Yalta 2.0: How to deal with Putin
When Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt met at Yalta in 1945, they proceeded to carve up Europe into spheres of influence.…
Starmtrooper visits The Empire
If the New World had a philosopher, it would be Thomas Hobbes. It would involve an account of the power…
Trump and the New World
The implementation of hegemony, since the eclipse of British maritime Empire, has been the prerogative of the US. There have…
The era of GeoEconomics is upon us
The think tank Chatham House describes ‘GeoEconomics’ as ‘the interplay of international economics, geopolitics and strategy’. The central question in…
Woke is trapped in political limbo
La Rochefoucauld was one of the great satirists in literature. His Maximes, written in the 17th Century, secured his place…
Starmer’s Britain is a death cult
It was Nietzsche who described the ‘fin de siècle’ era of the 19th Century as one of ‘nihilism’. With the…
Foreign policy realism
The Liberal International Order (LIO) is no more. The days of intervening in foreign lands to protect ‘democracy’ is almost…
Much ado about nothing: UK Labour’s policy wasteland
Most astute commentators on the ‘zeitgeist’ of the times; in the realms of geopolitics, economics, resource scarcity etc – whether…
The Trump attack and the death of consensus
Assassination attempts are the boiling point at which politics explodes. They are the final straw, the irascible tension when consensus…
