An insecure supply of energy, driven by an ideological crusade to purge the country of unclean things.
Henry Kissinger famously applied the dictum that “information is power” to a theory of global economic and political systems. His understanding of geopolitics and global economies and the interconnected global world can be summarized with the triad: Control food, you control the populations; control energy, you control whole continents; control currency, you control the world. […]
BEN SCALLAN: Some of the weapons being poured into Ukraine will inevitably end up on the European black market, meaning we can all look forward to a new breed of military-armed gangs and super terrorists. #gript
Operators ‘changing business model’
Landmines are an especially evil weapon.
Military neutrality.
Interesting times ahead.
If we had a functioning political left in this country, one that actually cared about the working people and deprived people that it pretends to represent, Saturday’s protest would have been much bigger.
Rising.
From 2015.
Even some bordering conflict.
A fascinating tidbit from earlier this week that I didn’t see picked up in the rest of the Irish media. From Tom Friedman, in the New York Times: The timing [of Pelosi’s visit] could not be worse. Dear reader: The Ukraine war is not over. And privately, U.S. officials are a lot more concerned about […]