By Selwyn Duke

It’s hard finding an American, anywhere, who believes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a good thing. I’m no exception. War is ugly, and innocent people suffer as the pseudo-elites play their geopolitical chess games driven by power-lust, pocketbook and politics. This also isn’t about rooting for the “good guys.” For Vladimir Putin cannot be counted among them, and, for that matter, neither can ex-actor and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy or our globalist “leaders.” Rather, this concerns something else.

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By Selwyn Duke

Call him an “An Old-Fashioned Man” if you want, to quote one of his song’s titles, but there’s something you’d better not call Smokey Robinson: African-American. The legendary 82-year-old crooner made this crystal clear recently while appearing on The View, saying, among other things, that black servicemen dying in our wars didn’t give their lives for African nations — they died for America.

The topic arose, music website Vibe reported Thursday, because for Black History Month a teacher had animated a 2004 poem Robinson penned entitled “A Black American.” The singer was then asked about the poem’s meaning in The View interview, and the first thing he stated, emphatically, was “I resent being called an African-American — I really do.”

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By Selwyn Duke

We discussed how unwise neocon policy might have created the Ukraine situation and whether Vladimir Putin would provoke NATO to buttress his image at home. 

By Selwyn Duke

“We have to get used to being number two.” So said JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, talking about what many see as inevitable Chinese dominance. As to the timing, former World Bank vice-president Justin Lin Yifu believes Beijing is ahead of schedule.

“I’m pretty confident … China will surpass the US by 2030,” said Yifu, now a professor at Peking University and also an advisor to his government, earlier this week. And many believe the current economic war being waged on Russia by the West — whose own citizens will suffer consequences — is only accelerating this process.

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By Selwyn Duke

I was on the second hour of the show. My appearance begins at 52:20.

Note: To fast-forward to my segment, you must right-click on the in-line MP3 player below and then click "Open link in new tab."

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By Selwyn Duke

“What’s left to conserve?” Some have asked this question over the years, of conservatives, in reference to what they see as the smoldering ruins of our culture. Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) host Matt Schlapp apparently has in mind one thing to conserve, however: “Transgender” activists’ language and suppositions.

This came to light with a recent tweet (below) — which inspired pushback from other conservatives — in which Schlapp addressed the controversy over University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) swimmer Will Thomas, who claims he’s female and has adopted the first name “Lia.”

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By Selwyn Duke

Here's an excellent video examining our very tendentious political classifications. I'll add that Mohandas Gandhi (quite a bad man, actually) called Benito Mussolini a "Superman" and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist, just like the Nazis. 

By Selwyn Duke

“Whoever tries to impede us, let alone create threats for our country and its people, must know that the Russian response will be immediate and lead to the consequences you have never seen in history.” So said Russian president Vladimir Putin mere minutes before launching the invasion of Ukraine.

Three days later, the Russian leader put his nuclear forces on “special combat readiness,” a high-alert status. Around the same time, TV anchor Dmitry Kiselyov, known as a venomous Kremlin mouthpiece, boasted to his viewers of Russia’s destructive nuclear capacity and then echoed the Puntinesque principle, “’Why do we need the world if Russia isn’t there?”

All this may just reflect another Russian principle, a military one: “Escalate to deescalate” (that is, to intimidate and extract concessions). Yet there’s another possibility.

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By Selwyn Duke

Vladimir Putin may be winning the war on the ground in Ukraine, but he’s losing the propaganda war abroad and at home. So says a national security expert who also warns of what would turn the Russian leader’s home-front public-relations fortunes around: NATO involvement in the conflict.

In fact, states Tom Nichols, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, Putin may want to provoke NATO into intervening in Ukraine visibly in order to have a boogeyman against whom to rally his increasingly demoralized people.

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By Selwyn Duke

How much should people be paid for a product that doesn’t sell? According to those upset about the Russians’ arrest of basketball player Brittney Griner, oodles of money is the answer — if that unmarketable product happens to be the WNBA.

In fact, say these critics, that Griner is charged with “large-scale transportation of drugs” — for allegedly trying to leave Russia with vape cartridges filled with cannabis oil — is America’s fault.

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