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11-17 May 2023

May 17, 2023
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Once again, a somewhat-weekly-ish annotated link post of everything I have written lately. I am flying to New York tomorrow to bury a long lost relative this weekend, so posting will be spotty until next Monday.

I am working on a short story to publish here behind a subscriber-only paywall in June.

On Thursday 11 May, I wrote this paywalled article about the World War II bombing campaign against the Ploesti oil refineries. My great uncle John Thomas was lost on the first major attempt. Every man who flew in Operation Tidal Wave received the Distinguished Flying Cross just for getting on the plane. The target was deemed so important that if no one had come home again, its total destruction was a fair trade for their lives.

Polemology Positions
Bombing Hitler's Gas Station: A Brief History
Winston Churchill called Ploesti “the taproot of German might” and Stalin was of similar mind. The decision in Washington to target Ploesti was therefore always political, a gift to allies who had been engaged with German armies well before American armies could arrive to make a difference. These politics were practical, however, for the strategic value of the target was obvious to everyone involved. Ploesti (pronounced…
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16 days ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

On Thursday night I got some things off my chest about Tidal Wave and my uncle John in a Twitter space. I downloaded it and posted it as a podcast here.

Polemology Positions
My Own Personal Ploesti
Listen now (68 min) | Last night I held an impromptu Twitter space to air out what has been on my mind about the Ploesti bombing campaign and my great uncle, John Thomas, who was lost in Operation Tidal Wave, and has now returned home to his family after 80 years. Yesterday I published this paywalled post about the campaign to deny the Third Reich a steady supply of fuel fro…
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15 days ago · Matt Osborne

On Friday morning I wrote up my impressions of the vice president after a viral video clip made the rounds.

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What Is Wrong With Kamala Harris?
Everything is in context! My mother used to, she would give us a hard time, sometimes, and she would say to us, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?’” [Laughs] “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you…
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15 days ago · Matt Osborne

Then I published this piece, weeks in the making, about current American religious history.

The Distance
The Gendered Souls Of Capitalist Consumerism
Pedro Gonzalez, an associate editor at Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, writes in a recent white paper of “two motives driving the normalization of transgenderism: ideology and interest, or those who are true believers and those who merely see transgenderism as an avenue for increased profit and power…
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15 days ago · 6 likes · 3 comments · Matt Osborne

On Saturday the 13th, I wrote an update on the situation at Bakhmut and the ominous direction of Russian politics.

Polemology Positions
The Opera Curtain Opens At Bakhmut
The overture fades. The curtain is opening. Behold the opera of annihilation, slowly brought into view. Two long battles for Bakhmut ended in Russian failure over nearly a year. The third is turning into a Ukrainian victory. Disciplined attacks with combined infantry, armor, artillery, and command/control…
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14 days ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

On Monday I published this headline about a protest being planned to hold the American Civil Liberties Union accountable for their bizarre misogyny.

The Distance
These Women Invite You To Hold The American Civil Liberties Union Accountable
As the old progressive chant goes, “this is what democracy looks like.” The pendulum is swinging. Americans will not meekly accept the totalitarian hand of “gender identity” activists setting every agenda under the blinkered, false rubric of a freedom and justice movement…
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12 days ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

On Tuesday, I expressed how I truly feel about something I used to love.

The Distance
The ACLU Is A Homophobic Hate Organization
It was a warm night on Susan’s front porch. She was an organizer for the National Organization for Women and probably a lesbian, though I never asked. My parents were inside hobnobbing with the other adults. I was with the kids, which is to say I was the youngest at 15, with the other people on that porch being cigarette smokers of various ages. I was n…
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11 days ago · 22 likes · Matt Osborne

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