It Takes Two Baby: North Korea’s Second Iskander Like SRBM Test and Strategic Stability
The escalation ladder we are climbing with North Korea is starting to take some serious and some ominous shape.
Making an International Crisis into an International Crisis: North Korea Tests Short Range Ballistic Missile and Multiple Rocket Launchers in Echo of 2017
We’re riding an escalation ladder with North Korea, and we’ll continue to do so until we recognise that North Korea also has interests.
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: Is Kim Jong-un Gearing Up for The Mother of All October Surprises?
Kim Jong-un has given Donald Trump a deadline of one year to play ball on denuclearisation. Next year is an election year. October surprise!
Rage Against the Machine!
The Enlightenment bequeathed us the view we are not machines. Capitalism is a machine serving itself and which makes the self a machine. Ira contra machina!
What Happened at Hanoi, What You’re Supposed to Think Did, and What Should Happen Now
What you’re supposed to think happened at Hanoi, didn’t happen at Hanoi and Donald Trump is no Forrest Gump because though a moron Gump wasn’t a hustler.
Riding the Escalation Ladder with North Korea Risks Intentional Nuclear War
From before Hanoi we’ve been riding the escalation ladder with North Korea, and it looks like liberals and neoconservatives don’t mind nuclear war too much.
North Korea’s Reassembly Activity at the Sohae Satellite Launch Facility
Post Hanoi news has been dominated by reassembly activity at Sohae. What might it mean for North Korea’s space programme and nuclear talks with the US?
Me!2: On the Collapse of the Hanoi Summit.
When Melos gets the H-bomb Athens should get what it can get. But Athens wants more. That’s the lesson of the Hanoi fizzle.
From Hubris to Nemesis: Aleksandar Vucic and the 1 of 5 Million Protests in Serbia.
The 1 of 5 Million protests in Serbia are symptomatic of a wider social catastrophe in the Balkans brought about by its reincorporation into the third world
Incommensurability: Mostly Harmless
The incommensurability thesis of Thomas Kuhn is mostly harmless and mostly trivial. Think about something else. You’ve only got one life.