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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
The Prague Spring Half a Century on
photo from the Russian newspaper Kommersant on the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia (This blog was...
Aug 20, 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
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 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 – 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
Defence Spending Challenges
The election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States has elevated the issue of defence spending performance to a...
Apr 16, 2017
The Next Terrorist Attack on the United States?
Robert Giroux / Getty Images / Via gettyimages.com The likelihood of a serious terrorist attack on the US or its assets abroad has...
Mar 7, 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
Canada and the US Election
While Canadians do not have a vote on 8 November, you could be forgiven for believing that they do. Like in the States, this is almost...
Nov 4, 2016
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