Category: Geopolitics

No to Neoconservatism

Hawley talks a good game in this but he’s just working what he thinks is his main chance. He is associated with the “national conservatives” which also include neocons like Marco Rubio and Yoram Hazony. By Senator Josh Hawley, Compact Not so long ago, Republicans said they had […]

How did the son of the notoriously corrupt dictator Ferdinand Marcos win the Philippines’ presidential election in a landslide?

The Signal How did the son of the notoriously corrupt dictator Ferdinand Marcos win the Philippines’ presidential election in a landslide? Alvin Camba on anti-elite anger, disinformation, and rewritten history. Jose Aliling / The Signal Ferdinand Marcos Jr., known to all as Bongbong, won a sweeping victory in the […]

Bush is Biden is Bush

By Matt Taibbi George W. Bush returns to the news with a tad too much honesty, lifting a veil on Washington’s dirtiest open secret: the Biden Democrats have become the Bush Republicans. George W. Bush returned to the news last week. The man who once said, “Our enemies… […]

Sweden, Finland, NATO, and Turkey

by Peter Zeihan on May 20, 2022 Most NATO members have met Finland and Sweden’s joint application for membership with open enthusiasm. The US, UK, France; even the Italians and Greeks are cheering, in a rare moment of pan-European positivity. But not the Turks. Long kept at arm’s […]

Russian Roulette: What’s Vladimir Putin trying to accomplish by cutting off gas supplies to Europe?

The Signal What’s Vladimir Putin trying to accomplish by cutting off gas supplies to Europe? Samantha Gross on Moscow’s energy-blackmail scheme amid “the first global natural-gas crisis.” Scott Rodgerson Finland was prepared for Russia to cut off natural-gas exports to the country last week, cabinet ministers in Helsinki said, […]