Another AI generated synthesis – I shudder at the implications – in this return, in the context of US thuggery in the Caribbean, to Yanis Varoufakis. This crisp and powerful analysis of the stakes and implications, delivered in a shade … Read More »
China decisively played the rare-earth card. America is too dependent, too vulnerable. Ultimately, it had to compromise. But this raises the deeper question: why did the U.S. walk willingly into a self-made trap? The answer lies in its deep-rooted addiction … Read More »
My December 5 post – Venezuela: follow through or dial down – weighed competing factors before concluding that America’s ugly show of force in the Caribbean will likely end in a climb-down testing to the limit its narrative managers’ ability … Read More »
Commenting on my post of November 7, Let’s talk about Venezuela, reader Jams O’Donnell cited Military Watch on the possibility that Russia: … will introduce the US to their own Ukraine on their own doorstep. As well as recently signing … Read More »
My posts on America’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine are legion. All make the irrefutable case that a dying US empire, not “Putin’s aggression”, is the conflict’s root and ongoing cause. The most decisive rebuttal of the ‘Putin’s war’ … Read More »
When I ponder on liberalism at its best (not that I spend a heap of time doing any such thing) I can think of no finer example than Jeffrey Sachs. Like his friend John Mearsheimer – featured in my last … Read More »
On a tip off from reader Nick Hefferman, a few posts back, I’m reading Aaron Good’s American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. It does what it says on the tin – or, six chapters in, holds out every promise … Read More »
Looking northeast from Swirl Hawse yesterday. Behind and far below lie Levers Water and Coniston’s long exhausted copper mines. To the left the Tilberthwaite Fells, cleaved from Cold Pike and Pike of Bliscoe by unseen Wrynose Pass. On the horizon … Read More »
I concluded Roads to WW3 Part 4: ‘Only connect’ with an observation applicable to all posts in this series: none of earth’s plethora of flash points and weeping sores should be be viewed in isolation. Not Ukraine, not the cancer … Read More »
Roll over Sun Tsu, and tell von Clausewitz the news! Jeffrey Sachs yesterday, in a twenty-two minute dialogue with Danny Haiphong, excoriates Team Trump and Europe’s quislings in equal measure. Starting with this week’s flip-flop on Ukraine – “not tactics … Read More »