“A belligerent, corrupt dictatorship such as the CCP is most dangerous when it is dying,” Marc Thiessen observed in the aftermath of this mostly uneventful summit. China’s birthrate is far below replacement and is the lowest in the developed world. It will soon have too few workers to support its retired and elderly, he reports. [...]
With the remnants of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the US is attempting to negotiate with groups of pre-medievalist Muslim zealots, the armed fragments of the Iranian regime, each vying to take control of a million-man army and a nearly unimaginable treasure valued at tens of billions of dollars deposited in domestic and foreign [...]
Vol 5.3.26 As the summit in Beijing approaches, it is important to note that the prosecution of the war in Iran by America and Israel has exposed a vulnerability in the Chinese military. The inferiority of the Chinese anti-aircraft systems employed by Iran was on full display as they were immediately destroyed last August [...]
Freedom Chronicles, Vol. 4.20.26 Iran is the last remaining state following Mohammad’s command to conquer the infidel. In that regard, it is worth noting that on September 11, 1683, the army led by the Polish King, Jan Sobiesky, together with the Habsburg forces manning the fortress walls of Vienna, defeated the Islamic armies led [...]
The Freedom Chronicles 4.13.26 In response to our attack on Iran, we must try to determine what China will do. Now that Vice President Vance has walked out of the talks in Islamabad and Trump has announced a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, it will be important to observe what Iran’s benefactor, nuclear-armed China, [...]
The Freedom Chronicles 4.7.26 Winston Churchill is among the vast number of historians who have concluded that the war in Europe could have been prevented if Britain and France had acted to stop Hitler before he invaded Czechoslovakia. His building war machine and the speeches he delivered before adoring crowds made his intended conquest of [...]
The Freedom Chronicles: 3.29.26 After its first month, the bombing campaign conducted against Iran by the United States and Israel has produced some unprecedented “firsts” in the history of human conflict. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth schooled the legacy press,” Twenty-seven days ago, Iran had a modern military. Never in recorded history has a nation’s [...]
The Freedom Chronicles 03.22.2026 On April 12, 1945, the day Eisenhauer’s Allied Forces liberated Buchenwald, a man who walked out of the German camp under his own power was asked by a reporter what he had learned from the experience. The survivor replied, “When someone says he wants to kill you, believe him.” Born four [...]
The Freedom Chronicals 03.16.2026 As we await the fall of the Iranian regime, some readers of history will see it as a biblical event. Others will see it as providential in this clash of civilizations. In my book Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I describe, after Mohammad’s death in 632, the incredibly rapid conquest of the [...]
The Freedom Chronicles, Vol. 3.8.26 Amid war news coming from the Middle East, there have been reports of Kurdish military units massing near the Iranian Northern border, preparing to invade the country. In response, retired CIA Director General David Petraeus has opined that there is no prospect of Kurdish forces defeating the Iranian regime, which [...]
