Restoring some of their pre-2022 complex mutual interdependence through US mediation, even if only for the wintertime, could facilitate a series of pragmatic diplomatic-military compromises aimed at resolving the Ukrainian Conflict and jointly building the new continental security architecture. Zelensky recently proposed a partial truce with Russia that would include, […]
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Politics Limits Arms Deliveries To Taiwan
On March 28, 2025 a rollout ceremony took place at Lockheed Martin’s F-16 production facility in Greenville, South Carolina. Two F16V block 70 jets were ready for final testing, and the ceremony marked the formal handover to Taiwan. The Greenville ceremony was attended by Taiwan’s Defense Minister and by Taiwan’s […]
Greenland’s Prime Minister Signed Away To US $45B Of Rights For $0
That $45B was the bottom-line central estimate of a lengthy calculation by the most reliable general-purpose AI that I have tried, ChatGPT. It searched numerous Internet sources, including primary governmental documents, compared the Greenland agreement with other military-basing arrangements, examined the strategic functions the United States obtains, and used standard […]
The Price Of War: Why Iran Is Becoming A Domestic Problem For Trump
For much of Donald Trump’s political career, the promise to end America’s “endless wars” was not a marginal talking point but one of the central arguments of his appeal to voters. The message was straightforward: Washington had spent decades sending American power overseas while ordinary citizens were left to deal […]
Trump’s Greenland Deal Is Essentially An Expanded Compact Of Free Association
This institutionalizes the “Strategy of Denial” on the world’s largest island by not only giving the US control over its security, but over its resources too, which could become a template that the US might replicate with others across Ibero-America and Africa as part of its systemic rivalry with China. […]
Trump-America’s Massive Theft From The Greenlanders
I asked ChatGPT: “Is Trump’s deal with Denmark and Greenland basically equivalent to the U.S. owning Greenland?” Not legally. But in the military-security sphere, the September 22, 2026 agreement gives the United States powers over Greenland that resemble some of the most important practical powers an owner—or sovereign—would possess. The […]
Farage Wants To Import America’s Most Controversial Border Enforcer
Nigel Farage’s pitch to “hijack” Tom Homan and bring him to Britain “to secure our borders” was delivered as a joke at a US event. But the specific person Farage chose to praise, and the political moment in which he chose to praise him, make the remark worth taking seriously […]
A Massive Belarusian-US Potash Deal Could Lead To Lukashenko’s Re-Embrace By The West
What’s most important is that Belarus coordinates all of this with Russia and that Lukashenko doesn’t pull any surprises on Putin that could inadvertently lead to mistrust or worse. Trump revealed that “The United States is working on a massive Deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus. […]
Counterfeit Righteousness: Anthropic, AI And The Pacing Fallacy
It’s bleak. “They are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” So stated researcher Jacob Coxon on those artificial intelligence firms so keen on imposing their jaundiced visions upon humanity in the name of a utopia that is just another word for self-enrichment. In resigning from Anthropic, […]
A Standing Ovation For An Undefined Idea: Inside The EU’s Overture To Canada
Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal to make Canada the European Union’s first-ever “associate member” produced one of the more theatrical moments of this week’s State of the European Union address: lawmakers rising to their feet, the Commission president crossing the chamber to embrace Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in person. […]






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