If the globalized world was reeling from the pandemic shock before February, it entered permanent crisis mode after it. All continents and countries are facing societal stress in one form or another. With most of the world being intertwin…
Preberi več Crumbling DominoesKorea Redux
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has a very good (historical) chance, to be viewed as an epochal turning point. Depending on how it plays out, it can mark a lasting global split toward a multi-polar world order. More mundanely, it can simply m…
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Tragedy of Climate Change
It should not be forgotten that science knows about climate change for (more than) half a century. After decades of ignorance, the Damoclean peril of climate change is intensifying. On paper states are promising a green shift, yet in reali…
Preberi več Tragedy of Climate ChangeSriLankan Canary in the Coalmine
While the current systemic crisis has multiple causes – unrestrained neoliberalism, multipolar rebalance, covid, Ukraine, financialization orgy, climate and ecology, etc – and is no doubt global in scale, it shows itsel…
Preberi več SriLankan Canary in the CoalmineMultipolarity & IR Liberalism vs Realism
Putin’s gamble clearly shook the world as it made clear to everyone that US hegemony is over. A rebalans of power and shift towards a multipolar world order has been underway for cca two decades. The recent attack is now clearly showin…
Preberi več Multipolarity & IR Liberalism vs Realism
COV Meat Grinder
The pandemic could have been a success story. Instead it’s one of chaos and unnecessary agony.
FOR the REASONABLE
Humanity, when faced with a historical crisis, managed to develop more than 23 vaccines in less than a year. Afterward…
Preberi več COV Meat GrinderTumbling Giants
When giants are tumbling, the ground is shaking for everyone. The pandemic is proving to be a systemic resilience test for all states. To some degree it may have accelerated the shift towards multipolarity, but it also meant that it struck i…
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Crypto.com Bubble
Whatever rises too fast is bound to be corrected at some point. The similarities between the crypto moment and the internet dotcom bubble is startling; might even be part of the “system”.
Technological progress is speeding u…
Preberi več Crypto.com BubbleRise of Lumpen Populists
While decades of unhinged neoliberalism stacked up problems, covid was the straw that finally broke the camel’s back and ushered in a new breed of populist – the even dumber kind.
Firstly it has to be acknowledged that the popu…
Preberi več Rise of Lumpen Populists
Digital “Great Game”
Given the current international climate, the digital sector is almost certain to be at the forefront of geopolitical “great games“. The issue is also extremely multilayered as it entails the world wide web, software and har…
Preberi več Digital “Great Game”Sanitizing Globalization
In recent decades globalization has become a “dirty” word and fell short of fervor during the nineties. Still, it should be reclaimed from the association with the past neoliberal decades.
One could argue that, what the worl…
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Cold War 2.0 Fallacy
Diplomacy is heavily rooted in history and geopolitical interpretations. Given the cold relations between the ex-hegemon (US) and a rising superpower (PRC), old logic is again coming to the forefront.
Looking at the current state of aff…
Preberi več Cold War 2.0 FallacyMore History Than Society Can Consume
The world had issues and was barrelling into trouble before COVID. Sadly, the pandemic just stole the spotlight – most unresolved issues, accumulated over decades, remain to be fixed. The geopolitical moment is also … impec…
Preberi več More History Than Society Can ConsumeThe Great Decoupling Hype
COVID has clearly exposed a lack of global resilience as its stress testing all continents and states regardless of the nature of their governance – be it authoritarian or democratic; developed or developing, although later clear…
Preberi več The Great Decoupling HypeAnti-vaxxer Galore
Complexity is hard to understand – sometimes, at least for some, it’s easier to believe in dumbed-down fantasies. COVID and the resulting mental stress exacerbated mental issues across the board. In the case of conspiracy n…
Preberi več Anti-vaxxer GaloreNeolib Chickens Coming Home to Roost
It is nigh impossible to asses all the impacts of COVID. While it’s clear that its an egalitarian stress test of all forms of regimes and states, be they democratic, authoritarian or anything in between, a clear lack of systemic resil…
Preberi več Neolib Chickens Coming Home to Roost
NATO’s Funeral Pyre
The half-arsed show of “support” – comprising piston engine and 90s era planes – is a clear indication of the growing desperation in Atlanticist circles. What warplanes have to do with a pandemic is beyond reaso…
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COVID & End of Great Power Conflict
COVID, while a health crisis at it’s core, simultaneously exposed the fragility of a globalized world. Latter is perfectly exemplified by the economic shock that is slowly rippling through world economy. On the plus side, it is tea…
Preberi več COVID & End of Great Power ConflictTinfoil Boomerang
Smart people said that stupidity is infinite – with pandemic being felt in real life, conspiracies are flowering. Stupidity might be a misnomer. The bullshit being peddled in regards to COVID is void of reason, literally trowing aw…
Preberi več Tinfoil Boomerang
American Caligula
So if Bush was Nero, then Trump is Caligula, right?
Disclaimer at start. Competent people are working overtime in the background, society is finally grasping the extent of crisis and starting to rally – especially since Trump final…
Preberi več American CaligulaA Survivable Collective Challenge
COVID is teaching us, that in the modern world, a great power war is MAD and unthinkable even without nukes. C19 is an epochal balance of power shift. It’s also a systemic disruption of supply and trade chains, yet it still managed to wr…
Preberi več A Survivable Collective ChallengeMultipolarity is Already Here
A raging debate has been circulating in IR circles of past decades. Multipolarity being THE buzzword at the core of it, with a flurry of thought and writing surrounding it. Crux of matter being, that it was not a matter of if, but of when. Dist…
Preberi več Multipolarity is Already Here
Blunder of the Century
- Trump’s foreign policy blatantly favored the Israeli side. The peace deal is just the cherry on top.
- Few expected a productive outcome, but no one believed the American proposal would be so biased and downright counterproductive.