"The main elements in New Right thinking include strict barriers to illegal immigration, reduced legal immigration and hostility to the EU...
They include a firm belief in the family as the bedrock of morality, communities and the nation; an effort to raise birth rates, now running well below replacement level in Europe; and a view of “wokeism”, cancel culture and retrospective blame for imperialism as dangers to democratic values.
Many parties strongly support Christianity, though they fear it will disappear within a few decades. Meloni stresses her Catholicism and attachment to the late doctrinally conservative pope Benedict XVI."
-John Lloyd, Financial Times
...there was a sober silence in the room. Samuel Adams, a key figure in the American Revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, spoke up to say,
“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”
Colonel Douglas MacGregor predicts a continuation of the Iran war soon, once all sides have replenished missile stocks.
"Washington’s political class manifests much less regard for the long-term strategic interests of its own citizens—their security and prosperity. As a result, Washington pays an exorbitant price in reputation and treasure for policies that confront Palestinians with the choice of death or expulsion from their homelands.
"Assumptions of tacit acceptance or rapid capitulation are implicit and dangerous.
[The Muslims will not 'do a deal.']
"When Hitler was briefed on the expected Soviet reaction to Operation Barbarossa, Major General Ernst Koestring, a Prussian officer fluent in Russian from a family that had lived in Moscow since the reign of Catherine the Great, advised: “Initially, German forces will advance rapidly. The various peoples on the Soviet periphery will likely welcome the German forces. Resistance will be weak. But when the Germans advance into ...