Jacob Fraden

Jacob Fraden


  • Perpetual Russian Wars

    July 31, 2025

    Perpetual Russian Wars

    Russia’s real reason for fighting in Ukraine has nothing to do with any potential benefits it might achieve if it could even win that war.

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream About The Israel-Iran War

    June 22, 2025

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream About The Israel-Iran War

    It’s impossible to predict how Israel’s (so far) successful war against Iran will affect the future, but sometimes the answers lie in dreams.

  • The Trump Strategy for Ukraine

    February 21, 2025

    The Trump Strategy for Ukraine

    The important thing is to distinguish between Trump’s short-term goals and his long-term strategy.

  • The Brain Import That Saved The Soviet Union

    January 8, 2025

    The Brain Import That Saved The Soviet Union

    Having wiped out its intellectual class, not through wokism, but through brute force, Stalin did what America has been doing: imported new intellectuals.

  • November 27, 2023

    Curing Jews of Leftism

    American Jews will wise up, move away from a liberal worldview, and become more conservative. I will try to explain this seemingly unexpected prediction.    

  • October 21, 2023

    The Internal Boil Of Israel

    Israel’s ability to defend herself and her will to do so sometimes seem at odds.

  • January 31, 2023

    Ukraine and the Unlearned Lesson of History

    Defeating Russia, no matter how much it costs, is the only way to prevent a hot WW3, and without military and economic aid from the West and especially from the United States, this is impossible

  • November 11, 2022

    An ultimatum to Russia?

    Friday, from various independent sources in Russia, came interesting, albeit officially unconfirmed, information about a possibility to establish peace in Ukraine.

  • August 30, 2022

    The Mysterious Murder in Moscow of Darya Dugina

    Examining the theories about who was responsible for the car bombing of the duaghter of the man called "Putin's brain."

  • August 13, 2022

    What is In Store for Russia?

    For Putin it’s absolutely impossible to end the war — leaving Ukraine without victory means admitting defeat, which his own comrades-in-arms will not forgive. If Putin cannot end the war, then the war must end Putin.

  • June 16, 2022

    Why Are They Shooting?

    The first question is: Who is shooting?

  • May 1, 2022

    National Character and the Quality of Peoples

    Looking back at the histories of different nations, one must conclude that high cultural achievements have never been an antidote to evil.

  • March 17, 2022

    The twisted 'truth' on Ukraine

    It is a true heroic resistance now going on in Ukraine.

  • March 11, 2022

    Idiots of High Culture

    Works by the composers Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff are being shunned and performances by artists who had the misfortune to come from the USSR or Russia are being canceled.

  • March 4, 2022

    Cleanly Washed Russian Brains

    Megalomaniac tyrants with excellent propaganda capabilities always run the risk of believing their own lies.

  • January 28, 2022

    Why a War Over Ukraine is Unlikely

    What the people who really run Russia fear most.

  • January 16, 2022

    Mediocrity in power

    There is a famous saying: "Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” There is a corollary: Those who can’t teach, govern.

  • January 8, 2022

    Why are Caucasians Vanishing in TV Commercials?

    So why do advertisers ignore the long-standing rules of marketing, and to the detriment of their own financial interests, fill the media space with content that displaces and degrades its biggest market segment?