Intro LO: I’ve decided using the Wall Street Journal article (below) because this type of crisis is unknown in Europe. Probably because Europe favours fair inequality while America favours unfair inequality (eg, my 2018 blog, a 2017 Yale study). I agree with the author (below): the American ‘Affordability Crisis’ cannot be solved. Neither can other American crises...
Intro LO: Given the American president's common use of reverse psychology, his threat to shutdown the American government should imply that he will - once again - reverse course, and blame Democrats for his decision. UPDATE(s): Axios title: ⛔️ The shutdown begins By: Mike Allen Date: 1 October 2025 "It's official: The federal government shut down at midnight....
Recently, the American president claimed the following on his Truth Social site: "Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America.” (eg, BBC, Bloomberg). Actually, I've been wondering about such a conspiracy against USA. How much time would it take for countries to conspire against USA...
"Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'" The above is an excerpt from a 1907 article by Mark Twain in the North American Review (NAR) literary magazine. Twain refers to...
Recently, I noticed two interesting articles on China, Russia, and USA: Axios, 2 June 2025: Exclusive: China's global favorability rising, views of the U.S. turn negative NYT, 9 June 2025: A secret document reveals Russian worries about China Europe is not a nation but a semi-federation of 27 independent nations (i.e. the EU-27) and does therefore not meet my...
In zijn eerste kabinetsvergadering beweerde Trump het volgende: "De Europese Unie is opgericht om de Verenigde Staten te naaien. Dat was het doel. Ze hebben hun werk goed gedaan, maar nu ben ik president." (NOS, AD, BNR, GVA) Zit hier een kern van waarheid in, of betreft het (wederom) een voorbeeld van zijn omgekeerde psychologie? Een uitspraak uit 1971 suggereert...
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