Ottoman America

Conquest's Third Law & The United States's Self-Sabotage

Mehmed V, penultimate Ottoman sultan, reigned 1909-18

Can you quite believe this weirdness with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin? Guy was laid out in intensive care for days, and nobody bothered to tell the president. This, in a time when US troops are under daily attack. The head of the Joint Chiefs knew about it on January 2, a day after Austin went i…