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Takeaways from 2023

Signs that MAGA is enmeshed in post-Vietnam War culture begin with its namesake. Make America Great Again is an adoption of Ronald Reagan’s assertion that it was “Morning in America Again,” - the country was moving on from its Vietnam War nightmare.

With rising global tensions, unsurprisingly the same old McCarthyite playbook is again being dusted off. We reject these smears.

“We need to have a grown-up conversation about what kind of system do we need, that will stop this ridiculous, outrageous harming that we're doing to ourselves and the planet.” - Gail Bradbrook

Crisis deepens, struggle rises in France and Israel/Palestine

Geostrategically located, with profitable natural resources, the Arctic is rapidly becoming a militarized zone of power politics in the new cold war, contested by the US and Europe, Russia and China.

Reader Comments: MAGA Threat; China Balloon - Is This Justification for a New Cold War; DeSantis Attack on Black Studies as Alternative to Trump; You Thought Facebook Couldn't Get Worse...Think Again; Cartoons; Announcements; more....

Until we have proven ourselves worthy to lead, we cannot expect others to march to our drum.

Regardless of the outcome in Ukraine—a Russian occupation of the eastern regions, an unending insurgency, or a Ukrainian victory—the European security order will continue along an East-West divide.

Are we heading for Cold War II, World War III, or possibly even World War IV (the climate destruction of this planet)? The author explores what it's meant for humanity to have taken from the gods the ability to create Armageddon.