On Friday, the world lost a good man. And it truly was the world that lost him as is evident throughout our own country and in Kuwait where Bush lead the coalition to liberate that country from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein.
Bush was a member of the greatest generation, fighting in the Pacific during World War II (during which he was shot down), he was head of the CIA, Vice President for both of Reagan's terms and finally the 41st President of the United States and father to the 43rd President. Yet it should be noted that his last words were to his son, George W. Bush, "I love you, too". We need to come together in moments like these and respect the man not for politics (of which there are numerous things I disagree with) but for what he was, a man that wouldn't attack his opponents personally, a war hero, a husband and a loving father. We also shouldn't try and use the death of anyone to try and push our own political narrative (like what happened at John Mccain's funeral). All in all, farewell 41. -Jared Zimmerman (Originally published 12/5/18)
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Hungary and Ukraine. These are two countries that are very rarely talked about in American media, much less used in the same sentence. However the growing rift between these two countries are starting to embolden one of our historic enemies, Russia. The major cause of conflict between Hungary and Ukraine has to do with the 1920 Treaty of Trianon which saw the breaking up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and left half of Hungary's population stranded throughout Eastern Europe. 156,000 of these ethnic-Maygars are in Western Ukraine. Recently, Ukraine just past a law stating that secondary schools (middle-high schools) must teach in Ukrainian. This of course has angered Hungary as Hungary has been in the process of trying to reach ethnic-Maygars across Eastern Europe since 1930. Hungary has in response barred Ukrainian admission into NATO. This has all played out right into Putin's hands and as Russia has recently sized three Ukrainian ships this is much cause for concern. If Eastern Europe continues to be divided then Eastern Europe will return to being nothing more than an extension of Russia. Now is the time for the United States to make both countries come to the table and work out a deal. How? By threatening to take back all financial and military aid given to both countries. The West must be a united front against the Russian bear and if we start arguing amongst ourselves the West has already fallen. -Jared Zimmerman (Originally published 11/29/18) With growing Chinese aggression not only in trade but also in military form the United States needs allies in the that are in close proximity to China to help keep them at bay.
India currently claims that China occupies 14,000 square miles in the Aksai Chin along the northern border of Kashmir and during the summer of 2017 Chinese forces attempted to build a road through Indian territory to Bhutan. The Chinese countered that it was Chinese territory and all Indian forces need to withdraw. India has also been a vocal opponent to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor which is more or less Chinese funding for Pakistani infrustruce with the goal of modernizing Pakistan. Of course a modern Pakistan is not in the interest of India which gives the US a perfect opening to get India at the table. However why India? India is the only nation that has had anti-Chinese rhetoric and be directly connected to China. India is also one of the few nations to compete with the strength of the Chinese military (due to its multiple conflicts with Pakistan) and is one of the few nations with nuclear weapons. An alliance with India would also allow the US to give weapons (even more so than we already do) to the Indian military rather then send even more American troops when we are already engaged in the Middle East, especially with the growing threat of Iran. And it would allow the West to hold the Chinese feet to the fire when pressuring Beijing on its construction of military bases in the South China Sea and its aggressive invasion of the Arctic and Africa. In other words if the United States were to miss this opportunity we would be nothing but foolish. -Jared Zimmerman (Originally published 10/31/18) Due to the outcry against President Trump on redefining the word "sex" in Title IX (back to its original meaning of biological sex) the debate on "transgenderism" is now back in session.
If we keep to the standard of biology (XX and XY) then we get the answer that there are only two genders. However once we stray from this hard standard there are a multitude of questions/problems that need to be answered. For example this idea of basing policy or decisions on how an individual feels has opened up the doors to ideas such as "transspecies" (the idea that someone can identify as another species), "transagism" (the idea someone can identify as a different age then there biological age) and even "transracialism" (the idea that an individual can identify as a different race). These new ideas of course have a brought upon a flood of problems or soon to be problems. Some of these problems/questions that need to be answered by the "trans" movement are: can someone that is biologically 35 years old marry someone who is also biologically 35 years old but identifies as someone who's 6 years? And if there's someone whose 25 years old and they currently have a job but now they self identify as an 8 year old does that person's place of employment now have to fire them as keeping that person hired is now child labor? Or how about a person who is biologically a 14 year old can that kid now identify as a 21 year old and thus be able to buy alcohol? Of course these questions may seem ridiculous and they would be utterly ridiculous if we stayed at the standard of biology but that's not what the "trans" movement wants. They want to go based off of a person's feelings and by going based off this there is no reason anyone can't be anything and the "trans" movement can not pick and choose which "transism" it wants to support because to do so would be a complete contradiction to their entire movement of feelings. - Jared Zimmerman (Originally published 10/25/18) The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), a forum between China and all states of Africa ended yesterday. The goal of these talk, for China to begin competing against the West in Africa and most likely the Middle East. During these talks the Chinese are setting themselves up as the "savior of Africa" in which they are trying to persuade the African states to subjugate themselves to the Chinese State (in reality the Chinese Communist Party). In fact this can already be seen in Kenya, Ethiopia, Angola, Djibouti and Nigeria which have had their entire railway system funded by China.
The danger of this is of course Chinese influence in the region and with China having a rating of "Not Free" according to Freedom House, it is safe to say that China isn't exactly advocating for freedom like it's Western counterparts. It also may not stop at just influence as many African states find themselves in crippling debt to China and could end up like Sri Lanka, which wich was force to give up it's Hambantota port for 99 years to China due to debt. In the end it is up to the United States and our allies to advocate for freedom abroad and if we turn over the "top dog" position to China, millions if not billions will suffer as a result. -Jared Zimmerman (originally published on 9/26/18)
As of this moment, there is absolutely no evidence that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford. Two days ago a long time friend of Ford, Leland Ingham Keyser, someone who Ford claims was at the party that she was alleged assaulted at by Kavanaugh, has denied that she was ever at a party with Kavanaugh. This makes her the third person to deny that such a party ever existed and since Ford claims there was only four at the party, that just leaves her word against three. As of this moment, Ford is set to testify this Thursday before the 21 person Senate Judiciary Committee. As of the last 24 hours a new allegation against Kavanaugh has sprung up by a Deborah Ramirez. However there is reason to be skeptical as Ronan Farrow and coauthor Jayne Mayer of the New Yorker wrote, "She came forward because Senate Democrats came looking for this claim. She did not flag this. This came to the attention of people on the hill independently, and it has co cornered her into an awkward position." Of course if any of these allegations are true then Kavanaugh should be removed from the nomination process and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. - Jared Zimmerman (originally published on 9/24/18) |
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