From the Desk of a Male, Pale and Stale
What if the tariff strategy fails? (Trump tariff strategy, part three)
What if the tariff strategy fails? (Trump tariff strategy, part three)
America and the world risk letting China race ahead in the most significant technological revolution of modern times greatly extending its global influence in the process.
The idea of selling coal in Newcastle seemed so ridiculous, they coined a term for it that applies to any attempt to do something ridiculous. Fast forward to 2025, and England now has to import coal from Japan. Really.
Israel is not just a state – it is the embodiment of the triumph of a people over history’s greatest injustices, and a living example of the enduring power of the human spirit to overcome even the harshest of adversities.
The small group – made up of NZDF personnel and staff from the New Zealand Embassy – recited a karakia and The Ode, and played the Last Post across the landscape, where trenches have re-emerged following wildfires in August last year.
The signal flare has gone up, the opportunity to deliver capabilities faster, cheaper, and more effectively is not only possible – it is imperative.
It isn’t just direct, obvious welfare, but a web of indirect dependency through pointless jobs and services tied to government. And it isn’t just an economic millstone – it’s a cultural rot. The US risks the same fate unless it heeds the warning.
It is to our eternal shame that in 2025 we are unprepared or unwilling to do what it takes to hand the baton of liberty to the next generations. Our negligence in defending it has rendered us undeserving.
To embrace Jewish identity fully (unapologetically and joyfully) is the most powerful response to those who have sought, and still seek, to erase it. Our answer to centuries of erasure is this: Am Yisrael Chai.