Tea and Vitriol

The European Union, at first glance, appears to be a powerful geo-political entity. Composed of most of the "democracies" of the Western European continent, including the economic powerhouse of Germany, it has tried to pose as one of the world's superpowers. Only it isn't. Comprised of frequently quarreling member states, possessed of a complicated and cumbersome constitutional framework that reveals itself daily in the European Parliament, its much-touted successes have always been dependent on the military might of the United States to protect it from itself and the threats to it posed by Russia and her allies. NATO was supposed to act as a deterrent to Russian aggression, at which it has failed repeatedly. Despite all of its economic and industrial potential, the European Union really only ranks as a second-rate power, although it has postured as something far greater. Until yesterday. European Union President Ursula von der Leyen surrendered unconditionally to US ...

It's Monica Lewinsky's birthday! She turns fifty-two today! My, how time flies! It seems like it was only yesterday that she was crawling around the Oval Office in the White House on her hands and knees. Or maybe I should have said "The Oral Office." Monica Lewinsky needs no introduction to anyone who followed presidential scandals between the Korean and Russo-Ukraine Wars.  This rather silly, incredibly stupid college student was a major factor in the sex scandal that led to the impeachment of US President Bill "Horndog" Clinton. It was only the second time in history, at that time, that a US President had been impeached. Though it was unsuccessful, that fallout regarding US politics and its place of primacy in the world had become questioned and Horndog himself was mocked on an international scale, especially from the US's own allies. Let's take a little trip back to Memory Lane. As I have stated, Monica Lewinsky was an incredibly stupid and silly ...