17 May 1655: The Spanish sign articles of surrender #otd ceding #Jamaica to #England

Which famous painting best reflects your soul?

The British Museum may hand over the Elgin Marbles to Greece if it chooses, but there’s no good reason to. National Review nationalreview.com/corner/this-cu…

The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous Inhumane Toxic and Historically False. And it rejects totally indeed makes impossible the two states of Israel & Palestine that is the only way this is important but do read whole article b4 you condemn it. archive.ph/2023.10.28-061…

Haiti is once again in crisis, meaning foreign intervention is likely—but without an attempt to reconstruct a native ruling class, another intervention will do little to slow the country's demise. Alexander Causwell on "Haiti, the Zombie Republic": compactmag.com/article/haiti-…

Thank you, Sohrab Ahmari

This phrasing has it backwards. Instability leads to hunger. Necessary to re-establish order so that aid can reach the people.

Chesterton’s Glass Ceiling

We need to stop lying to ourselves about the situation in Haiti. I explain here: foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/13/hai…

The country is experiencing not just an uptick in gang violence—as the U.N. mandate for the new security mission characterizes it—but a full-blown insurgency, Alexander J. Causwell argues. foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/13/hai…

I hope that every US official who has a say on US policy for Haiti will read every word of [Jamaican expert] Alexander Causwell, below. Neither NGOs (thousands failed there) nor 1000 policemen can defeat armed insurgencies. Needed: infantry battalions foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/13/hai…

Over a century ago, Haitian statesman Anténor Firmin prophesied that if Haiti couldn’t right itself, it would necessarily fall under the aegis of foreign rule, as “no people can live indefinitely under tyranny, injustice, ignorance, and misery.” compactmag.com/article/haiti-…

As prophetic Haitian writer Lyonel Trouillot said, Haiti “isn’t a country …  but an epic failure factory, an excuse for a place, a weed lot, an abyss for tightrope-walkers, blindman’s bluff for the sightless saddled with delusions of grandeur.” compactmag.com/article/haiti-…

The #Haiti gang plan appears clear to me: The Martissant gangs & Kraze Barye are moving in from opposite sides above Port-au-Prince to meet & sweep down into Petionville while their soldiers below sweep up. And make no mistake: They want Guy Philippe in the presidential palace.

Civilian oversight of the military win

I wasn’t aware there was such an active Armenian presence in Kenya. :)

There has been no improvement upon the Nicomachean Ethics. Also, Rawls is overrated.