Mid the Week

Good midweek, Stroock's Books people. 

Today we sojourn across the dread Hudson River for lunch with our father. 

Stroock digital notes...Look at us, blog post 5990. Post 6000 closing in [We're doing this again?-Ed] We are.... Book sales have seen three separate spikes this week. No idea why. Substack?...Mark Steyn notes that our old home, Gab, is leaving Great Britain. We looked and saw we've done a few posts on Gab this year but have largely stayed away. No reason other than we just get better results on Substack. 

New Jersey beat: With the deluge of rain we've had the last week, New Jersey reservoirs are filling. Our local Round Valley/Spruce Run reservoir is now over 85 % full about 5 percentage points off its historic average. 

We have asked in several places online if Winston Churchill was great. No one says no, but no one can answer why he was great. He saved western civilization, goes the response. But how? We also point to a devastated empire in 1945 that would soon fall away. Also John Cleese has argued that London is no longer and English city. We don't like much of what we see in Britain lately. See, for example, the Steyn post above.

Middle East notes...Turkey encroaches into Syria which is worrisome. The next war?...The president has informed Jerusalem that he intents to withdraw troops from Syria. Good...Administration messaging on Iran negotiations is all over the place. One minute special envoy Steve Witkoff is talking about uranium enrichment levels, the next minute press secretary Karoline Leavitt is saying Iran can never have the bomb...American B-2s are dropping 30,000 pound bunker busters on the Houthi. A warmup? This blog is not impressed with Witkoff....Washington is fast tracking munitions deliveries to Israel...

DOGE report: we read through the Thatcher's War interlude chapter and did some fixing up. We may have to add another chapter, the Armagh War. Why Not? This would also give us the opportunity to show more of the post-war world. World War 1990 Thatcher's War is going to be a big book which pleases nobody and pisses off everyone. 

The War Night hardcopy is uploaded and ready to go. We should have the kindle version this week. We are nervous AF.