"I think that the 1935-40 period is most analogous to the current period and that it is worth reflecting on what happened then when thinking about US-Chinese relations now..."
"The International Criminal Court is a noble ideal but a flawed institution. Far better to encourage nations to develop courts that are accountable to the victims and free from charges of selective enforcement or foreign intervention."
"...the farm seizures in South Africa aren’t just about dispossessing an unpopular, market dominant racial minority...It’s also a threat to South Africa’s incredibly fragile democracy... AND ALONG the lack of a broad-based middle class, you have a recipe for kleptocracy and starvation."
"The fog of war and geopolitics makes initial responses to the attack on Russian and Syrian forces recently difficult to assess... Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response seemed timid..."
"A full third of the Russian Army just moved from Europe to the Far East for the war games. The Chinese dragon of which Napoleon warned is awakening..."
Pentagon scientists have been deployed to the Republic of Georgia and given diplomatic immunity to research deadly diseases and biting insects at the Lugar Center – the Pentagon biolaboratory in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi.
