Worth Reading December 22, 2022

Domestic outlook

A good assessment of Kamala Harris (MPD)

This article seems to cut through a lot of stuff and get to the heart of one key aspect of the Republican Party, if there really is such a thing today. It has the side benefit of being a very short read. (JDQB)

Ukraine outlook

A well written if perhaps wishful analysis of damage to Russia from sanctions and Putin’s own errors (MPD)

An introduction to the doctrine of Forward Resilience to counter Russia’s intended destruction of Ukraine (MPD)

A dreadfully pessimistic assessment of the prospects for Ukraine.  Passed to editors by a serious source, but containing some politically-charged phrasing relevant to its credibility (MPD)

For those who can stand it, this interview with the vocal “realist” John Mearsheimer reveals the fantasies on which he and others are now basing their views on Putin and Ukraine, as well as a great deal about Mearsheimer’s character. (WDM)

Afghanistan

In the last issue, we wrote about the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and Father Peter Gray’s charitable work there. He provides first-hand reports from those he helps about the latest ban on education for women by the Taliban.

Something uplifting

As a devoted reader of Tolkein, WDM is delighted by this essay on living in a time when all seems to be lost.  One favorite quotation is: “Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”