Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 62

Russia Seeks ‘Asymmetrical’ Response for Strike on Its Nuclear Assets

There is some confusion over Russia’s response to the June 1/2 attacks on railway infrastructure and its strategic nuclear forces.

To recap:

On Saturday/Sunday Ukrainian diversion groups used explosives to destroy two Russian railroad bridges in the Kursk and Bryansk region. These bridges were located some 50 kilometer north of the Sumy region frontline. The hits will impact, if only for a short time, the railway bound supply of Russian forces north of Sumy.

One of the bridge explosions destroye...

Trap Door Spider

I regularly see an armed government worker – some people still bound by their government school conditioning would use the word “policeman” – who likes to hide by the side of an old building up the road from my house; he snugs his vehicle up against the side of the old building and in the shade of a big tree so that it is very hard to see him.

He sits there quietly, like one of those trap door spiders that hides in a little burrow so its prey cannot see it, waiting for the prey to get close a . ...

Is Putin’s Soft Approach Bringing War in its Train?

“If Mr. Putin genuinely wants to save the lives of his soldiers and of his civilians then he should end the war conclusively and dramatically right now. This, I believe, is well within his power if he has the will and the vision to act as the situation requires.” — Gilbert Doctorow

I am pleased to see Gilbert Doctorow’s concurrence with my longstanding position that the greatest threat to peace is Putin’s reluctance to bring the conflict in Ukraine to a quick decisive end. Putin’s ongoing war is...

Trump Threatens To Bomb Iran to Smithereens for ‘Playing by the Rules’

“If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.” President Donald Trump, NBC News Interview, March 30, 2025

President Donald Trump is threatening to launch air strikes on Iran for activities that are approved under the terms of Iran’s treaty obligations. This is not a matter on which there should be any debate. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) explicitly grants all parties, including Iran, the “inal...

Democracy Is the Ideal Distraction

In the days of yore, there were kings. Everybody could agree to hate the king because he was rich and well-fed, when most of his minions were not.

Then, a more effective system was invented: democracy. Its originators had in mind a system whereby the populace could choose their leader from amongst themselves – thereby gaining a leader who understood them and represented them.

In short order, those amongst the populace who wished to rule found a way to game the new system in a way that would allo...

How Marxists Erase Human Will and Agency

As the language of Marxism becomes increasingly disguised in moralistic slogans such as “social justice” and “inclusiveness,” many people fail to recognize Marxist theories when they encounter them. They expect theories derived from Marxism to be littered with red flag phrases like “dialectical materialism” or “class conflict,” which would be the dead giveaway that they are dealing with Marxist interpretations. In the absence of such phrases, they deny that social justice theories are Marxist at...

Whatever Happened to the Holy Ghost?

Translation is a tricky thing, especially if you’re translating a word that has a seemingly direct equivalent in English. Sometimes the equivalent translation fits, sometimes it doesn’t. Often, it’s a mixed bag. That brings me to the Third Person of the Trinity.

I don’t know when and why the Latin phrase Sanctus Spiritus switched from being translated as “Holy Ghost” to “Holy Spirit.” I can understand the translation of “spirit.” You can see it in the word spiritus, and it is sensible to modern ...

Donald Trump Decouples the United States From the European Union

Contrary to what we thought in 1991, the fall of the “American Empire” will not resemble that of the USSR. Washington’s Western European allies intend to perpetuate it, with or without their leader. It follows that President Donald Trump will abandon them in the cold.
After decoupling the United States from the “revisionist Zionists” in power in Israel, President Trump is decoupling it from NATO and the European Union: he no longer wants his country to have anything to do with the “American Empir...

Can Trump and Musk Make Up?

Last week’s dramatic blowout between President Trump and his one-time top collaborator Elon Musk was shocking yet predictable. According to media reports, a cold war had been brewing between Musk’s people and Trump’s appointees and it was bound to break out into the open. It was only a matter of time.

On the campaign trail, Musk provided much energy and helped ramp up enthusiasm for Donald Trump. His support for Trump made him a lightning rod for Trump-haters and he saw his personal wealth take ...

The Camp of the Saints

I have never understood why rioters, protestors, whatever you want to call them, burn people’s cars.  Insurance seldom covers  such events.  Violent protests harm innocents.

I also don’t understand why the National Guard is called out as they are not permitted to use their weapons.  Try to imagine the National Guard using deadly force to break up looting and burning of property.  In America the defense of property and livelihood plays second fiddle to the lives of criminals.  Property can be pro...