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Understanding MBS

There has been much speculation regarding Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s pivot away from Israel. Does he still favor normalization with Israel or does he not? The most important thing to understand about MBS at present is his domestic weakness. This is why the volume of Jew hatred has been turned up rather than…

Turkey must let Median Jews Emigrate to Israel

Israel has no interest in subverting the political system in Turkey. Israel also has no illusions about the Islamist leadership in Turkey and their existential hostility towards Israel. However, if Ankara does not allow Median Jews to emigrate to Israel, then Israel and its ally, the Sabbatean-Bektashi controlled Derin Devlet deep state intelligence apparatus have…

Enhancement, Gestation and Emancipation

Once all genes of the human genome have been mapped in all their functions, human genetic enhancement will in principle become safe and unstoppable. The issue is not whether mass genetic enhancement will take place – it will – but rather what legal safeguards will be put around it. There are a number of problems…

Transatlantic Reconciliation

The transatlantic community must at some point reconcile and that must include a proper appraisal of the person at the center of the dispute; United States President Donald J. Trump. The universally held belief in Europe from ordinary people in the street to the highest echelons of power is that President Trump is ”a madman”.…

Equal Partnership

Russia seeks to conquer first Europe and then thus strengthened into a Eurasian empire also North America, specifically the USA, Canada and Greenland. America needs a partner of equal footing in Europe, not a bunch of vassals that America effectively subsidizes. Yes it is true that North America also faces a military threat from Russia…

Federalism in Syria is an American Interest

Is federalism in Syria an American interest? Yes, because any absence of federalism will be synonymous with instability. Syria is highly multiethnic and not much more than half of the population belongs to the Sunni Arab majority. The current regime represents almost exclusively Sunni Arabs to the exclusion of everyone else. Furthermore, there is danger…

Open Letter to Reza Pahlavi

I am writing to you as someone enormously sympathetic to your cause. However, I will be blunt about where you fail. I agree with you that removing the monstrous mullah regime is a moral imperative. However, it appears to me that you are a little naive about the prospects for liberal democracy in Iran and…

The American-European Rift

While good diplomacy is exoteric and idealist on the surface and esoteric and interest-driven below the surface, this distinction appears to have collapsed in both the United States and the European Union. In the US interests are overtly – and it could be argued even brutally –  articulated without an exoteric surface layer. In Europe…

It’s Realpolitik Stupid

Diplomacy is exoteric/esoteric. Exoterically diplomacy is typically moralizing and speaking in terms of ”universal values”, i.e. notions derived from Christianity and through Christian imperialism. On the esoteric level it is all about national interests which are more value-neutral and non-moralizing. While it can be argued that certain values such as liberal democracy, secularism and even…

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