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We Surrender… and Fight On. Explaining the Duality of Iran’s Military
The Islamic Republic was designed not merely to wage war but to survive political shocks, including military defeat
lhpgop
Mar 45 min read


IS THE POTENTIAL FALL OF IRAN THE WORK OF QUR'AN-IC JUSTICE?
Under Islamic theology, persistent violation of these principles undermines claims to divine legitimacy and places a regime within the Qur’anic pattern of rulers warned of eventual downfall.
lhpgop
Mar 15 min read


IRAN: OPERATION EPIC FURY 2/28.26 (AS OF 16:35 EST)
Current operational emphasis remains kinetic and decapitation-oriented rather than territorial control or governance.
lhpgop
Feb 283 min read


THOMAS MASSIE WILL STOP THE "WAR" IN IRAN?
America First does not mean America paralyzed. The President, as Commander in Chief, possesses long-recognized authority to conduct limited military actions, especially when deterrence or immediate national security interests are involved. That authority has been exercised by Democrats and Republicans alike for decades, often with Congress responding afterward through funding or targeted authorizations.
lhpgop
Feb 282 min read


Fault Lines on the Durand Line: Why Pakistan and Afghanistan Are Fighting — and How It Could Be Contained
The latest round of fighting between Pakistan and Taliban-run Afghanistan marks the most serious escalation between the two neighbors since the U.S. withdrawal.
lhpgop
Feb 273 min read


America First in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The American system of federalism further complicates the matter. Utility regulation, environmental review, water rights, and zoning authority are distributed across federal, state, and local jurisdictions. Requiring AI firms to construct generation capacity respects this layered authority rather than overriding it.
lhpgop
Feb 254 min read


THE DEATH OF EL MENCHO
A pre-dawn operation by Army special forces + National Guard, with airborne surveillance/support and U.S. intelligence assistance for confirmation/overwatch, attempted to capture him.
lhpgop
Feb 244 min read


TRUMP’S TARIFF WAR 2.0 — The Train Kept Rolling
The “pay back tariffs” narrative is therefore less a statement of law than a simplification — one that converts a technical warning about litigation risk into a dramatic economic scare.
lhpgop
Feb 203 min read


Climate Litigation and Institutional Incentives: Examining the EPA Lawsuit and the Political Economy of the “Green Agenda”
Many of the organizations involved operate within a policy environment where climate regulation is closely tied to their institutional growth, funding streams, and influence.
lhpgop
Feb 195 min read


Why So Many Young Men Follow Online Influencers Today or “Why so many guys are lowkey obsessed with influencers rn”
The popularity of these figures reflects a larger social reality: many young men are searching for guidance about success, identity, and purpose.
Traditional sources of direction — community institutions, stable career paths, and clear social expectations — have weakened.
lhpgop
Feb 166 min read


Venezuela Status Report (as of Feb 11, 2026)
What you’re seeing is consistent with a real ramp-up in sanctioned-but-authorized energy activity:
lhpgop
Feb 113 min read


THE US SKI TEAM WILL NOT HAVE A MEXICO CITY MOMENT
The American athlete has historically been admired not merely for performance, but for stakes—for competing in a system where symbols mean something, where representation carries obligation, and where protest carries risk.
lhpgop
Feb 74 min read


The Places Beijing Overreached: A Sun Tzu Audit of China’s Taiwan Stratagem
Beijing’s propaganda often assumes the United States must choose between direct war in the Strait or abandonment.
lhpgop
Feb 54 min read


GERMANY WANTS A NUCLEAR ARSENAL
German leaders publicly framing NPT / Two Plus Four as “obsolete” or conditional
New German budget lines for fuel-cycle expansion, enrichment capacity growth tied to sovereign control, or weapons-adjacent R&D
lhpgop
Feb 44 min read


China’s Great Green Lie: What “World Leader in Renewables” Really Means
China is not leading a clean-energy revolution. It is leading a numbers revolution.
lhpgop
Feb 44 min read


The Quiet Coalition Defending the Fed
The Senate’s reaction—freezing nominations, demanding investigations be dropped rather than concluded, and admitting there may be no procedural path forward—signals how intolerable that reframing would be to the current order.
lhpgop
Feb 33 min read


Strategic Signaling, Not War: Understanding Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Iran
Neoconservatives tend to view military power as meaningful only when used kinetically. If bombs are not falling, they assume weakness or indecision.
lhpgop
Feb 23 min read


THE "STRUGGLE" JUNKIES. THE MODERN PROTESTER IS STRUGGLING WITH STRUGGLE
To those of the younger generation who refuse to mistake noise for numbers and chaos for consensus: take heart. The destructive voices you see amplified daily are not the majority—they only appear so because outrage is rewarded and restraint is ignored.
lhpgop
Jan 315 min read


WHERE IS "El CID"? A Decree Against the Nation: How Spain’s Leaders Turned Their Backs on the People
Spain is not a blank slate.It is not a spreadsheet.It is not a laboratory for ideological fantasies.
A nation is a shared inheritance: economic, cultural, and civic. It survives only when change happens with consent, at a pace people can absorb, and in service of those who already belong to it.
lhpgop
Jan 273 min read


PAPER DRAGON. A Structural Assessment of PRC Power, Vulnerability, and Strategic Overstatement
Intelligence professionals must be trained to see through the shimmer—and to recognize that systems built on opacity, coercion, and external dependence rarely perform well when exposed to time, pressure, and friction.
lhpgop
Jan 225 min read
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