. I hate having been correct so much with my Cassandra warnings about Americans turning Fascist and against Europe. I hate having been corr...

. The Americans created the "Monroe Doctrine", basically the ambition to keep European powers out of messing in the Americas. The...

. The political consequences. I wrote in 2016 that one shouldn't quit NATO ASAP when America turns fascist, despite the summer of 1914...

  Germany is very safe these days. My normal check list Will we get blockaded? Will we get bombed? Will we get invaded? is almost completel...

  So, looking at the mess in Ukraine, what's my take? The upside: Putin is apparently not the type for strategic surprise attacks. Th...

. There's a curious map about which countries support the PR China in regard to its oppression of the Muslim Uighur minority in the W...

. Several of my blog posts were written under the (mentioned) assumption that we should have a division of labour in NATO / EU. The Baltic...

. Previously , I argued that the United States violated its own temporary grand strategy for peace and prosperity in the Western world wi...

. Paul Krugman made a case -him being the political partisan that he is- that Trump's foreign policy in trade and alliance matters is ...

. I'm steadily amazed by how much attention the Chinese get for their efforts in Africa, and by how important they are perceived to b...

. Back in the 80's there was much talk about the competition between capitalism/democracy and planning economy/single party dictatorsh...

. There's a problem with the referendum, and as usual much of the media did a terrible job at shining light on it*: The wording of t...

. The NATO as originally founded was meant as a defensive alliance against Soviet power, no doubt. It also served as a delineation of the...

. I've held this back for a long time, but thus also thought about it for a long time: Let's say a great power in NATO turns f...