With President Trump reportedly casting acquisitive glances toward Canada and Greenland, the world has been reminded of a long-lost genre of geopolitics: the real estate brochure. Borders, it turns out, are just zoning suggestions, and sovereignty is merely a lease agreement waiting to be renegotiated by someone with enough confidence and a very large Sharpie. […]
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Do Politicians Keep Their Campaign Promises?
That’s politics for you: Ahead of an election political parties and politicians make outlandish promises often, I suspect, with very little thought whether their plans ultimately can be implemented or not. Examples are the recent election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York and his pledge of city run grocery stores and free buses […]
How much time does it take to govern a country? A take on President Trump’s social media habits
You might think that running a big country such as the United States would be hard and definitely at least a full time job: Well no, it isn’t. At least not when considering how many posts President Trump shares on social media. And not only at odd hours (and outside office hours – if there […]
The Rise of Global Powers: Challenges for Europe
The world increasingly is revolving around three major powers: the United States, Russia and China. And with all three blocs being led by autocratic personalities and governments, a degree of confrontation is pre-programmed: America seeks to take control of the Panama Canal, would like to accept Canada as the 51st state and wants to buy […]
Presidential Past, Criminal Present
The announcement on 30 May was not quite unexpected I suppose: a New York jury found former president Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records. So the former and aspiring POTUS is now a convicted felon. This means, should he get re-elected in November, that the most powerful democracy in the […]
The grumpy older man 