China’s long term planning has allowed it to acquire some serious advantages which it now uses to counter economic and other attacks on it.

In January 2024 Taiwan’s current President Lai Ching-te won the election against two other candidates. (Taiwan has no run off elections.)

I am always amazed how little western governments are aware of their own (lack of) capabilities as well as of the nature and capabilities of their ‘enemies’.

A lot of the misunderstanding U.S. policy makers have of foreign countries is caused by the lousy reporting in U.S. media.

Last night Trump conceded that the campaign was lost. He order the U.S. fleet to retreat.

The details of the ceasefire negotiations between the U.S., Europe and Ukraine continue to make headlines despite being largely irrelevant for an end of the conflict in Ukraine.

The Trump administration is increasing its pressure on Ukraine’s (former) president Zelenski to swallow the shit sandwich.

As part of reading up on the JD Vance speech I stumbled over an outrageously arrogant attempt of reader manipulation in the New York Times.

Today the Trump administration told the Ukraine war party that their game is finally up.

In a globalized world the innovation ability of a country can be measured by the number of global patents it files.

Syria has fallen.

In response to a U.S. decision to arrange for ballistic missile attacks from Ukraine into Russia, the great magician and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin pull a rabbit from his hat.

The ATACMS missiles Ukraine had so far been allowed to fire, mostly against Crimea, have been carriers of cluster ammunition with a reach of some 160 kilometer.

Dima of the Military Summary Channel and others have mentioned that the Ukrainian army has deployed its police and military cadets to the front line.

Ted Snider asks: “Is America a Rogue Superpower?”

One presumes that readers of a media institution which calls itself the ‘paper of record’ would be informed about an important issue which  in other media has for month led the headlines of the day.

Seymour Hersh just published a new piece about the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines.

A main question for Ukraine since it became an independent state was who or what could potentially guarantee its security.

The aim of the counter-offensive was to reach the Sea of Azov, some 100 kilometer south of the frontline. At the current speed it would take the Ukrainian army 1,000 days (and many more soldiers and material than it has) to reach it.

The Prigozhin’s insurrection farce is over. I had predicted that it would not take long to end.