Tyranny Today

# Putative leaders of 2024 – in the Americas, the Middle East, Asia and Europe

# End of the year rankings # List 2 – the Top 10 Losers of 2023 – the Americas, the Middle East, Asia and Europe

# End of the year rankings # List 1 – the Ranking of Top 10 Leaders of 2023

# What was Putin up to in the Middle East?  # Crude oil and the US elections # Venezuela’s bizarre Drang nach Osten

# Where are Ukraine’s allies? # Kissinger’s Teutonic roots # Merkelism’s legacy lives on # Can Germany have a long term strategy? # Revisionists vs Status Quo powers

Casus Milei – the tyranny of liberty? / Can an anti-systemic politician be constructive? / ¿A dónde vas, Argentina?

# From 1920s to 2020s - how US business builds communism # Is Russia Asian? # Dmitri Medvedev has a solution: after Ukraine, it’s Poland’s turn

# Why stroke the Panda in San Fran? # Risks around the 2024 electoral contests: Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, the US  # Spheres of control vs Zones of influence - examples

# Hamas’s intended consequences and Israel’s mistakes # the arithmetic of victimhood # Iran’s sphere of influence # Mr Xi going to San Francisco?

# A myopic vision for Palestine # Israel’s misguided choices # The devastating lessons of the right to veto # Russia steeling for a long attrition war # Losing Indonesia? 

# Dangerous verbal violence against Jews # Biden’s strategic vision laid out # China’s history of engagement with the Global South # How Beijing defines its global strategy?

# The battle of collective traumas # How populists make us insecure # How Russia benefits from the crisis # The Middle East in China’s Global South strategy

# Shock in Israel # Washington’s shambolic moment # Ukraine’s tough homework # Space X and its star wars over the US, Ukraine and Taiwan

# The tragedy of Armenia’s loneliness # Is Iran stepping back? # No rare earths from Kachin # Burma and Russia – brothers in arms?

# the forces that shape post-globalization # relative size # geo-stories # shared context and affinity # economic complementarity # example of West Asia

# Putin’s grain game ricochets around Europe # EU cracks down on Chinese subsidies # Trade war in critical materials spreads to Vietnam, Mongolia, Africa and Iran

# BRICS become an anti-Western bloc # Argentina with tyrannies? # North Korea-Russia embrace # Dangers of Ukraine cease-fire # Wagner "in Occultation"

# China's minister vanishes # Russia in Africa # Sahel and its coups d'état

# Who is invading Belarus? # The story of Belarus # Lukashenko - the great survivor

# The outcome of NATO Vilnius summit # Turkey’s pivot # Why the West needs allies in East Asia # Is AI threatening us with tyranny?

# Sweden in NATO # how Wagner helped Ukraine # the present state of the economic war with China

# Asia Pacific and NATO # Five objectives of NATO's Summit in Vilnius # Roots of emerging powers' overextension

# The meaning of the Russian coup d'etat and its varieties # why Prigozhin's attempt was not a maskirovka # how foreign leaders reacted and why # who benefits most among Russia's elites

# Bhutan and the Himalayan standoff between India and China # India - US technological and military cooperation # France's unexpected "pivot" to Eastern Europe

# Change of mood in Japan # Ukrainian diplomacy in Asia # possible outcomes of the war vs political calendars elsewhere # visiting Taiwan after over 3 years