The international order is beginning to feel like the League of Nations. Donald Trump wants a “might is right” world and his steel and aluminium tariffs are a ploy to create it. These tariffs, whether by coincidence or design, continue President Trump’s ongoing efforts to undermine the legitimacy of the
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The Disaffected Lib: The U.S. and Assad. America Has Been Down This Road Before.
Is the United States poised to repeat the same mistakes in Syria that it made in Iraq after 1991? Chatham House, Associate Fellow, Nadim Shehadi, warns that is exactly what might happen. Some of the statements on Iraq from that period are eerily echoed today on Syria. Dick Cheney, then
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Learning to Live Within Your Own Skin – Japan’s Grand Experiment
The Japanese have become perhaps the greyest of the greying nations of the developed world. This is discussed in The World Today, the public journal of Chatham House, perhaps the world’s most venerable and certainly most prestigious think tank. Everybody knows that Japan is ground zero for global ageing. The
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