Russell Seitz

Washington has entered its Golden Age as a Renaissance Swamp #SecretaryofState

Lee Kuan Yew had these wise words to say as modern Singapore's Founding Father, and spent six months a Harvard Fellow sharing them with the undergraduates of the House that hosted him: youtube.com/shorts/nZv_UkMh0… via @YouTube

While Pete Hegseth's political career got a boost when Fox TV hailed him as a "Mega Norwegian," the Secretary of War's boss now says: “Frankly, Norway sucks.Norway has become a shithouse country, actually. I didn’t get the Nobel Prize; so I don’t want anybody from Norway,”

Rubio's rhetoric and Hegseth's strutting trumpery recall a Chinese proverb in Evelyn Waugh's Phony War novel, 𝙋𝙪𝙩 𝙊𝙪𝙩 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙁𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙨.: "A farewell party should strike a musical tone…and a drunk military man should order gallons and put out more flags in order to increase his military splendour.’

Hegseth's staffers think they did him a favor by dropping the Eisenhower' Globe for now it can be restored to reflect Trump's worldview: #Hegseth

MAGA sources say Vice President Vance's Titanic remarks prove that only Trump Class Battleships can sink Iranian icebergs unleashed in the Strait of Hormuz...

Trump has done much to enlarge America's imagination of disaster.

From TDS to MDS ; welcome to the brave new world of Map Derangement Syndrome #newamerica

#NewAmerica If New Mexico disappears from the map, will it make room for the 51st Fifty First state ?

While Trump presents his Secretary of State as a titan of diplomacy, how does Rubio compare with Secretary Jefferson's statesmanship in the Napoleonic Wars, J.Q. Adams authorship of the Monroe Doctrine and diplomatic acquisition of Florida, Daniel Webster's peaceful Canadian border settlement, Seward's purchase of Alaska, Hamilton Fish's landmark Treaty of Washington or John Hay's Panama Canal agreements? If he wants to play GOAT like his boss, he'll have to compete with the Marshall Plan, Dean Acheson's creation of NATO and Secretary Kissinger's role in opening of China and the collapse of the Soviet Empire.

The Singularity, or whatever you call it, remains, if you're smarter than President Trump, not just here, but already headed for its first birthday. The problem is that it remains not only un-equally distributed , but entirely absent from the discourse of most voters.

Where does he find these people?

Is Hegseth bucking for an Oscar? Kubrick's WWI classic 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘺 features the court martial & execution for cowardice of a soldier who, though paralyzed and unable to stand, is carried to the stake on a stretcher by MP's and propped up to face his firing squad