Winners, Losers and Links
Winners
Logistics firms - They are pushing transportation costs through with massive price hikes. They just need truckers, merchant marines and train engineers.
Vaxxers - They get a booster coming so they have something new to talk about like a Marvel movie cycle.
Kids - School is back in session but masking is reduced and not mandatory in many districts.
Losers
National Security State - Afghanistan evacuation going bad.
Immigration Restrictionists - At America’s peak, it had 100,000 troops in Afghanistan. For some reason, all of them had translators we desperately need to settle in Wyoming.
Australians - Returning to its roots, it is an open air prison.
Links
Carlsbad’s work on Haller. This is a thorough work on Haller. It’ll take time to read, but is the best work put out by anyone in a long while. (Haller specific posts start here).
Sam Finlay writes a requiem for the Stan.
Dalrymple covers the globalization of culture and consumerism.
How bad was American military planning? There was no plan and no thought to a plan.
Nike’s woke advertising is for their elusive hunt at female dollars *and* a woke pivot.
Snowden on Apple setting up the infrastructure-for snooping on everything.
Abrahms covers the strategic organizing and hard work the Taliban put in to roll up their nation.