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 […]
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 […]
The Anglosphere’s Neo-McCarthyites and Mimetic Animosity
The rise and rhetoric of the Neo McCarthyites is now widespread in both the USA and its sycophant in Europe, the UK. Hardly a day passes without a smear on Russia […]
The US, the UK and Brexit
Obama’s foray into Europe lecturing, hectoring and threatening the citizens of the UK to remain in the EU invited the deserved scorn he received by the Eurosceptics. With the threat that the […]
Postscript 3, US Foreign Policy Post 2016 Elections
This Postscript offers little dramatic change to previous ones in content, merely an affirmation of the foreign policy of the two parties. While a presidential nominee for the Democrats seems to be edging […]
Syria, The 21st Century Great Game
The Great Game once described the battle between the British and Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia in the 1800s. Today’s Syrian Great Game has multiple players who could develop the cold […]
Postscript 1, US Foreign Policy, Post 2016 Elections
This is Postscript to the earlier blog post Foreign Policy Post Elections 2016. As I wrote in that post, there will be updates with candidates added or subtracted as the quadrennial circus […]
Korean Option Repeated
The recent events in North Korea call to mind my post in November 2010 when the US, South Korea and Japan were in such a lather. Much of what I wrote then bears […]
The Case for US Isolationism
Isolationism: The policy of isolating one’s country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, seeking to devote the entire efforts of […]
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