In the USA and Europe, immigration is the root cause of the new identity crisis. In China and Asia, it’s about politics and Taiwan. There seems to be a new global quest for identity similar to the one that shaped nation-states two centuries ago, moving away from old royal identities. America was a nation of […]
Can the UK bridge the widening transatlantic gap? Beyond Trump’s intemperance, many American complaints about Europe are real and are driving the old continent adrift. Can King Charles bring new unity between the two sides of the Atlantic, now drifting apart more than ever? The time is momentous. He goes to the US next week […]
Hormuz is a wrench in the global energy mechanism. It can’t break the global system, but it could very well break Iran. America has a new deadline: May 10th, when President Donald Trump said he will be in Beijing. By that date, the war in Iran may or may not be over. If it is […]
The twin controversies about the northern island and the FED could undermine the dollar and cast a shadow on the April summit with China. There is no formal link between the two. Yet they are connected in time – the crisis over Greenland, the island that US President Donald Trump wants for America, and the […]
A question might haunt Washington: who should decide on international policy, the US alone or in consultation with allies? Ancient Rome faced the same trouble. On December 15, the head of the UK intelligence agency MI6, Blaise Metreweli, in her first public speech, said, “We are now operating in a space between peace and war,” […]
Trump achieved huge results in a few short months, but pressing for a Ukrainian deal against the EU starts a Russian domino effect that could end the US’s global role. US President Donald Trump is proving to be very innovative and adaptable in his foreign policy. He broke old molds and achieved unexpected breakthroughs. He […]
At long last, Italy decided to build a structure linking Sicily and the mainland. It will be a continental shift and a massive cultural change for Western civilization, provided Italian politics gets its act together. This is not a bridge; it is the end of one myth and perhaps the origin of another. Western civilization […]
