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The Three Dictateers
https://images.app.goo.gl/htpzw3n3u6QfwsoR9 I do not easily subscribe to the idea that men/women make history. I am much more at home...
Jan 29, 2020


Ciber-Especulación
Foto de Buenos Aires el 16 de junio, disponible en la página web de Desdémona Despairs. El “apagón” en el sur de Sudamérica El 16 de...
Aug 8, 2019


Cyber-Speculation
Photo of Buenos Aires on 16 June, available on website of Desdemona Despairs The Meltdown in the South American South On 16 June, almost...
Jul 9, 2019


¡Como No Derrocar a un Dictador!
Foto: Los presidentes de Cuba y de Venezuela, Miguel Díaz-Canel y Nicolás Maduro (Cortesía de Nuestro País) Es bastante claro, por ahora,...
Jun 10, 2019


On Dumping a Dictator
The Cuban and Venezuelan-Presidents, Miguel Díaz-Canel y Nicolás Maduro (courtesy of NUESTRO PAÍS) It is fairly clear now that despite...
May 30, 2019


Defending Canada in a Changing Strategic Environment
Photo: Courtesy of Bing and Business Insider Recently, Canada has been challenged by three countries that were hitherto considered either...
Mar 31, 2019


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


NATO Defence Spending in Perspective
(A link to this article was provided in the Newsletter of the Canadian Association of Defence Organizations on 6 July:...
Jul 6, 2018


What if (almost all) the Experts on North Korea have Got it Wrong?
(An earlier version of this draft was posted on the website of the Canadian Defence Association Institute on 15 May 2018 at...
Jun 9, 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


The Halloween Attack on the Hudson River Bike Path – and its broader implications
Details are gradually emerging about the terrorist attack carried out on theHudson River Bike Path on 31 October. The perpetrator,...
Nov 4, 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
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