People don’t seek truth. They seek a reasonably authoritative-sounding confirmation of their own assumptions and prejudices Cross-posted from Aurelien’s Substack This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication […]
Delusional politicians, media, and sects are pushing the West towards war without considering the consequences Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack By Jacques-Louis David – https://genius.com/alb The subject of Ukraine keeps muscling its way back onto […]
Life is officially intended to have no purpose, outside the Liberal minimalism of extracting money from the economy and from others for its own sake Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack Photo: Wikimedia Commons Back in […]
The reality is that Europe since 1945 has been completely dependent upon the US for its security I had originally started to write about something else this week, but on Saturday morning I began to […]
Give War a Chance turns out to be no more of a considered programme than Give Peace a Chance was Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack Source: Wikimedia Commons When I was young, I carried a guitar. […]
Western leaders are currently fixated by the need to keep the Ukraine crisis going on as long as possible, in order that, when it all comes apart, somebody else has to deal with the horrible […]
Defence in the West has become a victim of market neoliberalism Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack I’ve written several essays in the last year or two trying to peer dimly into the post-Ukraine world, including one […]
… about Intelligence. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack In my last essay, I touched on the topical issue of the existence or otherwise of an “Iranian nuclear programme” and what intelligence sources were supposed to be […]
Most issues in politics and strategy therefore involve uncertainty, not just complexity, and thus require nuance in their treatment, making any simplification problematic. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s Substack Old Geodesy library books in a wooden shelf. […]
Ukraine policy in Europe: groupthink on an epic scale Cross-posted from Aurelien’s Substack Perhaps the greatest of all traditional political skills is timing. Not just deciding when to launch an initiative or make a speech, […]
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