As outlined in Carden’s brief letter there is much to like in the democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s proposed foreign policy: end endless wars, climate change, a tougher stance on Israel but […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 2, US Foreign Policy Post 2016 elections
This, the second postscript to US Foreign Policy Post 2016 Election underscores how unprepared, misdirected and dangerous US foreign Policy will be following the November 2016 elections. Democrats Clinton continues to wrap herself […]
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 […]
US Foreign Policy, Post 2016 Elections
Looking ahead to post 2016 US elections it would be worthwhile to game the foreign policy scenarios, a Republican win with either Cruz or Trump; a Democrat victory with Clinton or […]
Irrational Euro anti-Terror Strategy
Hollande and the West and ISIL Hollande is making all sorts of bellicose noises about responding to the Islamic declaration of war with one of his own. Both he and the US […]
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