The Real Costs of Russiagate

Its perpetrators, not Putin or Trump, “attacked American democracy.” The very few of us who publicly challenged and deplored Russiagate allegations against candidate and then President Donald Trump from the time they first began to…

The Sino-US Trade War – China Can’t Win It? Why

Does our history only appear overheated, but is essentially calmly predetermined? Is it directional or conceivable, dialectic and eclectic or cyclical, and therefore cynical? Surely, our history warns. Does it also provide for a hope?…

Pentagon Obsession: China, China, China

Chinese nuclear bombers. Chinese hypersonic missiles. Chinese carrier killer missiles. Chinese cyberattacks. Chinese anti-satellite weaponry. Chinese militarization of the South China Sea. Chinese Huawei spying. So many Chinese “malign intentions”. And we’re not even talking…

China – and Macron’s U-Turn

Less than a week ago, President Macron was lambasting Italy for signing agreements with China in the context of their New Silk Road, alias President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in the same…

Saudi Arabia Is Losing the War in Yemen

Four years ago, they thought they could defeat the Houthis quickly. But the Yemenis turned out to be tougher than expected. As the war in Yemen marks the end of its fourth year this week,…