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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Terrorism and US Foreign Policy: Wrong Priorities, again
Once again the United States terrorist and foreign policy have the wrong priorities. This time it is how to protect the US homeland against ISIS. The rhetoric and military focus is on ISIS in […]
The Enemy Within
The US, the people and its congress, all fear Middle East migrants and a Parisian style attack with good reason. The bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq are fuelling widespread hatred […]
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 […]
China: Pivot to Syria
China is justifiably concerned about the US, its China bashing by the US congress and threats by a prospective US President, Romney to brand China a “currency manipulator“. More worrying and threatening […]
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, […]
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