politics Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/tag/politics Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:32:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 182200397 Why we cannot stop poking the Bear https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/why-we-cannot-stop-poking-the-bear.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/why-we-cannot-stop-poking-the-bear.html#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:30:47 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=24008 LRFotS Abeer Yusless provided an interesting musing to my recent poast, about how woefully and inadequately prepared the Western military leadership class is for an actual, really-for-real shooting war with the ROOSKEES: It’s a shame that so many in the west feel the need to treat Russia with such disdain and contempt. There’s no reason […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/why-we-cannot-stop-poking-the-bear.html/feed 1 24008 A weak mean has brought extremely hard times https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/a-weak-mean-has-brought-extremely-hard-times.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/a-weak-mean-has-brought-extremely-hard-times.html#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:27:28 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23979 We all know that old saying about what I will call – for lack of a better term – “the cycle of times”. It is a simple and effective encapsulation of well-received and time-tested wisdom: Looking at how Ornj Boi has gone about things in his second term, I am forced to ask an uncomfortable […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/a-weak-mean-has-brought-extremely-hard-times.html/feed 2 23979 When MBAs play soldier https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/when-mbas-play-soldier.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/when-mbas-play-soldier.html#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:45:37 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23978 Alexus Grynkewich is not exactly a household name for most people. Nor should he be. He is the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, effectively the second highest-ranking military officer in the entire NATO structure. That is a post once held by no less a person than General (and eventual President) Dwight D. Eisenhower. Gen. Grynkewich recently […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/when-mbas-play-soldier.html/feed 3 23978 Triple-A gaming deserves to die https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/triple-a-gaming-deserves-to-die.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/triple-a-gaming-deserves-to-die.html#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:28:01 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23953 The latest triple-A game to launch and faceplant, HARD, has been, of course, Gears of War: E-Day. The independent media has been full of news about just how bad things have gotten for that game – and, weirdly enough, this is one game where the backlash is, at first glance, very strange. Apparently, this is […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/triple-a-gaming-deserves-to-die.html/feed 1 23953 Never go full Tory https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/never-go-full-tory.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/never-go-full-tory.html#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:47:29 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23928 It would appear that Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg realised he touched a bit of a nerve the other day, when he issued a call for Britain to prepare for WAAGH!! with the Russian Orcs of Mordor. As I noted at the time, that went down with most of Mr. Rees-Mogg’s viewers – including myself – “like […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/10/never-go-full-tory.html/feed 8 23928 Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori? https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/dulce-et-decorum-est-pro-patria-mori.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/dulce-et-decorum-est-pro-patria-mori.html#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:30:25 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23892 Some years back, when I thought that Bozo BoJo was actually going to do some good as Prime Monster of PommieBastardLande, I wrote quite favourably about one Jacob Rees-Mogg, an MP for North East Somerset, who eventually became quite a high-ranking member of the Cuckservative goobermint. These days, he is Sir Jacob, as he got […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/dulce-et-decorum-est-pro-patria-mori.html/feed 1 23892 The grim darkness of the near future https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/the-grim-darkness-of-the-near-future.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/the-grim-darkness-of-the-near-future.html#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:09:11 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23865 To live in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/09/the-grim-darkness-of-the-near-future.html/feed 5 23865 Dispatches from Mordor: My kingdom for a fill-up! https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/dispatches-from-mordor-my-kingdom-for-a-fill-up.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/dispatches-from-mordor-my-kingdom-for-a-fill-up.html#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:44:30 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23633 Longtime Readers will recall that I went on vacation back in mid-June for a couple of weeks, and I travelled specifically to Mordor, aka Russia, for that purpose. While I was there, I had the chance to observe Russia’s society, culture, and economy, in some detail, across both the capital region of Moscow, and the […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/dispatches-from-mordor-my-kingdom-for-a-fill-up.html/feed 3 23633 And all of Hell rejoiced https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/and-all-of-hell-rejoiced.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/and-all-of-hell-rejoiced.html#respond Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:42:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23637 When news broke on July 11th that Sen. Lindsay Graham had “died suddenly” after a “brief illness”, the first thing that came to mind for many of us surely was: IT’S ABOUT BLOODY TIME!!! It is often said that one should not speak ill of the dead. That is a concept dating far beyond Christianity […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/and-all-of-hell-rejoiced.html/feed 0 23637 The agony of deceit https://didacticmind.com/2026/06/the-agony-of-deceit.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/06/the-agony-of-deceit.html#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:10:11 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23594 Over the past week, we have seen a whole lot of noise about the supposed “peace deal” between the Epstein Coalition and Iran. The terms of that “pissdill”, to use a Russianism, are nothing short of devastating for the US-Izzraeli side that initiated a blatant act of unprovoked aggression. There are a few fundamental points […]

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