Author Archena Posted on May 15, 2023May 15, 2023Categories Current, MondayTags , , , ,

Open Borders are Stupid for Everyone

I’m going to ignore the idiotic stuff about being anti-immigration and whatever kind of ‘ist’. If those are your best arguments, explain why you lock your doors at home. While you try to figure out an answer that doesn’t make you sound like the hypocrite we know you are, the rest of us will move on to real stuff. Immigration benefits the US like crazy. Uncontrolled immigration does not. Immigration is a detriment to most other countries. Uncontrolled immigration makes … Continue reading “Open Borders are Stupid for Everyone”

Author Archena Posted on May 10, 2023May 10, 2023Categories Current, WednesdayTags , , ,

Stop Pretending Everyone is Just Like Us

We’re constantly told that diversity is strength while being told we are too polarized. Seriously, does the Lamestream Media even listen to themselves anymore? Obviously, no one sane is listening to them but do they not notice how irrational and contradictory their rhetoric is? Diversity, like unity, can be a great tool and can also be destructive as all get out. What is so hard about moderation? Use the good parts of diversity – different points of view, new ideas … Continue reading “Stop Pretending Everyone is Just Like Us”

Author Archena Posted on May 1, 2023May 1, 2023Categories CurrentTags , , , , , , , ,

RINOs for Anheuser-Busch

Monday is normally foreign policy day at Quill Sword but we’re making kind of an exception today. Here’s the thing: the US is beyond the pale powerful and how well we govern our government directly impacts not just foreign relations but the daily lives of people around the world. It’s a huge responsibility and a civic duty. No one ever thinks their congressman is one of the bad ones. Half the time that’s true of the people who voted for … Continue reading “RINOs for Anheuser-Busch”

Author Archena Posted on April 25, 2023April 25, 2023Categories Current, MondayTags , , , ,

The Ukrainian Counteroffensive: Will They or Won’t They?

The single dumbest thing I can think of to do today is to guess what Ukraine’s military leaders have up their collective sleeves. Frankly, the options seem to me to be a lot wider open than what I’m hearing from military and political commentators. That’s not a dig at either the military experts or the political commentators, of which I’m one. The reality is that you can only analyze so much when half the cards are still in the deck. … Continue reading “The Ukrainian Counteroffensive: Will They or Won’t They?”

Author Archena Posted on April 17, 2023April 16, 2023Categories MondayTags , , , , ,

China Destroys Digital Fish

The President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-Wen met with Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy on April 5, 2023. The Chinese took it in stride by pitching a fit all over diplomatic channels and social media. Then they sulked for a few days. Once no one was lulled into any sense of security whatsoever, China unleased its military fury by pretending to blockade Taiwan and very politely staying out of the way of most maritime traffic. But just in case anyone … Continue reading “China Destroys Digital Fish”

Author Archena Posted on April 7, 2023April 7, 2023Categories Current, FridayTags , , , , , , , , , ,

Chicken Little Politics is not Finger Licking Good

Y’all remember that ‘Ok Boomer’ meme from a couple years back? Well, here’s you’re first grown up lesson as grown ups: careful who you mock because you will be on the receiving end eventually. Oh, we Boomers still love y’all and we do feel for you, but it is so incredibly funny watching Millennials and Zoomies freaking out and panicking because Russia decided to act like Russia and China still wants to rule the world. Actually, it’s hysterical. It’s almost … Continue reading “Chicken Little Politics is not Finger Licking Good”

Author Archena Posted on March 29, 2023March 27, 2023Categories Current, WednesdayTags , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Biden Who?

You know, that guy that stays in the White House occasionally and has a badly messed up kid? The guy 81 million people allegedly voted for after he hid in his basement during the campaign. Yeah, him. Is it just me or has Biden been amazingly unimportant? He managed to screw up Afghanistan, there is that. Oh, yeah, and there was, rather is, all that censorship and Orwellian disinformation board stuff. Trying to enact some sort of abortion law that … Continue reading “Biden Who?”

Author Archena Posted on March 27, 2023March 27, 2023Categories Current, MondayTags , , , , ,

NATO’s Back! And the World is More Complicated than Ever!

The world was always complex but being the biggest kid on the block means a lot of the block just avoids you. Not the best situation but it does simplify matters. Comes in handy when having to help sort out an entire planet but it also makes it pretty easy for us to be blindsided. I can remember in the Nineties being astonished that some Eastern European country was actually expecting Bob Dole, then candidate for president, to have an … Continue reading “NATO’s Back! And the World is More Complicated than Ever!”

Author Archena Posted on March 14, 2023March 14, 2023Categories Current, MondayTags , , , , ,

Why Russia Matters if China is the Enemy

Because everything is interrelated. There ya go, a college edumacation in one sentence. You know, these posts would be a lot shorter if y’all’d just figure out all the details. Okay, okay, here goes: Realists are wrong; the international game isn’t a single board with only a few main players. In reality (pun left in because it’s funny), international relations are twenty different games being played by two hundred players all at once and with a lot of pieces missing. … Continue reading “Why Russia Matters if China is the Enemy”

Author Archena Posted on March 6, 2023March 5, 2023Categories Current, MondayTags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Best Defense is a GREAT Offense

Castles are defensive, right? I mean the real ones, not the ones that only house princesses and occasional fairy tales. Hulking big fortifications designed to hide whole cities from the Big Bad Wolf at the door, right? Wrong. Castles are some of the nastiest machines ever invented. Yes, machines. Castles kill invaders. It’s what they are designed to do. Get too close and you get dead unless you are on very good terms with the occupants. Those massive walls are … Continue reading “The Best Defense is a GREAT Offense”