Presenting ideas and thoughts about matters of importance
One authoritative voice, writing in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, issues this solemn prediction:
“Leaders who fail to confront their new reality are failing their countries,” he warns. “It is time to acknowledge that the old order really has disappeared—and to plot a new approach to geopolitics” (emphasis added throughout)
In September 1654, twenty-three Jewish refugees staggered ashore in New Amsterdam in the New World–blown off course, stripped of nearly everything, and immediately detained over an unpaid fare. Nothing about their arrival suggested they carried anything of merit.
But they actually carried an immeasurable value: an unbreakable promise made to Abraham nearly four thousand years earlier.
One hundred thirty-six years later, in a small seaport in Rhode Island, the first President of the United States would deliver the words that put that promise into force–and, in doing so, quietly guarantee the astonishing ascendancy of the nation he led.
August 6 2026 – Eighty-one years ago this morning, a mere 1.7% of 141 pounds of Uranium 235 went critical 1,900 feet over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Some 70,000 people were instantly vaporized or burned to death in a radioactive firestorm. The total killed by the first use of nuclear weapons in combat would … Read more