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Is Trump twigging to 'rational accommodationism'?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/12/2017
» Here we go again. Whenever North Korea launches a new long-range missile or does another nuclear test, US President Donald Trump condemns the test and warns Pyongyang not to do it again, while his generals and diplomats point out that it "threatens the entire world". But latterly, the pattern has been evolving.
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Puigdemont's tactics mostly work in Catalonia vote
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/10/2017
» Catalan nationalist leader Carles Puigdemont got most of what he wanted out of the chaotic pseudo-referendum on Sunday: 761 people injured by the Spanish police trying to block it.
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Dial back on the rhetoric to deal with N Korea's nukes
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/09/2017
» The last time when North Korean nuclear weapons might have been headed off by diplomacy was 15-20 years ago, when there was a deal freezing North Korean work on nuclear weapons, and then one stopping the country's work on long-range ballistic missiles.
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Despite 'total victory', no peace yet in Iraq or Syria
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/07/2017
» The shooting was still going on down by the river last week when Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi dropped by and prematurely declared that the battle for Mosul was over. He was misled by the various Iraqi army, police and militia units who were competing with one another to declare victory first, but now it really is over -- and there is little left of Mosul.
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The North Korea crisis: Why now?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/05/2017
» Apart from Donald Trump's need for a dramatic foreign policy initiative, is there any good reason why we are having a crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons testing now?
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The vanishing civilians of Aleppo
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/12/2016
» Did it cross your mind occasionally, in the past week, to wonder where all of the "250,000 civilians trapped in eastern Aleppo" have gone? As the area of the city under rebel control dwindled -- by Wednesday morning the Syrian regime's troops had recaptured three-quarters of it -- did you see massive columns of fleeing civilians, or mounds of civilian dead?
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Mosul and Aleppo, a tale of two sieges
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/10/2016
» Two great sieges are getting under way in the Middle East, one in Mosul in Iraq and the other in Aleppo in Syria. They have a great deal in common, including the fact that the attackers both depend heavily on foreign air power, but they are treated by most international media as though they were completely different events. How similar they are will become clearer with the passage of time.
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Welcome all to humanity's epoch
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/09/2016
» Geology moves very slowly, and so do geologists. The Working Group on the Anthropocene was set up in 2009, but only presented its recommendation to the International Geological Congress in Cape Town last Monday. The Working Group's experts have concluded that we are now living in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. That is, the epoch when human beings are reshaping the Earth.
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Wrecked Iraq a symbol of stupidity
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/07/2016
» "Suppose that... the Iraqis feel ambivalent about being invaded and real Iraqis, not (just) Saddam's special guard, decide to offer resistance," wrote British prime minister Tony Blair to US president George W Bush in December 2001, two years before the US and the UK invaded Iraq. At least Mr Blair had some doubts, but neither man could really imagine that the Iraqis would see them as conquerors, not liberators.
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The US and Russia agree on Syria
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/08/2016
» Great states hate to admit error, so when they have to change course they generally try to disguise the fact. That's why you may not have heard much about the way that the United States has changed course in Syria in the past three months.
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