12 Jun, 2025
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...
26 Mar, 2025
There’s an interesting Dutch political trend following the course of Trump-2025 in the Russian-Ukraine war. Dutch voters, including me, are turning away from parties (ie, PVV, NSC, BBB) that seem to abandon Ukraine, like Trump does. I’m not a fan of Ukraine but I do not trust Russia - at all. Abandoning Ukraine implies a carte blanche for further Russian invasions...
21 Mar, 2025
Maandenlang werkte ik aan een diagram met een ijsberg metafoor qua (zichtbare) daden en woorden, en (onzichtbare) intenties. Ik bleef ontevreden want telkens ontbrak er iets dat ik niet (goed) kon benoemen. Vandaag “kantelde” ik die ijsberg weer eens. Dit keer voegde ik tijd en ruimte toe, alsmede een andere driehoek van noodzakelijk, willen, en overtuigingen....
14 Mar, 2025
Het verschil in machtspolitiek tussen Trump’s Amerika en Rusland is enorm: woorden (Trump) versus daden (o.a. oorlog met Georgië (2008) en overname van Zuid-Ossetië en Abchazië, invasies de Krim-2014 en Ukraine-2022). De intenties van Rusland lijken tamelijk duidelijk: de heroprichting van de Sovjet-Unie (1922-1991). De Russische president ziet dat als een...
10 Mar, 2025
On 11 April 2015, I published my blog: Chaos, Equilibrium, SuperPowers and the United States of Europe (1). A lot has happened since, like Trump 2017-2021, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Trump 2025-tbd. Today, I present an update of my 2015 diagram, which includes The Great Flood (16,000 BC – 4,000 BC). Or, alternatively, the post-glacial sea level rise following...
5 Mar, 2025
Trump is creating new enemies every single day. Some day, they will realise an ancient proverb: the enemy of my enemy is my friend, “which suggests that two parties can or should work together against a common enemy.” I doubt Trump cares about friendly nations. Retaliatory measures (eg, by Canada) against USA will only “prove” Trump’s point: friendly nations do...
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