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; …
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 …
20 July 2022 Ukraine Black Sea Corridor By Gwynne Dyer “Not all issues have yet been resolved, but the fact that there is movement is already good,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tehran on Tuesday. “We feel that incrementally, there’s been a little bit more progress made, but there’s nothing to announce at this …
It was a piece of news so obscure and implausible that I missed it when it first surfaced last month. The news was that the Russians are going to put hypersonic nuclear missiles into Nicaragua and terrify the Americans into backing down over Ukraine. Or kill them all if they don’t. “If American missile systems …
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29 June 2022 Sweden and Finland in NATO By Gwynne Dyer Another fifteen million people joined the NATO alliance on Tuesday. Finland and Sweden, formerly neutral countries but near to Russia, gave in to Turkish blackmail, and that cleared the way for them to join the western alliance. (Every NATO member, including Turkey, has a …
26 June 2022 Welcome to Gilead! By Gwynne Dyer “President Trump, on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America, I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday,” said Congresswoman Mary Miller at a Trump rally in Illinois on Saturday, the day after the court struck …
25 May 2022 By Gwynne Dyer ‘What happens in Davos stays in Davos’, they say – or at least it should stay there, because some foolish things are said at the ‘World Economic Forum’, the annual conclave of the rich and famous. Well, the rich, the famous, and this time also the very old, because …
4 May 2022 By Gwynne Dyer We were talking recently about how clever the Ukrainians had been to call the invading Russian troops ‘Orcs’ even before all the atrocities in the Russian-occupied towns around Kyiv came to light. Then Tina said: “If Putin’s troops are Orcs, then he must be Sauron.” You can guess what …
27 April 2022 By Gwynne Dyer Two months ago, when Russian tanks first rolled into Ukraine, every message from Washington or NATO about the invasion included a prominent passage saying what the western alliance would not do. It would not send NATO troops to help Ukraine. It would give Ukraine some ‘defensive’ weapons but no …
20 April 2022 By Gwynne Dyer Last Sunday Vladimir Soloviev, the anchor of Russia’s most popular current affairs show, ‘Sunday Evening’, was delivering his usual ‘all is going splendidly’ take on the war in Ukraine when he suddenly went off-piste. The United Kingdom, he suggested, is planning to use nuclear weapons against the Russian forces …