Europe as a third major power, with France as the leading nation
Germany is shutting down its last reactors and focusing on coal power instead. The shift is a result of pressure from environmentalists. One might question the logic of →
Geopolitics
A narrow window of opportunity – the agony of the American Empire, and the world that caught up with it
Others have said it better than me, but it bears repeating. The US had a narrow window of opportunity to shape the world at the turn of the →
A divided America
I have discussed the concept of secession several times, it is about regions that break away from a state formation to become independent, or to join another state. →
Great Powers 2050
What is happening today in Ukraine is seen by some as a major reshaping of power structures in the world. The misguided sanctions against Russia have exposed the →
Degeneration, or merely a return to a historical normal?
Many see the conflict in eastern Ukraine as an outright Russian occupation, ignoring the possible right of ethnic Russian regions to self-rule or secession. Ukraine is seen as →
The First and Second Anglo Empire
The Angles were a North Germanic people who lived somewhere between present-day Denmark and Germany, and the origin of the name has often been associated with fishing or →
The new Europe
By now, most people have realized that the EU is a colossal failure. We sit and wait for the euro to crash, and for the EU to land →
Winter is coming. Will Swedes become climate refugees in the next millennium?
Our current geological epoch is called the Holocene, and it began about 11,700 years ago. The Holocene is an interglacial, i.e. a warm period between the ice ages. →
