so profoundly stupid that he never realized just how stupid he was. Since Trump never read nor understood almost anything, that explained the erratic, inconsistent, illogical nature of his statements and his behavior.

Given Trump’s uncouth stupidity, he sometimes said popular things that no other politician would dare to say. So his eager followers seized upon those, projecting unto him their fondest ideological hopes and aspirations while ignoring all his other ridiculous utterances.

Trump’s wealth and his bluster led most of those around him to assume otherwise, but the void between his ears was the deep mystery behind his behavior. Whenever he seemed lost in deep thought, he might simply be contemplating the next cheeseburger he planned to eat. Once we consider that possibility, his unfortunate presidency becomes much easier to comprehend, as well as the drastic changes between his first and second terms. Stupid people are obviously far easier to manipulate once you manage to surround them with your own confederates.

The reason that so many of Trump’s posts and actions seem like those of a low-IQ thug is that he essentially is a low-IQ thug.

https://www.unz.com/runz/is-donald-trump-facing-a-military-mutiny-over-his-losing-war-with-iran/ 

Does the following recent post seem to have been written by a world leader of reasonably high intelligence?

Unification is Coming - Vox Popoli - (And thanks to 'DaSynagogueApproved America and its satanic allies' for pointing out the DISGUSTING REALITY of its depravations! - CL)

 Taipei is going to reunify with the mainland sooner rather than later, and more peacefully than anyone expects, as the upcoming visit between Ms Cheng and President Xi may be more significant than anyone in the West suspects:

The leader of Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), is traveling to mainland China, marking the first such visit since 2016. Known as a vocal opponent of the island’s possible independence, Cheng Li-wun was invited by Chinese President Xi Jinping for what she has described as a peace-building mission.....

https://voxday.net/2026/04/07/unification-is-coming/ 

...Speaking to NBC News ahead of the visit, Cheng argued that “in Taiwan, we must do everything in our power to prevent a war in the Taiwan Strait,” adding that she does not want the island to “become the next Ukraine.”

The combination of a) the successful integration of Hong Kong, b) the Ukraine catastrophe, and c) the implosion of the US military means that the reunification of Taiwan island with the Chinese government is probably going to take place before 2030 and without military conflict.

Cheng is an attractive and popular figurehead for leading the reunification charge. The global appeal of “democracy” for its own sake has been destroyed by the fake democracies of Europe and the charade of elections everywhere from Arizona to Ukraine. Everyone understands that there is no point in voting when the vote is just a fig leaf for various elites to ignore the actual will of the people.

And the obvious difference between the decadent, invaded societies of the so-called “democratic” West and the progress of the homogenous so-called “autocratic” nations could not be more obvious. Most of the world doesn’t admire America or Europe anymore; the Japanese even have a word for the disappointment that Japanese tourists have upon seeing the cruel reality of modern Paris.

Long Before the Collapse, the Warnings Were Already There and No One Took Them Seriously - LewRockwell

 The Patterns They Kept Repeating

History Never Shouts. It Repeats in Whispers

Full text:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/no_author/long-before-the-collapse-the-warnings-were-already-there-and-no-one-took-them-seriously/