Archive - Beyond the Waste Land

Revving Russia's Red Lines

As Ukrainian defensive lines crack, hardliners in Ukraine, EU and US want to push Russia over the brink. They hope to launch an escalatory spiral that…

Sep 3 •

August 2024

Desperately Seeking NATO Intervention?

Ukraine is marooned in Russia's Kursk region's archipelago of attrition while Russia breaks through the Donbass impasse and into open operational space…

Aug 29 •

Chasing Squirrels in Kursk: Ukraine's Strategic ADHD

History as a grinding conflict of two brain typologies: primal Hunters with ADHD tendencies being slowly being replaced by autistic-leaning Farmers…

Aug 16 •

Second Battle of Kursk

Russia suffers its worst invasion since Nazi Germany stormed her borders in 1941 but neither the West nor Ukraine want to talk about it.

Aug 8 •

July 2024

Double Bind: Weaving Autocracy and Democracy

Destroying democracy to save democracy?

Jul 29 •

Global Order: From Maypole to Potato Patch

As the US unipolar order totters like a maypole without a foundation, how much longer can its elderly elite cling to power as a multinodal potato patch…

Jul 7 •

June 2024

Gender Daze: Just Say Sex

Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" demonstrates that sex's dual grounding in the natural and social realms gives it far greater conceptual power than…

Jun 28 •

Harmonizing the Trinity of Victory

Military strategy in Ukraine and Palestine through the lenses of two Prussian military geniuses: Carl von Clausewitz and Hans Delbrück.

Jun 6 •

May 2024

Legitimate Defense

Russia reopens the Kharkov front to stretch Kiev's defensive reserves and to fragment Kiev's ruling class cohesion in the wake of Zelensky's legitimacy…

May 19 •

Might and Wrong: A Botched Revolt?

Through the lenses of Thucydides and Nietzsche, after millennia of Western fetishization of victimhood, how does the US ruling class convince their…

May 4 •

April 2024

Father No's Best

Iran's performative strikes on Israel were choreographed with the US as an exercise in escalation management. "Israel's" flaccid response represents an…

Apr 19 •

Towards an EU Garrison State?

Provoked by Russian advances in Ukraine, can the EU transform from a weak and flabby state of indulgence into a society capable of mass weapons…

Apr 5 •

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