Carney’s Campaign by Gwynne Dyer “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose,” said former New York Governor Mario Cuomo forty years ago. Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is now in the poetic phase of his campaign to create an alliance – maybe just a loose alliance – of middle powers who can resist the […]
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk sent a message congratulating Hungary’s newly elected prime minister, Peter Magyar, for having evicted long-serving populist leader Viktor Orban (aka ‘The Viktator’) from power. All the usual welcoming words, but Tusk’s message ended with two slightly mysterious words in Hungarian: “Ruszkik Haza” – Russians Go Home. There are no Russians
The Trump/Netanyahu war in the Middle East will not spread any further, and nothing going on there threatens our collective existence. The only countries that have nukes in the Middle East are Israel and the United States. Iran has none now and has never even been close to having them. Mountains of lies have been
The Russian word ‘derzhavnost’ is usually translated as ‘great power status’, but the real meaning is closer to the gangland concept of ‘respect’. The word was beyond the reach of my feeble Russian vocabulary until I heard it about twenty times in twenty minutes while interviewing an ultranationalist ideologue called Aleksandr Dugin about twenty years
A few days ago the European Union’s Earth Observation programme, ‘Copernicus’, made a special announcement at the end of its monthly report on the state of the climate. It said that the average global temperature for the past three years (2023-2025) has been 1.5 degrees C above the pre-industrial level. That’s the level we were
800 words (700) 14 May 2025 After NATO By Gwynne Dyer General The Right Honourable The Lord Ismay, KG GCB etc., the first Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, was probably holding a glass of port after an excellent dinner when he growled his famous remark: “NATO was designed to keep the Russians
6 April 2025 Trump Smashes the System By Gwynne Dyer In ten whirlwind weeks Donald Trump had already smashed the international system of rules and alliances that more or less kept the peace for the past eighty years, but his bizarre ‘tariffs on everybody’ policy has given us a glimpse of what may take its
9 October 2024 Remigration By Gwynne Dyer ‘Remigration’: the word had a harmless origin, as a term academics used to describe the phenomenon of migrants who failed to thrive in their new home and decided to go back to their birth country. Then about ten years ago French nationalists and racists started using it to
10 June 2024 Macron’s Strategy By Gwynne Dyer Even before the final results were in from all of the 27 European Union countries that voted in the EU elections last weekend, President Emmanuel Macron had called national elections in France for the end of this month. What does he know that other European leaders don’t?
19 May 2024 Small Assassination Attempt in Slovakia; Not Many Hurt By Gwynne Dyer Madeleine Albright, the former US Secretary of State, once called Slovakia “the black hole at the heart of Europe,” which seems a harsh judgement on five million Slovaks. The assassination attempt on Prime Minister Robert Fico was alarming, but we can
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