Month: November 2025

Russia Does NOT Want You to Know the Truth About Their Nukes

Posted on by Lone Candle

Putin doesn’t want to use nuclear weapons. If he did, he risks the destruction of his country. Putin, like the Soviet Union in history, uses nuclear weapons as bluster to threaten countries whose leaders and people believe the likelihood of Russia using nukes is higher than it is. Trump is scared. He’s happy to use or threaten military force against countries without nukes, but Russia invades its neighbor in a war of conquest while committing many atrocities, and Trump is obsessed with peace, even, at times, weakening support to Ukraine to appease Putin. Letting Russia gain things with nuclear threats increases the incentive for other countries to get nukes, and one of those countries may be more willing to actually use them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUspOj8Ee0

Countering the Criminal Drone Threat in the Americas

Posted on by Lone Candle

Mexican cartels are using drones to drop bombs on rival cartels and police, and to intimidate civilians. Criminal organizations in many countries are using drones and have gotten good at using them in advanced ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBjCFd3Vosg

The End of the American Empire | The David Frum Show

Posted on by Lone Candle

On the international stage, the United States is acting like brash huns, its president receiving gifts of gold as countries complement him and shower him in gifts in hopes of corruption as they beseech Trump to lift tariffs. In the short term, the U.S. has higher taxes on goods they import and difficulty selling abroad where foreign countries tariff back and where tariffs on imports into the U.S. make U.S. goods more expensive. In the long term, the U.S. reputation is tarnished and countries may never trust the country again as the country already elected Trump twice, and may always elect another one in the future. A world where the United States can’t be trusted is a worse world for the United States and Americans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb_2J7-Es6g

Why Republicans are worried about Trump’s plans to split the Education Department

Posted on by Lone Candle

“The Trump administration announced Tuesday it would work to shutter the department by transferring critical responsibilities to other federal agencies. The plan revolves around a series of agreements that spread responsibility for administering tens of billions of dollars in school-related spending across the federal government.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/why-republicans-are-worried-about-trumps-plans-to-split-the-education-department-00658588