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I was very interested to read the article written by Alexander Stubb published by The Economist (link at the end). I was surprised at the realism on Stubb's part given his history of deep antipathy to the Russian state (I used to watch some of his YouTube podcasts).
In the…
China Concord Resources Corp's $1 billion floating crude production facility has arrived in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. CCRC aims to increase oil output at two western Venezuelan fields, Lago Cinco and Lagunillas Lago, from 12,000 to 60,000 barrels per day by the end of next…
I see that there are assertions that Russia deliberately attacked the government buildings Kyiv/Kiev. However, there's this from the NYTimes:
"The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, said that debris from a drone shot down by air-defense systems appeared to have started the fire."…
If you haven't watched Mark Carney's rupture speech (the first video), you should do so. It's in effect an explanation of the disintegration that is starting to happen between the US and its partners and more broadly, across the US led West.
Here's Carney again:
"The lessons…
👇 And read the comment about F35s too. I also read that the Chinese have warned the US not to try anything with Venezuela. We may be looking at a serious flashpoint between the two great powers. The Chinese may now have reached the point where they have the confidence and will…
👇 And read the comment about F35s too. I also read that the Chinese have warned the US not to try anything with Venezuela. We may be looking at a serious flashpoint between the two great powers. The Chinese may now have reached the point where they have the confidence and will…
👇 This is broadly accurate and largely inevitable. Also, the Russians are already in the game to revise the European security architecture; Ukraine is the springboard that the Europeans have unwittingly given them.
👇 This is broadly accurate and largely inevitable. Also, the Russians are already in the game to revise the European security architecture; Ukraine is the springboard that the Europeans have unwittingly given them.
"Kaja Kallas does not understand, like most so-called European leaders, the consequences of integrating a bankrupt, corrupt and ruined country into the European Union. It will break us financially, socially and politically. Ukraine is not a European country in its spirit, values…
"Kaja Kallas does not understand, like most so-called European leaders, the consequences of integrating a bankrupt, corrupt and ruined country into the European Union. It will break us financially, socially and politically. Ukraine is not a European country in its spirit, values…
History note: If I asked you to produce a list of individuals most responsible for the Allied victory of WW2, who would you include in it? Certainly, all the big names. Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Kai-Shek... And many others perhaps too such as Turing, Fermi, Oppenheimer,…
Some interesting insight into China coing out of a Ross Douthat interview of Dan Wang. (1) The US is run by lawyers. China is governed by engineers. (2) Chinese companies become super efficient and competitive through the most unbelievable free market competition, way beyond…
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