The increasing Sino-Russian Symbiosis one of the most significant current geopolitical developments is seemingly ignored by both the US mass media and the US State Department whose pronouncements focus separately on Russophobia […]
Weekend Deliberations; Bojo, Brexit, Liberal Democracy
Now, with Boris Johnson, affectionately and not, known as Bojo, at the helm, whereto the UK? It certainly looks to be a rocky road ahead. The press is full of absurd speculation, […]
Trump’s Global Hotspots
I began writing this blog post about global hotspots three weeks ago assuming Hillary Clinton would be the next president of the United States. The Global Hotspots remain the same but how […]
Machinocene, the Epoch of Artificial Inteligence – the US and China
Recently it was proposed that the Holocene geological epoch in which we have been living for the last 11,000 years be dubbed the Anthropocene epoch, one dominated by humans. But a more […]
China, Russia, the US and The Thucydides Trap
Greek history and Thucydides’s Peloponnesian Wars in the 4th century BCE still have relevance in the 21st century. Graham Allison, Harvard political scientist and professor, coined the term The Thucydides Trap, to the […]
Post November Apocalypse?
Many of my recent blog posts have focused on the likely post November foreign policy positions of the respective candidates but in view of the polarised electorate, especially on the Right and […]
A March to War?
Are we now on a march to war? What the US avoided during the Cold War is now looking like a distinct possibility, namely a war with Russia and perhaps, China. The […]
Dr. Strangelove, a Remake, 2016 Version
In the movie, Dr. Strangelove: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb a character, the insane US Air Force General Jack the Ripper, thinks the Russians are conspiring […]
Clinton Foreign Policy, the Witches’ Song
The Clinton foreign policy recalls the opening lines of The Witches’ Song in Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the […]
The United States versus The United States
US Foreign policy does seem to be designed to work against US interests everywhere in every way. Examples that spring to mind are Syria and the US relations with China and Russia. […]
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