19 Mar, 2025
Intro LO: This Bloomberg Balance of Power article underlines my earlier Taiwan comments: Taiwan is digging its own political “grave” by investing almost US$ 200 billion in 5 new American factories (eg, Reuters-2025, CNBC-2025). This Bloomberg article might also be an example of my blogs on (business, private) Money versus (national) Politics. Please see my related...
6 Mar, 2025
Recently, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (ie, Kaja Kallas) claimed that “The free world needs a new leader”, following Trump’s Oval Office clash with the Ukrainian president (eg, Independent). Perhaps, she referred to the EU as that new leader (Who). Her timing (When) is remarkable because Trump is old (b.1946) and in his second...
20 Feb, 2025
Recently, the chairman of the Munich Security Conference (ie, Christoph Heusgen) stated something that feels very, very familiar: "This America under Trump lives on another planet". Is this development indicative of an American alienation of Europe?? The complexity of the answer relates to the triangle of deeds, words & intentions. Anyone’s words can only be...
13 Jan, 2025
Last Wednesday, I viewed Se1Ep1 of Matlock (2024), featuring Kathy Bates. Initially, I failed to understand its high IMDb rating. Afterwards, I gave it an 8. The difference was its last scene, which revealed a very intriguing subplot. I suppose the excellent subplot of The Mentalist (2008-2015) explains the above. Nearly all of its episodes are independent crime...
14 Nov, 2024
Intro LO: Late October, I received an interesting and intriguing Bloomberg email newsletter, entitled De-dollarizing fantasyland. That Bloomberg New Economy article is stated below. I suppose this article is - ultimately - about trust, distrust and mistrust. The dollar may not be liked (eg, by BRICS countries). However, the US$ is trusted despite the 1971 comment by...
12 Nov, 2024
An American expert at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies claims that voting by "anti-democratic young generations" is a reason for Trump's 2024 victory. See his recent comment on Dutch BNR Newsradio. In my view, "anti-democratic young voters" is a rather silly and even a contradicting concept. As a child (1960), my parents once explained that it was common that...
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