One of the important lessons in modern economics they never formally taught me when I was at university is that when faced with impending woe and imminent recession, the two most effective policy-measures a nation’s leaders will resort to while trying to dig themselves out of the hole they themselves in the first place dugContinue reading “Macroeconomics they never taught me at university : “The Zelensky Effect””
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A rare piece of irreverent yet so refreshingly truthful journalism
The essay below is a rollicking, bawdy read. It’s full of bar-room profanity typically of the American kind. Such a profusion of choicest four-letter expletives in what purports to be a dubious Op-Ed piece made even me blush a little … and I’m no prude when it comes to occasionally using unparliamentary “pardon myContinue reading “A rare piece of irreverent yet so refreshingly truthful journalism”
A Theatre of the Absurd in the world of Western Diplomacy
Two years into the War that has set Ukraine aflame and is nearly destroying the country, America and the EU — so-called NATO allies — now seem to be dancing around each other in a macabre embrace of death. Last week President Macron embarrassed President Biden by dropping a diplomatic grenade at a EU summitContinue reading “A Theatre of the Absurd in the world of Western Diplomacy”
What has AMERICA really gained from, or hope to gain, from the Ukraine War ? Does anyone in the world really know ?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/ukraine_an_expendable_country_may_soon_run_out_of_expendables.html Pretty grim and sad reading indeed is the above very well-informed analysis on the current status of the Ukraine war. If has been forwarded to me by very good friend and ex-colleague, Mr. Igor Afansiev, a Ukrainian national himself, who had been forced to leave last year his native city of Kiev, along withContinue reading “What has AMERICA really gained from, or hope to gain, from the Ukraine War ? Does anyone in the world really know ?”
My Sunday morning crystal-ball gazing into global geopolitics
Fareed Zakaria of CNN posed all the right questions to German Chancellor Schulz and got all the right sounding answers. But to me watching the video, the interview sounded pretty menacingly portentous for the future of the world in decades to come. On a quiet Sunday morning yesterday , I couldn’t thus help falling intoContinue reading “My Sunday morning crystal-ball gazing into global geopolitics”
Ukraine Crawling with operatives of CIA & Co…
Here is what a self-confessed “rogue journalist, poet and utopia prepper who publishes regularly, reports from Ukraine: Caitlin Johnstone: Ukraine Crawling with CIA & Co All is fair in love , war and intelligence work , I guess … If Russia can call its war in Ukraine as “special operations” then I suppose the USAContinue reading “Ukraine Crawling with operatives of CIA & Co…”
NATO, Russia, Sun Tsu, “Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon”
Looking at the map above one can easily understand why NATO certainly presents a clear even if not immediately present “existential threat” and danger to Russia . NATO shares a border today with Russia that will overnight double in length once Finland and Sweden join it formally anytime soon in a year from today! InContinue reading “NATO, Russia, Sun Tsu, “Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon””
Let me give it a shot at imitating CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and his “Here’s my Take”!
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-russia-cooperation-is-resilient-says-senior-chinese-diplomat-2022-04-19/ Some expert analysts of international and geopolitical/Geo-strategic affairs have been waxing eloquent in journals like The Foreign Affairs, the Economist, WSJ, The Atlantic etc. about how the Ukraine war has serendipitously succeeded in uniting the NATO alliance which was until recently beginning to fray and dissipate in Europe . No Western expert however caredContinue reading “Let me give it a shot at imitating CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and his “Here’s my Take”!”
Liz Truss’s Freudian Slip: Pax Brittanica through Pax Americana
After India’s Foreign Minister’s ferocious “in your face” comments to UK Foreign Secretary, Ms Liz Truss backed off a bit from starting to lecturing India on how it ought to to conduct its foreign policy towards the Ukraine crisis https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/uk-foreign-secy-meet-jaishankar-says-natural-to-look-for-deals-when-oil-prices-rise-101648753314794-amp.html But then Liz Truss through a revealing Freudian Slip spilt her guts. She couldn’t hideContinue reading “Liz Truss’s Freudian Slip: Pax Brittanica through Pax Americana”
The “Adi Guru” of American Presidents and the “Gangotri” of War Criminality
https://m.timesofindia.com/world/europe/biden-calls-putin-a-butcher-while-meeting-refugees/amp_articleshow/90463855.cms BIDEN CALLS PUTIN “A BUTCHER” This morning President Biden, after publicly calling President Putin a week ago as a “war criminal”, went a step further calling him a “butcher” who “for God’s sake, must not (be allowed to) rule Russia”. Biden seems to be losing mental stability … and rapidly too. This is notContinue reading “The “Adi Guru” of American Presidents and the “Gangotri” of War Criminality”