Geopolitics
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Once upon a time, in a land far away, a land of which few had even heard, there lived a jester. Some people from other lands one day told this jester he was really a king. They gave him all the things that a king has – billions of dollars, an army and audiences with…
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Did you know that President Trump is not a maverick and is simply returning the United States to the foreign policy of its founding fathers? Thomas Jefferson, in his inaugural address of 1801, defined US foreign policy as “peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none.” In his Farewell Address,…
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Did you know that President Trump is cancelling the New World Order the US proclaimed in the 1990s – starting with the last and most disastrous of its projects, the advance into the Ukraine? President Trump and his revolutionary band (Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz, Steve Witkoff, General Kellogg and Pete Hegseth) have hit the ground…
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The US president told the Western world’s press in Washington on February 4 that the American plan for Gaza is to permanently remove all Palestinians from the territory: “I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza. I think that Gaza has been very unlucky for them. They’ve lived like hell.” Asked for clarification…
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According to those who want Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian, President Trump has threatened President Putin: make a deal or else! More likely this is a piece of political theatrics that the Russian President understands well and will respond to positively, knowing what it is all about. This is what Trump actually said,…
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There was an informative interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday 18 January with the senior Middle East correspondent Jeremy Bowen. It took place on the eve of the ceasefire in Gaza. Informative interviews are a rarity regarding events in Gaza because the senior management of the BBC have kept a tight muzzle…
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When “ethnic cleansing” is mentioned in the West in relation to the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh it invariably is in connection with the Armenian population who voluntarily left the region in late 2023. This was three years after the Second Karabakh war of 2020 had resulted in an Azerbaijani liberation of most of its national…
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President Bashar al Assad has gone, but the problem of governing the state of Syria remains. The Western media (and its alternatives in the Western alt-media) have described the fall of President Assad as an “overthrowing.” It was nothing of the sort. Assad was not overthrown. He was, in fact, fired. The circumstances of the…
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The attacks on the Christmas market in Germany and the festivities in New Orleans has brought the subject of discontent Muslims in the West to the forefront once again. In the German case the discontent Muslim seems to have been an anti-Islamic Muslim, originally from that most Islamic of states, Saudi Arabia, who rejected Islam…
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The conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East and most of the mess in Syria and the general region is a direct product of Britain’s Great War on the Ottoman Empire. Britain, after declaring war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, as part of the Great War taken on against Germany, expected…
