Armenia is sending a delegation to Antalya, Turkey on March 1 to participate in a diplomacy forum, and Macron went to Armenia yesterday as Armenia announced it has frozen its participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a paper tiger Russia set up as an “alternative” to NATO but so far has been rather toothless. …
Monthly Archives: February 2024
But why NATO?
Why does NATO exist? Let’s look at history. In 1800, there were only a handful of democracies in the world. The United States and France, though France, were in decline. The United States had a massive slave population, so by modern standards, the United States was not a democracy. There were no democracies to be …
Possible futures
We are standing at a crossroads where our leaders must decide what future we want. Despotism On the one hand, we can have a future where we might make right. Israel has more weapons than Palestinians, so they have the right to kill them all. Russia has nukes, and Ukraine does not, thanks to Bill …
The Simple Solution to Homicide
So I have a dataset that I have curated from public data over the last 7 years and continuously updated with the latest data. I include data focusing on political economics (look at this blog, surprised?) and it includes lots of variables. For this regression, I handpicked the following statistics: pfi 2021 is the Press …
Capital Punishment
Makes it clear which side Republican states are on. I didn’t like the Wikipedia map of capital punishment because it didn’t include US states and the US has a moratorium on federal executions thanks to Biden.
Worse than Tories
UK and Germany back a sustainable ceasefire So why can’t the United States? David Cameron is the foreign minister of the United Kingdom. Yes, the same Prime Minister who led Britain into its largest foreign policy debacle since the colonial era. I disagree with David Cameron on most issues. He was a horrible Prime Minister …
Why the Western Balkans haven’t joined the European Union
A response to How the EU Failed the Western Balkans by TLDR News. The reason the Western Balkans have not joined the European Union is simple: the remaining Western Balkan states have not finished closing their accession chapters to join the European Union. If we use the Democracy Index, Montenegro, Albania, and Macedonia all had …
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What I want
I want a world where everyone in the world has the opportunity to succeed in life, where the only barrier is themselves. I understand this is a long way to go, but there are specific policies we can do to improve lives around the world. Social policy Reinstate work visas for low-income work. End private …
More on the genocide in Palestine
Every day when I scroll on Instagram I see pictures from the American Friends Service Committee and the UU Service Committee streaming out of Gaza of children getting blown up by American bombs being shot by the Israelis. I also see the same thing from Russians blowing up Ukrainian grandmothers. Why is it …
US Greenhouse gas emissions breakdown
We need to stop climate change. I feel like everyone knows this. The easiest, cheapest, and fastest way to do this is through a carbon tax, even before accounting for the double dividend. But why? Why can’t we regulate our way out of climate change without carbon pricing? Source: EPA Transportation is the largest source …