The Learning Diary

European nations are sabotaging America's effort to open the Kharg Island toll to free navigation.  I think they fear that if they take ...

  Astonishing statement from General Carsten Breuer, chief of the German defence staff. "Germany no longer regards the USA as a reliabl...

 Lingo for "We are waiting for the right moment". I think that this month-long war is going well. As planned, the war has messed u...

 The pirates of Barbary (Algeria) kidnapped and enslaved millions of Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries. Nothing was done; they paid t...

 Today, a missile was intercepted over my head, and pieces fell in the neighborhood. I don't know what this thing is; maybe it is part o...

The political consequences of low elite fertility among the Roman elites were highly unstable succession to the Roman throne and frequent in...

Syria's former and current ruling couple.  Western values are not winning.