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Just two weeks ago the British Ministry of Defence placed contracts with 22 companies to plan a new generation of explosives factories, with feasibility studies due by the end of September and construction meant to begin before the end of the year. The goal is at least six new plants producing energetic materials: the explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics that go inside every shell, bomb, and missile a military fires. Military chiefs are racing to break ground because Britain's stockpiles, drawn down by donations to Ukraine, cannot be rebuilt without them. It is the most instructive defense industrial story in the world right now, and Washington should be taking notes.
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There is a street in Tbilisi named after George W. Bush. Count the capitals on earth with a street named for an American president. It will not take you long.
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Washington’s argument about Greenland has narrowed to familiar points: critical minerals, Arctic sea lanes and the early-warning mission at Pituffik Space Base. Each matters. Together, they still miss the larger problem.
Missoula
Scholarly surveys, discussions and polls have consistently revealed a clear consensus: the leadership capacity of the founding generation — Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton and Madison — is unrivaled by any subsequent coterie of American statesman. It is true that these same academic conversations reflect agreement that Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt stand atop the list of America’s greatest presidents, with founding chief executives such as Washington and Jefferson closely on their heels, but there is, it seems, no generation of political leaders across 250 years that is comparable to those who launched the American Revolution, drafted the Declaration of Independence and wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
(The Center Square) – Ahead of the NATO summit in Turkey, President Donald Trump is calling out several NATO partners for their spending.
Missoula
The evolution in America of rationales for the cascading growth of presidential power, which began in earnest in the post-war world and followed a trajectory through the expression of the Imperial Presidency before reaching new heights in President Donald Trump’s authoritarian pretensions, has long found traction in the misappropriation and misuse of Justice Robert H. Jackson’s famous aphorism, “the Constitution is not a suicide pact.”
Missoula
One of the grave consequences for American constitutionalism of the untrammeled concentration of power in the hands of President Donald Trump — the putative goal of Project 2025 — is his total control over the Department of Justice. There is no separation between President Trump and his Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, his former criminal defense lawyer, no independence between the White House and the DOJ. What Trump wants, Trump gets — the governing principle of authoritarianism.
