Wednesday, 31 August 2022

To flourish Russia needed a Gorbachev dynasty. Instead it got Putin

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All the glowing tributes to the life of Mikhail Gorbachev who has died at the age of 91 cannot hide the fact that despite his famous perestr...
Tuesday, 30 August 2022

Putin and Iran getting to be too close for comfort

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Ok the US has lined itself up with some pretty dubious leaders in the past because it was politically and/or strategically prudent, or at le...
Monday, 29 August 2022

Keeeeeeep dancing Sanna Marin, Finland needs you

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On a lighter note, all this fuss about the Finnish prime minister, 36-year-old Sanna Marin, caught dancing her socks off at a rave party! Fi...
Sunday, 28 August 2022

What if the war in Ukraine is still going on in 2024?

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The German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock thinks the war in Ukraine could go on for years. She is probably right but how depressing is t...
Saturday, 27 August 2022

Trump will need brilliant lawyers to avoid a criminal charge

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The more that emerges from the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago the more likely it seems that Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, will ...
Friday, 26 August 2022

Pentagon's new strategy to reduce civilian casualties

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All US top military commanders are to be assigned “civilian protection officers” to advise on the dangers of collateral damage before any op...
Thursday, 25 August 2022

The power game between the US and China in South China Sea

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The power game between Beijing and Washington in the South China Sea has now changed so dramatically that even the US, with all of its comba...