Possible solutions to the Ukraine War must go beyond a settlement of land as the invasion was illegal, and the problems that it aimed to solve were largely created by Russia exerting influence due to its own paranoia or fear of being overrun by an encroaching NATO. Russia's fear that NATO was creeping up upon …
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Conflict
Leaders define their country. Democracy is an effort to find leaders who are defined by their country. It sometimes works, not always. Dictators destroy their country. Putin is a complex beast as he pretends to be democratic but killing all those that oppose you is a sign of dictatorship in desperation. Biden is a simple …
Greed and Criminality
The intellectual blindness of our leaders, or, their choices being criminal, and the ensuing celebration of clear insanity (QAnon, for example) is a minefield that hides and then exhibits due to narcissistic obsession with the past. Fear. Perhaps. Greed and criminality both induce fear. Leadership is a concept of social agreement, a bond of trust. …
AI Chat
A philosophical chat with ChatGTP
The Secret of Unhappiness
The world has a problem, humans. Our minds do not function correctly setting our natural mechanisms into overdrive to protect us from things we do not see we are doing nearly all the time that convince us that we deserve to do evil or think it is being done to us. That Little Voice in …
The fate of Russia
If war is the normal state, the thing that the government is permanently adjusted to, then it follows that during times of peace a certain restlessness would pervade. Russia has been invaded so many times that it can not avoid a policy of self preservation above all else. The cost of controlling buffer states such …
UK Covid Strategy
The UK Covid strategy has been led by hesitancy and populism rather than an understanding of the long term effects of early action, creating space for the NHS to breathe. And now the ex-head of the Covid Strategy task force is asserting more nonsense suggesting that the mass vaccination programme should be abandoned in favour …
Nuclear Agreement
The members of the Permanent Security Council have agreed to not use Nuclear Weapons as there is no advantage from using them. One hopes that the other four countries that have nuclear weapons also do not use them. See Guardian article Five of the world’s most powerful nations have agreed that “a nuclear war cannot …
The Future
The end of any year is a great time to reflect and predict but this year instead of trying to nail short term events to consequences, looking at the longer term is more interesting. The old forces, the old empire, the republic or the forces of evil are in their final decline to zero influence …
American-Qaeda
Another attack on the US Capitol, this time by a single terriorist in a car with a knife attacking police https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/02/us-capitol-lockdown bears remarkable similarities to the pointless but disturbing attack on the UK Houses of Parliament in 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_London_Bridge_attack. Both were suicide missions, both involved an attack that was aimed at the police and both …