30 August 2022 The United Kingdom: The Once and Future King By Gwynne Dyer As a child, outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly said he wanted to be ‘King of the World’. He ended up in a somewhat humbler role, was rejected by his own party’s members of parliament for his mendacity, corruption and …
24 August 2022 Might Russia Use Its ‘Tactical’ Nuclear Weapons? By Gwynne Dyer On 25 August the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, announced that the country’s combat aircraft have been ‘upgraded’ by the Russians to carry nuclear weapons, and Belarusian pilots are being trained to deliver them. It got a single paragraph, or no notice …
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24 August 2022 What Shall We Do With the Climate Refugees? By Gwynne Dyer You wait ages for the bus, and then three come along at once. Books are a bit like that, too, although in this case it’s only a pair of them, both tackling the question of what to do about all the …
21 August 22 Killing Darya Dugina: Own Goal for Ukraine? By Gwynne Dyer “I am a political observer of the International Eurasianist Movement and an expert in international relations…. In this capacity, I appear on Russian, Pakistani, Turkish, Chinese and Indian television channels….The situation in Ukraine is really an example of a clash of civilisations; …
18 August 2022 India at 75 By Gwynne Dyer Last Tuesday, on the 75th anniversary of Indian independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to turn India into a developed country within the next 25 years. If all goes well, that could actually come to pass, b ut it would have to go very well indeed. …
14 August 2022 Ukraine War: Mother May I? By Gwynne Dyer “This obviously does not happen because of a thrown butt,” said British Defense Minister Ben Wallace. But the Russian Ministry of Defence insisted that the explosions that destroyed at least eight warplanes at Saki Air Base in Russian-occupied Crimea on 9 August were due …
It’s only one year since the fall of Kabul last August 15 and everybody in the countries that sent troops to Afghanistan has already forgotten about it (apart from journalists in need of a topic in a slow news month). This was predictable, but it is also unfortunate. The 20-year Afghan war was never more …
7 August 2022 Israel, Gaza and ‘Strategic Proportionalism’ By Gwynne Dyer There may be a truce in the latest lopsided war in Gaza by the time you read this, but it looks a lot like the previous ones in 2008, 2014 and 2021: the Israelis arrest or kill some leaders of the Palestinian resistance movements …
3 August 2022 Taiwan: Nancy Pelosi’s Last Hurrah By Gwynne Dyer Nancy Pelosi’s brief visit to Taiwan this week caused great if somewhat confected anger in Beijing, but the Chinese Communist regime was not her main target. The Speaker of the House of Representatives has long supported Taiwan, and she will be aware that both …