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OPINION

Netanyahu's war, Trump's big gamble

Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/03/2026

» Donald Trump is not just Benjamin Netanyahu's glove puppet, but it is remarkable how much influence the Israeli prime minister has over the American president. If you are seeking a reason why Mr Trump felt the need to attack Iran again, only nine months after he declared that he had eliminated any nuclear threat from that country, you need look no further.

OPINION

After 66 years, Cuba's regime faces reckoning

News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/02/2026

» Fidel Castro and his communist band of brothers have had a good long run in power (66 years), but they have run out of road.

OPINION

Are the Iranians pretending to have nukes?

Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/02/2026

» The Iranian regime is brutal, fanatical and corrupt. It has just committed the mass murder of its own citizens in the city streets and in their own homes. But the story we are told about Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons is very misleading.

OPINION

It could take 1 Danish soldier in Greenland

News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 23/01/2026

» In 1910, Henry Wilson, the British army officer charged with planning for a possible war with Germany, visited the French officer doing the same job in Paris, Ferdinand Foch. The Anglo-French alliance was still a tentative, semi-secret thing, so Wilson asked Foch, "What is the smallest British military force that would be of any practical assistance to you?"

OPINION

Iran: Don't intervene there, Mr Trump

News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/01/2026

» Any day now, the United States will "come to the rescue" of the protesters in the streets of Iran's cities and American bombers will unleash "hell" on the minions of the theocratic regime -- or not, as the case may be.

OPINION

Venezuela: Performative purging

Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/12/2025

» 'If you're on a boat full of cocaine or fentanyl or whatever, headed to the United States, you're an immediate threat to the United States," said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week. So it's perfectly reasonable for the US armed forces to kill everybody on that boat (including a "double tap" on any survivors in the water).

OPINION

Forget Canada. Better invade Venezuela first!

Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/10/2025

» Question: Why do some Canadians want Mr Trump to invade Venezuela?

OPINION

The air war: plywood and Styrofoam

News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/09/2025

» 'Nato is responding with unity and strength," said British defence secretary John Healey. "If you've got drones that are putting Polish lives at risk, then Nato will take them out. There's no firm confirmation on intent, but in the end that's not the point. It's still reckless. It's still dangerous."

OPINION

Greenland, Ukraine and all that stuff

News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/08/2025

» Last Wednesday, the Danish foreign minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, summoned the top US diplomat in Copenhagen to his office to complain that the United States is running a covert operation in Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of the Danish kingdom.

OPINION

China holds back for now over Taiwan

Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/07/2025

» 'I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me we [the US and China] will fight in 2025," wrote General Mike Minihan, head of US Air Mobility Command, in a private memo two years ago. There are still five months to go, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that he's wrong.