Myanmar’s junta in a serious but not desperate fight

Born of Europe’s 19th century wars, it was the quip that neatly captured the difference involving the hard-boiled Prussians from the north German ordinary and the fun-loving Viennese of the Austro-Hungarian Disposition: the Prussian states the situation is serious but not desperate; the Viennese says it is desperate but not serious. Which of today’s Southeast Asian […]

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Geopolitical linkage of anti-US powers

US President Joe Biden’s administration appears keen on rejoining the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Barack Obama administration’s so-called “Iran deal” that notionally guaranteed Iran would not produce nuclear weapons.  A deal remains unlikely. Nevertheless, the very fact that the Biden administration has doggedly pursued the chimerical agreement for so long, and in the […]

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