The Way I See it

Arnold Böcklin, Plague 1898, Kunstmuseum Basel Trump, as his niece, Mary Trump, has pointed out in her book, Too Much and Never Enough. how my Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, could have made himself an American hero by showing effective leadership through the Corona crisis. Instead, with his actions and inactions, he has produced a situation in which the virus has spun totally out of control. He has downplayed the seriousness of the virus, likening it to a flu

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 with the notion that history shapes the environment in which people act and react. There are moments, however, when individuals’ destinies can play a decisive role in determining historical outcomes. We may be at just such a juncture. The three strategically most important countries in the world – the countries with the most lethal weapons and

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 junio, casi toda Argentina, Uruguay y partes de Paraguay, Brasil y Chile quedaron en la oscuridad como resultado de un colapso del sistema argentino de redes interconectadas que produjo un corte masivo de energía eléctrica en la región. Por supuesto, se habían experimentado fallas eléctricas en el pasado. Esta es la primera vez, sin embargo, que

Photo of Buenos Aires on 16 June, available on website of Desdemona Despairs The Meltdown in the South American South On 16 June, almost all of Argentina, Uruguay, and parts of Paraguay, Brazil and Chile were plunged into darkness as the result of a system-wide shut-down of the interconnected parts of the five countries’ electricity grids. Of course, the region has experienced electrical breakdowns in the past. This is the first time, however, that it has had to contend with

Photo: Courtesy of Bing and Business Insider Recently, Canada has been challenged by three countries that were hitherto considered either to be an ally or a country that Canada could partner with economically, even if it did not share its approach to human and political rights. In 2018, US President Trump, arguing that Canadian steel and aluminium exports to the US posed a strategic threat, imposed tariffs of 25% and 10% respectively. After Ottawa’s criticism of its human rig

Photo de Bing et Business Insider Récemment, le Canada a été contesté par trois pays qui étaient jusqu'à présent considérés soit comme des alliés, soit comme despays avec lesquels le Canada pourrait s’associer économiquement, même s'il ne partageait pas son approche au sujet des droits politiques. En 2018, le président américain Trump, soutenant que les exportations canadiennes d'acier et d'aluminium vers les États-Unis constituaient une menace stratégique, a imposé des droit

Courtesy of Bing Russia and/or China Make a Move – or Don’t In the first part of this piece, I argued that there was a better than even chance why Russian and China might make serious strategic moves with international repercussions in their near-abroads in the next year or so. I also argued that there were important reasons why they might not. First, the reasons for the affirmative view. There are essentially three factors that militate in the direction of a coordinated or u

Courtesy of Bing #Russia-China Entente, #near abroad, #regional conflict, #Belarus, #Ukraine, #Taiwan, #North Korea, #Venezuela, #East China Sea, #Sea of Azov, #Putin, #Xi Jinping, #Trump, #Finland, #Vietnam, #Soviet-German Alliance, #Canada, #Australia. The Russian-Chinese “Entente” We humans are not very good at anticipating the future, but we understandably try. I think that there is a better than even chance that Russia and /or China will make serious strategic moves with