The death of 85-year-old Frederik Willem de Klerk, on 11th November 2021, the last President of South Africa under apartheid, raises many ghosts. We have long-argued…
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Posted by David Murrin on Sat, 13/11/2021 - 15:30
Last Update: Sat, 01/01/2022 - 11:06
When Joe Biden became President, we made a bold prediction that he would not survive in office longer than 18 months; based on his obvious symptoms of early-stage dementia that were apparent…
Posted by David Murrin on Thu, 11/11/2021 - 09:00
Last Update: Mon, 15/11/2021 - 08:25
Now if that title sounds confusing, I do understand! However, there is logic behind it that explains why wars have been an enduring and yet a dark but so-far essential unconscious element of human…
Posted by David Murrin on Wed, 10/11/2021 - 19:30
Human collective behaviour is hard-wired into each of our nervous systems. Whilst autocracies minimise these herd instincts, replacing them with the decisions of a…
Posted by David Murrin on Wed, 10/11/2021 - 08:00
Stalin supplied Hitler with all the commodities he wanted for his war efforts in the West, after he signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop non-aggression pact in 1939, hoping to buy time to build up his…
Posted by David Murrin on Tue, 09/11/2021 - 11:00
Last Update: Tue, 23/11/2021 - 12:34
The Chinese PLAN have built in the North-Western Taklamakan desert, a full-scale moving on rails, target mock up of the latest USN carrier the USS Gerald Ford, along with two full-sized escort…
Posted by David Murrin on Tue, 09/11/2021 - 09:00
7.1 Every Expansive Power Makes War
Having digested our short summary of 120 years of warfare over the past week, there should be one pattern that is etched on your mind, that every nation…
Posted by David Murrin on Mon, 08/11/2021 - 12:00
Last Update: Wed, 19/02/2025 - 08:05
The Cold War, which lasted 45 years, from 1945 to 1990, was the first time there was a hegemonic challenger in the age of nuclear weapons. These were weapons, if used in an all-out nuclear war,…
Posted by David Murrin on Sun, 07/11/2021 - 09:00
Last Update: Tue, 09/11/2021 - 07:21
The destruction wrought during WWI had shocked the combatants to their very cores. However, WWII was to exceed all nightmares. To understand how the world went from the…
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