What's Inside This Mental Breakdown of Writing? Here, you'll find my wandering thoughts on economics, geopolitics, culture, technology, and daily ideas. Plus, I'll be dropping little peeks behind the curtain on my novel and nonfiction projects.
While reading Annie Jacobsen's book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, she mentioned NATO's protocol of promoting peace and stability and encouraging democracy, cooperation and dialogue.
According to Dr. John Mearsheimer, Dr. Jeffrey Sacks, and numerous other geopolitical and economic experts, NATO is founded on peaceful dispute resolution; however, beneath this rhetoric lies a complex and sinister reality of historical political egotism in North America and Europe.
Furthermore, it is not helpful for the US government and Congress to sell military equipment to NATO and then pretend to wash their…
Prior to reading Nuclear War A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen, I didn't truly understand the significance and dangers that nuclear submarines really had such apocalyptic, nuclear suicidal power.
Beneath the calm, oceans move the Handmaidens of the Apocalypse. These submarines cradle within their steel hearts the quiet possibility of our extinction. These Quiet ocean killers glide unseen, anonymous, held together by discipline and chain of command. Nations speak of them as instruments of peace, embodiments of deterrence, yet their true purpose is far more ancient, to remind humanity that power…
A Great Power, obeys no moral laws. It follows its own logic, spheres of influence, zones of control, and the invisible boundaries that great empires draw around their perceived security and access to wealth.
Imagine for a moment if Russia or China were to build military bases on Canadian or Mexican soil. Washington would not respond with diplomacy or reason. It would respond with force. American troops would move north and south, and the CIA would weave its dark art of regime change, as it has done countless times before in other countries. This instinct is not new, it is the living spirit…
On October 19, 2025, China’s Ministry of State Security declared that it possesses “ironclad evidence” of a NSA cyberattack, allegedly, and likely involving members of the Five Eyes alliance, against the National Time Service Centre in Xi’an, China.
As Edward Snowden had mentioned in 2013, the NSA has been spying on, not only its own citizens in America, but has infiltrated its adversaries around the world through digital means for at least two decades!
According to Chinese officials, the digital intrusions date back to 2022. The accusation is more political and media driven leading up to…
Sadly, as author Annie Jacobsen in her book, we are extremely close to a Nuclear War.
What makes her account even more unsettling is the growing presence of generative artificial intelligence within the command structures of the world’s most powerful militaries. Many of the leading minds in AI and defense now concede a grim truth: the next great conflict may not be decided by human judgment or diplomacy, but by the cold, unblinking logic of the Ai machines we have created.
I read at least 5 hours and continue to write sporadically 2 hours throughout the day, everyday of the Government/School board/district lockout of teachers.
In the game of modern communication, Signal has mastered a fundamental law, appear simple and effortless but rock solid communication privacy.
The application moves fluidly across iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux, Mobile and desktop environments.
The interface is clean, resembling the mainstream messaging applications people already trust, yet stripped of the parasitic infrastructure: no subscription fees gnawing at your wallet, no advertisements fragmenting your attention, no selling your information and no spying on your communication.
So far most governments have been able to…
President Trump’s latest tariffs mark a dangerous escalation in what is, in effect, a new trade war with China. This isn’t simply an argument over taxes on goods, it’s a symptom of America’s deeper economic insecurity and political dysfunction.
Instead of building cooperative trade rules with supply chain management and logistics to address shared challenges like technology standards, rare resource scarcity, and generative artificial intelligence, the U.S. is reaching again for economic nationalism. Tariffs may sound tough, but they raise prices for all Americans, disrupt global supply…
“Suffering is the origin of consciousness.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.” - Nikolai Gogol
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy
“The superfluous man is a strange being, gifted with intelligence and sensitivity, yet paralyzed by his own awareness.” - Ivan Turgenev
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am reading one of my favourite authors, Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Consider Dostoevsky's Underground Man, an…
“Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics, one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference.” - Michael Ignatieff
“The importance of the term ‘genocide’ for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a word created in the wake of the Shoah in Europe to describe what happens when a people are targeted by a government for extermination …” - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
When the cameras finally turn away, when the hostages return to their families and Palestinian prisoners shuffle back…
“The meritocratic ideal has become not a remedy for inequality but a justification of it. The more we think of ourselves as self-made and self-sufficient, the harder it is to learn gratitude and humility.” - Michael J. Sandel
“The system is rigged not by conspiracy but by design. Its hoops are meant to be jumped through, its forms meant to weary. Those who remain are not always the best, just the most willing to stay.” - James Baldwin
“Tests of endurance, when mistaken for tests of excellence, exclude precisely those whose talents the world most needs.” - Malcolm Gladwell
The essence of…
“Israel’s occupation is not a conflict between two equal sides; it is the subjugation of one people by another. The refusal to recognize this truth is the moral failing of our time.” - Ilan Pappé
“The denial of Palestinian nationhood is not a policy failure — it is the policy itself.” - Edward Said
“The great crime of the powerful is not only the violence they commit, but the lies they tell to make that violence appear virtuous.” - Chris Hedges
“Those who control the narrative of violence also control the moral boundaries of the world’s empathy.” - Dr. Jeffrey Sachs
In a radical…
Resistance, radicalization, and the breakdown of social order are the tragically predictable results of generations of beatings, massacres, and oppression of any people, whether they are Muslim, Christian, or any other group. Due to severe intergenerational trauma and the memory of suffering, people who have experienced decades of injustice frequently react with insurgency, terrorism, or revolt. Violence breeds retaliation. A legacy of distrust and resentment is left behind as entire populations are uprooted, economies are destroyed, and institutions are undermined.
The families carry the…
“The worst crime is not to commit murder, but to see it and do nothing.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
“The law is often powerless against power. It can name crimes, but it cannot always stop them. In that sense, legality becomes a mask that hides moral catastrophe.” - Hannah Arendt
“War is organized murder, and nothing else.” - Harry Patch
“The difference between war and genocide is not the body count, but the purpose behind it. One seeks victory, the other annihilation.” - Samantha Power
In order to differentiate between war and genocide, the law, that neutral judge of human suffering, depends…
So, there's this really interesting landmark study, a two-year investigation that looked at sedentary individuals right around age 50+. And what the researchers did was they split these men and women into two groups: one group got a comprehensive, structured exercise program, and the control group? They did stretching. Just stretching.
Now, here's what you need to understand about what happens to our hearts as we age. The heart naturally undergoes this process where it shrinks, it actually gets smaller, and it becomes stiffer. And part of this is due to something called glycation.…