A fundamental danger with paradigms: they do not necessarily have to conform to reality, so long as they are sufficiently widely accepted. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” When you get involved […]
Orwell: “Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’.” Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Wikimedia Commons A spectre is haunting the Professional and […]
Europe’s geopolitical debacle regarding Russia Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. So first, what Strategy isn’t. It’s not a governmental or multinational document, usually thick and dense and […]
Today in the West reform is a slogan, not an activity Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” By Guallendra – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=200809764 Last week, we looked at the grip that […]
Is the era of nuclear weapons coming to an end? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Nuclear weapons have been much talked about recently. The interest comes in waves, often sparked […]
Artificial Intelligence is just the newest link in an concatenation in the human search for truth Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 […]
How does weaponry effect a war? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=139499 I’ve written a fair amount over the last few years about the implications of the use of […]
The influence of fear on the behaviour of states. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine I’ve been wondering whether there’s anything useful to say at […]
Diplomacy has effectively its own language, and the sum total of that language is, in theory at least, the sum total of possible interactions between states in peacetime. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand […]
Stein‘s Law: “if a thing cannot go on forever, it will stop.“ Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Most people have heard at least a version of what is called Stein‘s Law: […]
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