Revolutions usually lead to misery, even if they are sometimes celebrated afterwards. The most famous of them all is the French Revolution (1789), which ended in a veritable bloodbath, social and cultural suicide, and the eventual →
The nuclear doctrine
Most people agree that a full-scale nuclear war is unwinnable. It is probably impossible to shoot down every nuclear-armed missile aimed at your country. And the more nuclear weapons the enemy has at its disposal, the →
The future of Europe – an outdoor museum for Americans and Asians?
Our cities are beautiful and our cultural heritage is rich, but the spirit of progress and innovation is fading. The spark that has been burning for over 500 years is flickering, and soon there will be →
Sanctions, sanctions, sanctions
Western sanctions against Russia have worked badly, really poorly if we are honest, it may even be that they have made the country richer. How can it have gone so wrong? Isn’t the idea of sanctions →
More questions than answers about Biden’s resignation
President Joe Biden dropping out of the presidential race was expected, as his ageing became all too apparent, especially during the debate against Trump. But the question is, what happens now? Kamala Harris taking over as →
Why call critics populists, Islamophobes, homophobes or racists?
The climate of political debate in the Western world has long been paralysed by the lack of real arguments and objective reasoning. Instead, people sit around and call each other names, much like they do in →
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump
A shooter on a rooftop near Trump’s podium, several people saw the perpetrator and reported the incident to police on the scene, but no one reacted until five shots were fired. One of them grazed the →
Orcs bomb hospitals and kill children
A children’s hospital in Kiev was hit by a missile a few days ago, and the collective Western media sphere decided in about 30 minutes that it was a Russian missile, and that it was deliberate, →
The left wanders through Europe like a zombie
Some thinkers see both world wars as a protracted struggle against socialism. And the various fascist groupings can be interpreted as an extreme backlash. The struggle continued even during the Cold War, and it did not →
