Saturday The heightened tensions with North Korea raise puzzling questions about China. It seems quite unable to put any brakes on its neighbour’s belligerence. It cannot be because it does not want to, at least, reduce tensions, including the, by now, very real military threat to itself. The North Korean military comprises … [Read more...]
The Smell of Rot
Saturday The smell of rot is in the air. European bank problems have become so bad that the media are actually covering it. There is usually a law of inverse proportion between the direness of the situation and the triviality of the media news. Maybe that is justified by the reality that the closer that the world approaches Armageddon, the more weirdly trivial the … [Read more...]
Americans, Slavs and Hubris
Tuesday Vladimir Putin, the leader of Russia, is a Slav. The US does not understand Slavs. If they did, they would not have been so belligerent since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Hubris is always self-defeating. The US indulged in tub-thumping the idea that it was the world’s undisputed superpower, when it was already obvious. Their subsequent litany of much … [Read more...]