World Policies, How it works: Recent Episodes
Roger Mikael Klang
What you didn't know
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The murder on Ötzi from a criminologist's point of view. Regional strategy during the one thousand years short Copper age. Austria was the cultural cradle of the Western world. You heard me! It pre-dates the Egyptian civilization, the Ancient Greeks and the Roman civilization.
Is it a coincidence that the Australian bushfires takes place simultaneously in so many territories at so many places even though it's not bushfire season in but a couple of them?
Do you think that Hezbollah with Iran’s help can tip the balance in the Middle East? And if they do, will there be another “Yom Kippur”?
The Ohio-class Trident II nuclear submarines make up the US strategic second strike capability and a total of 50 percent of the US strategic nuclear capacity.
Putin and Trump are closing in on each other without so many words. It’s the way the big guys like to communicate, with military exercises using fleets and brigades and such.
The British sell aerial bombcarpet photographs to the Germans for astronomical charges, photos taken from the British airplanes that dropped the bombs on Germany in the first place. A million pounds per photo.
Both Russia and the United States are primarily active in Syria due to planned gas pipelines, and due to oil and gas discovered by the Israelis.
Why do you think China would need a Naval base in Djibouti for? I mean, the Chinese don’t even have to pass through the Red Sea with their merchant ships to reach their homeland from the Persian Gulf or from African trading partners.
Russia is dependent on the turncoat state of Turkey and that Beijing does not have Turkey in their pocket.
Who owns the mining corporations which electronic companies utilize to make electronics from Rare Earth Elements (rare metals)?
China's GDP per capita is estimated at $ 16,600 (2017). It's just a 106th place in the world. The Chinese has yet to make an effort to start producing quality goods the way the Japanese did in just a couple of years at the end of the 1970s.
This is not an endorsement of Beijing! What can the CIA's former public site LIGNET teach us? Did in fact Obama and not Trump start or persue the US trade war with China? Who is in fact the biggest dud in international politics, Obama or Trump?
Kosovo intervention and Crimea, are they the same type of intervention? The Kremlin says so.
Why did Russia annex Crimea and initiate a Proxy war in Donbass? This you probably didn't know.
There are only a limited number of Russian ports. But continuing efforts are made to develop the port in Murmansk. What does that mean for countries in the Baltic Sea region?
Fourth and last lesson on NATO. Nato is for me a fire Insurance which you have to be ready to pay the insurance bill for, because a fire could come to your house.
This will make them scratch their heads! In stead of a dozen or so "Little Sweden" in America, why don't we create a "Little America" in Sweden for a change?
Is joining NATO for Sweden a cussioned fall or will we hit the ground hard? Is it a good idea for us to join if we only look at our own needs?
To our friends in the Baltic states. We are not going to leave you hanging even if the US does! It is easy to say but hard to accomplish thou.
In 2014 alone, 190,000 Russians died of AIDS or AIDS-related diseases. 3 percent of all Russian men are infected.
What does it mean for the US in economic terms that the NSA is committing espionage on friendly nations?
The murders of Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei Skripal. Many years apart but still similar.
Germans are sneaky. Who do they think they can hide open source information from? Part two
Germans are sneaky. Who do they think they can hide open source information from? Part one
What kind of a man is Donald Trump? Can he make America great again or is his country going South of the border?
What is Saudi-Arabia up to? Will there be a war between the US and Iran, and will Saudi-Arabia be a belligerent part of that war? How will China respond?
How can a smaller country in Africa's east inland affect World politics to such an extent?
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