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La Primavera de Praga, medio siglo después
Foto del periódico ruso Kommersant en el quincuagésimo aniversario de la invasión a Checoslovaquia por el Pacto de Varsovia. (este blog...
Aug 26, 2018
Towards Yalta Two
1024px-Yalta_Conference_(Churchill,_Roosevelt,_Stalin)_(B&W) This blog was posted on the CDA-Institute at https://cdainstitute.ca/law-tow...
Aug 1, 2018
Global Futures and their Underlying Drivers
(The view of the globe is from The Great Globe Galley.) On June 21 2018, the TopLink site of the Word Economic Forum posted a sightly...
Mar 22, 2018
Putin’s Polling Numbers – and what they may say about Russia’s future
On 18 March, Vladimir Putin will almost certainly be elected to his fourth term as President of the Russian Federation. If we include his...
Mar 11, 2018
North Korea 101
(With my apologies to the person who produced this juxtaposition – I have lost the link and cannot credit you.) This post appeared on the...
Feb 11, 2018
On the Emerging American Autocracy
The victory of senatorial candidate Doug Jones in Alabama on 12 December over a racist bigot, pedophile and religious zealot, supported...
Dec 18, 2017
The Almost Perfect Ploy: how to understand the accelerated enhancement of the North Korean threat: P
This article was posted on the website of the Canadian Defence Association Institute on 19 September 2018. Photocredit: Time Magazine 20...
Sep 27, 2017
The Almost Perfect Ploy: how to understand the accelerated enhancement of the North Korean threat: P
Photo credit: Daily Telegraph, 31 August 2017. This blog was posted on the website of the Canadian Defence Association Institute on 14...
Sep 26, 2017
Descent into Dictatorship?
America’s descent into chaos moved into a higher gear this past week. It will take a lot of civil courage on the part of a lot of...
Aug 17, 2017
North Korea: rethinking the threat, one week on
The situation is indeed serious, but don’t expect Kim Jong-un to go over the strategic edge. (This blog appeared on the website of...
Aug 16, 2017
President Trump in Europe: how to discredit and dismantle an Alliance
At the G20 Summit that took place in Hamburg on 7-8 July, Presidents Putin and Trump met on at least three occasions. Two of them were...
Aug 3, 2017
NORTH KOREA – HIGH TIME TO GET REAL, PART I
On America’s Independence Day, North Korea successfully launched a missile that some experts assert can hit targets as far away as...
Jul 31, 2017
NORTH KOREA – HIGH TIME TO GET REAL, PART II
So for Kim Jung-un, or Kim the Third as I have called him, the support for his regime from Beijing and Moscow is absolutely...
Jul 20, 2017
The Gathering Storm
With Donald Trump now sworn in as the American President and Commander–in-Chief, here are some thoughts on where the world may be headed....
Jan 23, 2017
Part 2 — The Russo-​American Big Energy Orgy: Bringing Big Energy Back
In the first part of this post, I argued that one of the more important back stories of the 2016 US elections was a Russian-​American...
Jan 13, 2017
Part 1 — The Russian-​American Big Energy Orgy: Big Energy against the Backdrop of the US Elections
Much of the post-​election chatter in the United States has focused on the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and...
Jan 12, 2017
Donald and Adolf
Trump and Hitler have much more than hair issues in common. Of course, the America of 2016 is not the Germany of 1933, and Donald Trump...
Oct 31, 2016
Brexit or Bremain: a long and winding road ahead?
The partisans in favour of the UK leaving the European Union (EU) prevailed with almost 52 percent of the votes cast in the referendum on...
Sep 29, 2016
Putin and Erdogan Do a Deal (sort of)
On 15 August, the Russian and Turkish Presidents met in St Petersburg. This was their first encounter since their two countries’...
Aug 25, 2016
Trump’s Plan B: From demagoguery to violence
At the time of writing, it looks likely that Trump will not win the US presidential election. His numbers are gravitating around 40...
Aug 16, 2016
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