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I asked the Chinese AI Agent Genspark (rival of Manus AI) to tell me about myself. I was impressed with its insights. This is what it came up with: Dr. Pat WalshIndependent Historian, Political Commentator, and Author specializing in Irish history, British imperialism, and geopolitical analysisđź“š Independent Scholar🎯 Critical Historian✍️ Prolific Author🌍 Geopolitical Analyst🇮🇪 Irish…
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On 24th April each year Yerevan issues its standard message commemorating the “Armenian Genocide” of 1915. This is usually a matter of routine. But not this year. The statement issued by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has led to him being called a “denialist” by the Armenian diaspora and the Genocide industry in the US and…
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The World has entered a period of great flux. Thirty years ago it was in such a period after the collapse of the Soviet Union. That event came about with great suddenness, despite signs being there that something was going to happen of a fundamental nature. Likewise, today. In the late 1980s Soviet leaders and…
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Britain is today enthusiastically bombing Yemen in the slipstream of the US Airforce. A Yemeni resistance movement has had the temerity to obstruct and deter international shipping from its convenient route through the Red Sea, threatening inflation on consumers in the West. The Houthis demand is that 2 million Palestinian civilians are supplied with the…
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The strategic reason for the alliance between British Imperialism and the Zionist Movement that was to lead to the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 lay in the British desire to enlist the support of International Jewry in the Great War effort against Germany, and then to manoeuvre itself into control of Palestine, through the use…
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The President of the Armenian “Republic of Artsakh” Samvel Shakhramanyan signed a document on 28 September which decreed the dissolution of all “state institutions and organisations” by January 1 2024. This effectively ending the existence of “Artsakh” and signalled the absorption of the population as full and equal citizens into the Republic of Azerbaijan. What…
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29 October marks the Centenary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey/Turkiye, in 1923. The Treaty of Lausanne of 24 July 1923 recognised the sovereignty of the Turkish Republic established in defeating the Treaty of Sevres which the Western Powers had sought to impose on the Turks in the course of the Great War.…
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“Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy – or of a collective…
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When the Azerbaijan army defeated and surrounded Armenian military forces in Karabakh in early November 2020 it engaged with the enemy diplomatically to end the conflict and, in conjunction with the Kremlin, brought about a managed conclusion of the war. Encircled Armenian forces were allowed to withdraw and retire from the battlefield without being destroyed…
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Noel Dorr, the veteran diplomat, recalls the Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko’s exasperated interruption of his Irish counterpart Garret FitzGerald’s effort to explain Irish neutrality during the Cold War in the 1970s: “I don’t understand Ireland, you are not aligned, and you are not aligned with the non-aligned.” (Paul Gillespie Irish Times, 10 June 2023)…
