Category: Geopolitics

El Nino Speaks 63: Canada in Decay

Ricardo Duchesne breaks down Canada’s multi-decade cultural decline Jose Alberto Nino LISTEN HERE Listen to José Niño sound off on contemporary political affairs. Share Is Canada on the road to civilizational disappearance? Ricardo Duchesne, a former sociology professor at the University of New Brunswick, explains how multiculturalism took […]

Playing with Nuclear War

By William S. Lind, Traditional Right As of this writing (September 12), Ukraine’s counter offensives appear to be succeeding. The widely telegraphed offensive in the south is making some progress. But it looks as if its primary role was deception, where it has already succeeded because Russia responded […]

Alberta’s Energy Future

by Peter Zeihan on September 22, 2022 A decade ago, Alberta’s oil sands were the home of the most expensive to produce crude oil on the planet. Not only that, but Canada’s mix of intra-provincial competition and weak federal control left the landlocked province with few options to […]

Russia Calls Up More Troops

by Peter Zeihan on September 21, 2022 Russian president Vladimir Putin has called up some 300,000 Russian troops in a “partial mobilization” to assist Russian forces in Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian forces have had some recent successes on the battlefield against Russian troops in the roughly […]

Europe Reconsiders Russian Tourism

by Peter Zeihan on September 20, 2022 European nations are debating a potential Russian tourist ban, with the general theme being “you shouldn’t be able to visit our beaches and luxury shops while simultaneously supporting a regime declaring war against Ukraine (and potentially the West).” Europe being Europe, […]

Comparing China and the West

By David Pan, Telos In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, David Pan talks with Sijia Yao about her article “Third Term Comparison,” from Telos 199 (Summer 2022). An excerpt of the article appears here. In their conversation they discuss the difference between world literature and comparative literature, […]

Germany and Russia Start Dancing…Again

By Peter Zeihan on September 16, 2022 Americans woke up to news today that Germany has nationalized assets–primarily refineries–owned by Russian oil giant Rosneft. Assets worth billions of dollars. Though this is not surprising or unexpected, it’s something we should take seriously. Germany and Russia have a famously […]

A Cold Reckoning In Europe

And a confession that I’ve been too gloomy about the war in Ukraine Andrew Sullivan The renovation of high voltage lines around Areches-Beaufort, France on September 6, 2022. (Jeff Pachoud/AFP via Getty) As we were going to press last week — I still don’t know a better web-era […]

The Collapse of Empires

by Peter Zeihan on September 15, 2022 The success of Ukrainian forces against Russian troops over the last week is forcing a series of reevaluations of Russian capabilities–especially in the places most of us might not yet be thinking about. There’s been a lot of focus on whether […]

Lizzy’s Face

Caitlin Johnstone 5 hr ago Listen to a reading of “Lizzy’s Face”:   Lizzy’s face on the papers blowing in the wind Lizzy’s face on the screens Lizzy’s face on the street billboard with a homeless man leaning against it. Lizzy’s face on the Jumbotron Lizzy’s face on […]

Russia ‘takes off the gloves’

Gilbert Doctorow In my last essay, I devoted considerable attention to commentary by the host of the leading political talk show on Russia’s state television Friday night with respect to the country’s obvious military setback in the Kharkov front, which still had not yet reached its culmination in […]

Universalism and Sectarianism

By David Pan, Telos Since today’s world conflicts often derive from competing notions of universal values, with, for instance, Islam, Russian Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholicism, the human rights project, and liberal democracy all offering separate foundations for a universal culture, it is tempting to look for a way […]

Insane in the Ukraine

How does this end? Edward Slavsquat 18 hr ago Internet war punditry: rapidly advancing towards total irrelevancy. The Ukrainian military has launched a counter-offensive in the Kharkov region. There are many hot takes about this. We are not going to provide you with a Military Analysis. Instead, we […]