Category: USA
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Critical time for the world, is America up to it…?
It was sad to see Biden stumble about on stage and lose his train of thought. Neither candidate seemed that well-informed and if the free world rests on the inconsistencies of Trump or the frailty of Biden, the world is in trouble. There was an element of sadness that the frailties of Biden were on display,…
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ICC, what went wrong for Netanyahu
Its hard to feel sorry for Netanyahu, he was warned repeatedly that Israel was breaking International Law, but did not do anything to manage the events happening in the West Bank or Gaza. You would expect a but at this point, but there isn’t one. The international community had warned Israel in a thousand different…
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Ukraine 2 years on
It is two years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the meat-grinder that is the war – is not slowing down. Advika, is the latest town to fall to Russia. But Ukraine with a shortage of ammunition held back by the US Congress’, due to their inability to differentiate right from wrong; Congress are now electioneering for the…
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The rise of political populism
There is a worrying trend worldwide and that is the movement away from mainstream politics towards populist politics. What makes populism so dominant as a narrative can be underpinned by a disconnect between the politician and the electorate. The disenfranchised electorate argue that they have not been heard and that they are being ignored by…
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Welcome to a new year
Welcome to a new year. There are so many important elections to look forward to this year, but this is the year of critical argument where nations are dependent on the outcome of two very important elections that will determine how the world is seen and moves forward. The first election is a given, it…
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Immigration in Europe and America
Illegal migration is not a new argument, the US and Europe have been struggling with arguments concerning illegal migration for generations, but the mass movement of people has intensified the political and national arguments of states. Britain, a country with a large migrant population is determined to find an argument that challenges the illegal migrants…
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Censorship and the crisis in Gaza
Thousands of column inches have been written about the war in Gaza, but underneath these columns is a darker murkier argument that is coming to play in both Israel and the West. It is the argument of censorship and how this censorship has played out in the West, as well as within academia, the arts…
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The 7th October repercussions
The 7th October 2022, will be remembered in Israel for the absolute barbarity of a Hamas attack on the defenceless, women and children. It will also be remembered for the consequences of the attack and the bombardment of Gaza, where 5,000 have been killed and body parts strewn in rubble with the remnants of those…
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The movement away from the forever wars.
There is nothing quite like the spite of Putin, the end of Karabakh’s Armenian population is down to Armenia moving closer to the West. But the reasoning behind Putin’s negation of the Armenian population is down to larger concerns for the Russian government. The war in Ukraine has stripped the Russian military from much of…
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NATO and the Ukrainian question.
It is highly unlikely that Ukraine will get NATO membership at the moment, but there is a model for Ukrainian membership and that is the German model. Germany was divided after the second World War and got NATO membership, could the same argument be made for Ukrainian membership of NATO?…. However, the German model took…