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Aug 17 2025 
The Delicate Exit
“Now let them seek a delicate exit from the mess they’ve gotten themselves into — but we will achieve our objectives.” — VVP
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
My coalescing sense of the underwhelming Alaska Chats is that Russia has not materially varied from its longstanding terms.
Trump rolled into town with his “stealth” flyover, imagining he was… Continue reading
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Jul 05 2025 
A Bird’s Eye View of the Ukraine War
The whole world is watching these developments with great interest.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
They will endeavor to talk tough and “keep up appearances” for a while yet, but as a credible and capable military/political alliance, NATO is irreparably broken.I’ve watched a LOT of drone footage from this war. I’ve seen, from a bird’s eye view,… Continue reading
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Jun 28 2025 
The United States Cannot Defeat Iran
Those whose calculus of a US/Iran war assumes overwhelming American air superiority will abruptly find the parameters of their equations altered.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
How soon people have forgotten that, earlier this year, the US dispatched two carrier strike groups and a half-dozen B-2s (and other USAF assets) to disarm the Yemeni and open the… Continue reading
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May 23 2025 
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight a war and die.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight… Continue reading
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Apr 01 2025 
Hold My Beer
The bomber is NOT always going to get through. Several of them are going to end up in flaming debris on Iranian mountainsides.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
Ok, right up front I want to make it clear that this post is simply an extended riff on the same theme I have been fixed upon in my… Continue reading
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Mar 23 2025 
Scorch Marks in the Sand
“Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin”
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
Javelin, Stinger, M-777 howitzer, HIMARS, Excalibur, Switchblade, all manner of electronic warfare gizmos and counter-battery radars, Bradley IFVs, Stryker, Leopard, Challenger, Abrams, Patriot, JDAMs, HARMS, Storm Shadow, ATACMS … I’m sure I’m forgetting some.
Oh, yeah … remember in early 2022 when the unveiling of the Bayraktar strike drones… Continue reading
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Mar 22 2025 
Geography
If the US is foolish enough to start a big war against Iran .. geography is the indomitable god of war.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
So the US is sending Carrier Strike Group One (CVN-70 USS Carl Vinson) to the Middle East, leaving CSG-5 (CVN-73 USS George Washington) to “hold the fort” in the western Pacific from the semi-safe environs… Continue reading
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Oct 15 2024 
The Sermon
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapter 9
The Sermon
Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense. “Star board gangway, there! side away to larboard—larboard gangway to starboard! Midships! midships!”
There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women’s shoes,… Continue reading
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May 17 2024 
NATO is Naked to Mankind
A Drone’s Eye View of the Ukraine War
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
The US/NATO intimidation factor has been forever compromised.
The essay below was originally published in early July 2022. Version 1.0 of #TheMotherOfAllProxyArmies in Ukraine had been severely attrited, and Version 2.0 would not appear until later in the summer.Nevertheless, it had already become very apparent… Continue reading
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Dec 02 2023 
Open Defiance
By William Schryver at imetatronink
In my view, the single most meaningful consequence of the NATO/Ukraine proxy war against Russia is that most of the major geopolitical players outside the imperial realm are suddenly in open defiance of the capricious “rules-based international order” and its rapacious monetary system.
The catalyst for this rebellion was that Vladimir Putin’s Russia stood… Continue reading
