Category: Geopolitics

Taiwan Loses Honduran Support to China

by Peter Zeihan on April 6, 2023 Today’s rainbow is brought to you by Wanaka, New Zealand. For those following Chinese relations, you’ve probably heard that Honduras just dropped its recognition of Taiwan to establish ties with mainland China. President Tsai responded with a trip to Central America […]

Europe Diminished

April 1, 2023By Srdja Trifkovic Image via Canva Violence is a central fact of human experience. History records the use of force, or the threat of force, in relations between men and their communities in all epochs, civilizations, cultures, and geographic spaces. Inherent in mankind, violence reflects his […]

The Sunak-Starmer Re-Balancing Act

There’s a British version of the Biden-DeSantis “post-populist” moment. Andrew Sullivan 2 hr ago (Carl Court/Getty Images) If you recall the last British general election, back in 2019, you may remember a — how to put this? — colorful contrast. The bumptious buffoon, Boris, for the Tories, and […]

Israel on the brink

Kelli María Korducki Senior Editor On Sunday, news broke that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had abruptly fired the country’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, after Gallant pleaded for a delay in the judiciary-overhaul plan put forward by Netanyahu’s government. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis rolled out of bed […]

Germans to the Front

Wolfgang Streeck 16 March 2023Politics According to Hofstadter’s Law, obviously a descendent of Murphy’s Law, ‘everything takes longer than you think’. Last year the first to get acquainted with it in a big way was the Russian warlord, Putin, who of course could have spared himself the shock […]