The worst will never happen until it does. We live in a just-in-time society, whereas we used to live in a just-in-case one. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: National Archives […]
There will not be a negotiated settlement to the Iran war. It will have to be fought out to a conclusion, whatever that might be. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: […]
The path of the individual to non-entity Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: By W. Bulach – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=116407722 The first time I crossed a land border […]
“There will be a considerable rebalancing of strategic and political power in the world in the next few years” Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: FreePik Over the last couple of […]
As the entire international economic, political and military balance is upended, and governments are going to find themselves in a frightening new world, unlike anything they have ever known, and where neither Powerpoint nor mythical […]
Now that the Weekend War That Wasn’t is in its fourth week, it’s becoming clear that just about everything to do with its progress, as well as its origins and its potential consequences, is covered […]
The Epstein Class is destroying our society and everything we assumed it stood for Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Wikipedia When I become despondent about the state of the world, […]
The debacle that Trump and Netanyahu have gotten their nations into Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Screen Grab After last week’s excursion into culture and politics (and extra marks to […]
A problem of ignorance combined with a problem of incoherent thinking Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: 35th Marine Brigade, Defense Forces of Ukraine I was hoping to avoid writing another […]
What Aurelien does not appear to understand is that it was the union of workers and middle class that enabled progressive politics. The PMC alone is the Green Party, which eventually becomes far-right. Cross-posted from […]
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