Hendrix's Eccentric Commentary

Eccentric and Idiosyncratic Commentary on Current and Military Affairs

Category: Current Affairs

  • If Trump was President in 1940

    2/28/2025 If Trump had been president in 1940: “Winston, Germany didn’t invade Poland, you did. We’ve spent too much money, and you haven’t said thank you enough. Hitler is offering…


  • European Self-Defense

    2//24/2025 Donald Trump and MAGAworld have been screaming their heads off that Europe and NATO are dependent on the Unites States for their defense, and have not been spending enough…


  • I am the State

    2/24/2025 Donald Trump has already quoted Napoleon, declaring that “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Up next? Perhaps Louis XIV “L’etat c’est moi?”


  • Crisis or Coup

    2/21/2025 Purge among the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior military leadership. When do we stop talking about being on the verge of a constitutional crisis and admit we…


  • A True Story

    2/20/2025 I have been seeing a nephrologist who is attempting to treat my hypertension and kidney disease.  As part of the attempt to control my blood pressure the doctor prescribed…


  • Telemarketers in Hell

    2/18/2025 Dante need to be reincarnated so that he can devise another circle of Hell specifically for telemarketers.


  • The 100 Days

    2/17/2025 I am awestruck:  I thought it would take Trump a couple of years to destroy the United States, but Trump has already made an impressive start in his first…


  • Peace in our Time

    2/13/2025 Apparently Donald Trump, President of the United States and Vladimir Putin, President of Russia are to meet and end the war in Ukraine. Ukraine is not invited.  I would…


  • Evaluating Trump and Musk

    2/12/2025 There is an old story, well known and beloved by most in the military and by military historians, and almost certainly legendary, that goes like this: Supposedly, the old…


  • Constitutional Moment

    2//9/2025 Big Thought of the Moment: We are not, as Senator Andy Kim, Democrat of New Jersey, has suggest, “on the cusp of a Constitutional crisis.” It is rather that…


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