USA, Middle East and the New World
Recently, there has been talk of a rift between Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump claims that Netanyahu is manipulative and takes advantage of his →
Conflicts, disasters
Will Trump Return to America’s Usual War Policy?
Donald Trump ran on a promise to end the war in Ukraine, even boasting he could stop it within 24 hours. Most people understood he was exaggerating, but →
Will Trump continue the old American tradition of bombing third world countries?
Our great powers have many old traditions. Russia is known for throwing political challengers in jail, and the US is known for bombing the hell out of developing →
A divided Europe
Europe has undergone several major periods of division, the first of which is not on the map, but roughly follows the Ottoman line, and involves the division of →
Trump and the California fires
In the interview that Donald Trump did with Joe Rogan last autumn, the fire risk in California was mentioned, and what it could be due to. The President-elect →
Syria and the reluctant dictator
It was not long ago that Syria’s leader, Bashar al-Assad, was a favourite in the West, and perhaps even more so his wife, Asma, who was interviewed in →
An alternate Cold War
What if the Cold War (1947-1991) had instead been fought between the United States and Germany – and not the Soviet Union? It may be hard to believe, →
The potential guilt of Churchill
There has long been talk in academic circles about the possible culpability of the British in the Second World War, that the war became more brutal when British →
The Ukraine war and its consequences
The attempts to control and incite Ukraine against its huge neighbour, with the aim of dividing Russia into less manageable chunks, are wrong and dangerous in my view. →
