Category: Europe
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Without realising the beginning, middle or end…
America is in trouble, whether it wants to hear this assessment or not. Without a flip to help Ukraine, the war in the Middle East is coming to bite this presidency, whether the so-called commander in chief accepts an argument that without pouring tech and lessons learned into Ukraine, there will be an escalation in…
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It’s still raining in Northern Ireland….
It really is a question of two old voices knocking ten bells of hell out of each other. The DUP and Sinn Féin stood in Stormont this past week, knocking lumps out of each other over an attempted march by 30 men in the Orange Order. Sinn Fein argued that the DUP were culpable of…
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Long term security
They term it a summit, a place that has been designated a neutral spot where the elements of an argument can be settled. Maybe these are just exploratory talks between two men delving into the dark side of a war that has cost hundreds and thousand of lives, but the candidness of Trump to welcome…
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At first it was denials, then admittance – the excuses…. Is the Tony Blair foundation above criticism
The Neenah Cherry song 7 seconds, is about starvation, war, pestilence and disease. Bob Geldoff got onto the phone to his mates and pushed to save the millions dying in Ethiopia, but the originator of the war in the Middle East – Tony Blair took advice and argued that $9,000 would cut the population of…
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Diplomacy or revenge
There was something that didn’t quite fit in with the news conference given by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. The niceties of the press conference were mixed with a statement from the state that rambled on with threats and then on to international law. The elements that were most talked about were those of international law,…
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Will Serbia continue as a corrupt clientalist state?
European governments have not said much about the protests or protest movements in Serbia. It is odd that the protests didn’t hit the headlines and its odd that the continuation of the protests are not national arguments throughout Europe as the Serbian government has been using draconian measures to control the student demonstrations. The European…
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Ninety days before Trump returns with economics 101
Once the stock exchanges around the world crashed last week, the US Treasury secretary argued that most of the investors in the exchange whose pensions were on the line were down only 40 percent, but the majority of those with pensions on the line were hammered by US bonds failure to sell. It was argued…
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The price of tariffs
Trump’s determination to get the garment industry back into the US is just one of the arguments around tariffs, but it is the failure of Trump to realise that good jobs reflect the states evolving industrial capabilities. The concept that the US will be manufacturing jeans and t-shirts and exporting them around the world is…
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Europe’s move to superpower status
Europe is in a bind, the idea that Trump is controlling the war in Ukraine has come to a head. Britain, France and Germany have come to agreements on how European defence forces will navigate the very difficult waters of a Europe without the United States. But one of their arguments was to integrate Türkiye…
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The polarisation of identity
JD Vance argues that a security guarantee does not meet the defence capabilities necessary to guarantee Ukrainian sovereignty. The vice president in an interview with Fox placed his argument in front of millions of Americans who were his target audience. After the debacle of the White house meeting with Zelensky, it is not really a…
