Evening all from Singapore :) After 11 weeks in Kiwiland, a real change of pace and my first visit here in 19 years. Capitalism reigns supreme here but it works because society seems so well ordered.… (View Post)

When the Warsaw Pact collapsed in 1989 and the USSR soon after, the natural response was to assume the “threat” was over and there was no longer a need for large scale conventional forces to be based… (View Post)

There is a possibility we’ll see a China-Europe rapprochement which may be economically helpful to both sides. (View Post)

Morning all from my final day in God’s own country as Richard Seddon, the tallest and one of the longest serving Kiwi Prime Ministers, described coming back to New Zealand in his final message before… (View Post)

Plenty of coverage over here of the “emergency summit” in Paris. The recognition of irrelevance comes easier to some than to others. The truth is from 1945 to 1989 Europe’s “importance” was as a pote… (View Post)