To the despair of State Department professionals (who are very professional indeed), the art and craft of US diplomacy have taken a very nasty knock
Day: August 20, 2018
Turkey’s Financial Crisis Raises Questions About China’s Debt-Driven Development Model
Financial injections by Qatar and possibly China may resolve Turkey’s immediate economic crisis, aggravated by a politics-driven trade war with the United States, but are
Afghan “Viceroy”? Trump Mulling Blackwater Founder Erik Prince’s Plan to Privatize Longest War
Alexander the Great couldn’t do it. Genghis Khan couldn’t do it. Neither could the British Empire nor NATO and the US military machine. But Erik Prince
Saudi Arabia: Wherever One Looks, Failure Abounds
A Saudi Arabian youth organization posted an image in its Twitter feed depicting a plane approaching the CN Tower (the tallest building in the world
Trump Just Triggered a New Financial Crisis. Here’s Why
Trump’s attack on the Turkish lira, combined with recent Federal Reserve moves to choke off dollar supply, is pushing the world towards a re-run of
Dodik’s Support of Vucic’s Kosovo Partition Plan Is Self-Interested
The President of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska recently signaled his support for Vucic’s plan to partition Kosovo, but while he may try to clothe his arguments
The Discarded Wisdom of America’s Founders
A good example of the discarded wisdom of America’s Founders is George Washington’s Farewell Address to the nation, delivered by him not orally but instead solely
Jews, Logic and Corbyn
According to the Transitive Axiom if A=B and B=C then A = C (If any two items are equal to the same third item then the
