Perhaps the title of this blog post should be the “future” wars, ones in addition to the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the US presence officially winds down in Iraq […]
Keystone Cops Foreign Policy
US Foreign Policy has become synonymous with wishful thinking, and reactive planning that usually redounds on the US with unexpected and unpleasant consequences. This blog post is a follow on to the […]
Syria a.k.a. Iraq
There was an excellent article outlining two possible scenarios for Syria on AP mobile news last week, neither of them good. To quote: “One scenario: a bloodbath as Syria’s majority Sunni population, […]
Israel-Iran Update
I refer to my blog of May 29, Election Game Changers, in which I wrote about the possibility of an Israeli (or US sanctioned) strike on Iran. Since then both Romney and […]
Ongoing Arab Spring II
This blog can best be summarised at the outset with lines by the witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth……. “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble” I last wrote […]
Geopolitcal Geology
It occurred to me that our earth’s historical and evolving geology bears great resemblance to the changing global geopolitical alignment. Like geological tectonic plates, geopolitical ones are constantly moving, evolving and being […]
India, the myth
The US, looking for a counter balance to China’s growing influence in the Pacific and Asia has lavished both praise and nuclear gifts on India. In 2008 the US closed a deal […]
Egypt: Scepticism not Euphoria
Although the Brotherhood candidate, Morsi, was declared the winner in the Presidential run-off, the battle for control of the country is far from decided. The military still holds the reins of power […]
Egypt’s Arab Spring, R.I.P.?
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. The end of the Egyptian revolution and very likely the beginning of more bloodshed and repression, almost a copycat script from much maligned Syria. […]
Modern Greece, today’s Chimera.
Chimera, a product of Greek mythology was a fire-breathing monster with a lion’s head, a goat’s body and a serpent’s tail, daughter of Typhon, a monster with a hundred heads that also […]
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