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Philip Pilkington explains that last week’s Houthi missile attack on Israel was a single missile and there was something like 2000 km of advance notice. Both THAAD [American Air Defense] and Arrow [Isareli Air Defense] tried and failed to take it down as it headed straight for Israel’s main airport.
“Air defense,” he writes, “is completely useless against this technology. Military planners should stop coping and just deal with this new reality.
“It is becoming extremely clear that air defense is basically useless against modern missile technology. The Houthi missiles are likely 10-20 years behind Russian and Chinese gear and a single one can get through layered Western air defense. It’s a new world.”
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
