Africa, Awaken to Intentions of Putin, Xi Jinping
As African leaders today begin to realize Russia’s and China’s anti-colonial talk is a hypocritical ruse for their own racial-colonial ambitions they will admit to themselves that the actual ideals embraced by Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi are imperial goals for the Global South, pursued together as Mr. Putin pursues in Ukraine and…
Putin Perpetuates Mass Abuse of the Poor and Middle Classes via Weaponized Migration
Historic Repeat Thesis: The regime of Vladimir Putin is one of a number of resurgent vanguard dictatorships with ideological-DNA inherited from super-nationalist strains of autocratic authoritarianism shared by Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. Like them, Putin commits mass collateral damage and displacement abuse against poor and middle class peoples at home…
To Shorten Wars and Prevent Wider War The Biden Administration Should Lift Allies’ Conventional Strike Restrictions Against Iran’s and Russia’s Conventional Military Targets
October 4, 2024 Ukraine & Israel: Ukraine and Israel face common adversaries axially aligned. Russia and China enable Iran and its terror proxies with lethal supply and know-how to wage war against Israel. Russia and China could sanction Iran but do not. Iran, China, and North Korea likewise back Russia’s…
Strategic Lens on China’s Economic Vicissitudes
Recent Economic Backdrop Appears as Organic Economic Downturn By Summer 2024, China’s economy had reportedly reached average GDP growth between 5.3% in Q1 and 4.7% in Q2 on course with meeting its 2024 goal of 5%. However, during Q3 China saw a dive in consumer spending, 17%-18% young urban unemployment,…
In the News: Observations & Analyses
Ukraine: AP reported President Volodymyr Zelensky’s words at a ceremony commemorating the massacre at Babyn Yar in Kyiv of nearly 34,000 Jews during 48 hours in the 1941 Nazi occupation: “Babyn Yar is vivid proof of the atrocities that regimes are capable of when led by leaders who rely on…
Strategy Essay: Zelensky’s Unmet Requests are Xi Jinping’s Political Capital for Invasion of Taiwan
Chinese leader Xi Jinping uses China’s manufacturing power to help Russia’s aggression against Ukraine not out of friendship for President Vladimir Putin, but because a Putin victory in Ukraine can help him ram through his imperial military agenda for Taiwan and the region. The U.S. and free allies, by their…
Defending Ukraine, Changing War with Anti-Weapon Weapons
In February 2015, we wrote about a newly conceived category of advanced weapon systems purposed or repurposed to destroy aggressor states’ conventional weapons, ammo, and war supplies while such are used for aggression, yet refining the weapons to be ever more precise to that purpose, reducing collateral damage and depopulation:…
Kinetic Supply Chain Attacks via Pager & Walkie Talkies
Updated: Ingenious precedent made historical rubberneckers of most of the world fascinated by reports of Israel’s synchronous pager attack on Lebanese Hezbollah yesterday, and today, Wednesday, a second wave by exploding Hezbollah’s walkie-talkies and some solar equipment. That Hezbollah is a designated terrorist group lobbing rockets at Israel made it…
De Vice, Zero Trust, and The Ci-words
It’s all spyware, which is why there is Zero Trust. And Zero Trust is the epitome of secured insecurity. The premise of relying on a device suggests people cannot be relied upon unless they are surveilled with the help of strangers objectified as if they were not there, or were…
Russia-Iran in Context: President Masoud Pezeshkian’s Glass House is also a Nesting Egg
AP reported yesterday: “Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday slammed the West, saying that Israel is “committing massacres” in the war in Gaza and using European and American weapons to do so.“ President Pezeshkian shattered yet another of Tehran’s glass houses given that Iran’s regime culturally and materially engineered Hamas…