How is the world going to react as the war in Ukraine takes a turn for the worse as the US president announces a deal to sell Russian diesel oil on the international market with a freeze on attacks… a freeze immediately broken by one of the largest attacks of the war accompanied by […]
Category: Costs of War
The Fox’s Realm — Day One to Today
It was first seen in Australia and soon migrated via airway to the United Kingdom and found a tabloid environment in which to flourish. Then, 30 years ago, on this day and month, it went on the prowl in New York City… It found a verdant landscape and rich hunting grounds
Ulanqab and Frontier A.I. Race: China v U.S.
Along comes Ulanqab… a ‘tiny place in Mongolia that you’ve probably never heard of: Ulanqab prefecture…. It’s sparsely populated, 1.5 million people… on windswept grassland on the Mongolian plateau… there is more to this place — (Editor: Much more) than meets the eye…’
MMA Fight & MOU from the White House
The weekend at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20500 featured dueling events. One took place in a rapidly constructed arena called ‘The Claw’, the other took place from the Executive Residence of the U.S. president, as social media announcements were released about ending a war….
April 7, 2026, Warning of War Crimes
The president of the United States uses the Christian occasion of Easter morning to send out a message warning the world of his intent, as Commander in Chief of the United States, to destroy the Iranian civilization
Another War
Another war, more spending for war, conventional… and nuclear. The US is top of the world in war spending and the US president now wants 50% more for the War Department. Truth is, we have a need to know the deeper costs of war ….
Trump says he needs another $500 (or $600) billion
On the Donald J Trump ‘Truth Social’ site, this past week the US President announced he would be calling for a vastly expanded military budget. He explained that he wants to build a ‘Dream Military’ … Here at Strategic Demands we say ‘no’ to billions and billions more for new conflicts, wasteful spending, and misdirected […]
Another Executive Order, a “Department of War”
By order of the President of the United States, an updated name, the “Department of War”, was officially recognized today via Oval Office ceremony… The new “Secretary of War”, Pete Hegseth, explained prior to the signing that “lethality” is the intent of the re-naming…
Broken Pledges, Rumbling War
Back in the 1990s with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union with its release of control over Eastern European nations, came a negotiation. This would eventually bring the world to today — and war in Ukraine. Let’s look more closely …
SpaceX, Starship, Starlink, Starshield… and Next Gen US Space Capabilities, Surveillance & Supremacy
As Elon Musk becomes a major player in the formation of incoming president Donald Trump’s administration, it’s time to take a moment in time and look at what Musk’s businesses bring to the Republican party’s commander-in-chief.
Death of Yahya Sinwar in Gaza War — What’s Next?
News reports of the death of the Hamas leader began to leak out yesterday. Today more details are being revealed. One of his last acts, it seems, as Sinwar lay gravely injured by an Israeli tank shell explosion was… to turn toward a hovering drone monitoring him and throw a stick at it…
Is Russia ‘Bluffing’ — or About to Push the World Over a Cliff
So, are the Russians ‘saber-rattling’ or are they prepping to ‘melt’ Kyiv as Mr. Medvedev is threatening? Is Putin planning to push the proverbial button and launch a nuclear war — and face the consequences? Is his bunker prepared?
What percentage of your life…
StratDem has been questioned about the term “perpetual war” as in — “the U.S. has entered a period of perpetual war”. Stop and ask yourself about the facts. The Washington Post has a graphic answer — How much of your life the U.S. has been at war
Multiplying Pits ‘n Triggers
‘Modernization’ of U.S. nuclear weapons systems is racing forward, budgets booming, artificial intelligence and gyrations of command & control rolling. Meanwhile in Los Alamos, the ‘birthplace of the Bomb’ and main location of the Academy award-winning film “Oppenheimer”, Bomb-makers are beginning to prep next gen “nuke ’em pits ‘n triggers”
“Nothing will stop us” — says Benjamin Netanyahu
Reports of 29,000+ bombs and tens of thousands of artillery and tank shells dropped on the Gaza enclave with resulting vast devastation and profound humanitarian crisis… The head of the Israeli military, the nation’s Prime Minister, promises not to stop until ‘victory’ is achieved. But is ‘victory’ attainable?
Henry Kissinger Dead
Henry Kissinger, Failed Diplomat, US National Security Adviser, Secretary of State, Corporate Consultant Dies 100 Years Old November 30, 2023
Oppenheimer: The Movie
GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands Snapshot of Reviews the Day After Oppenheimer’s Premiere (with a personal memory of a father’s flight over the Trinity site days after ‘the Bomb’ was first tested by Los Alamos scientists) ♦
