• OPINION

  3 wars, 2 truces: at least some hope out there

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/04/2022

  » Two weeks ago, the three biggest wars in the world were in Ukraine, Ethiopia and Yemen. Now truces have silenced the guns and the air strikes in two of the three. They are only temporary truces so far, but there is a reasonable chance that they could grow into something more permanent.

• OPINION

  Ukraine: lessons for Taiwan, and for China too

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 23/03/2022

  » Almost a month in, China is still being extremely coy about its attitude towards the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The regime is acutely aware that there are many parallels between the Russian-Ukrainian relationship and the Chinese-Taiwanese one, and that the Russian attempt to conquer Ukraine is failing, or at least stalled.

• OPINION

  Ukraine: a short pause for thought

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/03/2022

  » Two weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine and still no "decapitation" of the Ukrainian government. In the past week, no city has been captured except Kherson, and maybe 2,000 military dead on each side.

• OPINION

  South Korea's gender politics getting ugly

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/03/2022

  » Gender is not the only issue in this week's election in South Korea, but it's the hot-button topic. It's not clear if there was ever a successful sexual revolution in the country, but the counter-revolution is definitely doing well. The 'F-word' (feminism) is being used a lot by both major parties, and not in a good way.

• OPINION

  Chagos: a 50-year-old UK-US crime

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/02/2022

  » 'The object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours.... There will be no indigenous population except seagulls," wrote Sir Paul Gore-Booth, a senior official at the British Foreign Office, as the plan to expel the 2,000 Chagos Islanders from their homes was taking shape in 1966. "We must surely be very tough about this."

• OPINION

  Coups are all the rage again in beleaguered Africa

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/02/2022

  » Military coups are back in fashion in Africa. There have been over 200 attempted coups in the continent since 1960, about half of them successful, but in the past two decades they had dropped to only two a year. Last year saw six, however, and there have been two already this year. The latest in Guinea-Bissau.

• OPINION

  The rise and fall of sociopathic leadership

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/02/2022

  » Igenerally leave the psychohistory to Hari Seldon, but just this once I feel sufficiently motivated to venture into the field. The immediate spur for this departure is the spectacle -- half-fascination, half-disgust -- of Boris Johnson, Britain's part-time prime minister, gradually foundering in a sea of his own lies. But there are other examples, too.

• OPINION

  Will Russia opt to play the 'Cuban card'?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/01/2022

  » After a week of intense discussions about "security" between Russia and the Nato countries, this is the week when the Western allies will send their written replies to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Various pundits, some of whom have actually been to Russia, warn us that there will be "War in Europe" if Mr Putin's demands are not met.

• OPINION

  China: No more being Mister Nice Guy

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/01/2022

  » More than 200 Hong Kong police raided and shut down one of the last pro-democracy news websites in Hong Kong before on Wed of Dec 29, in the latest sign that the Beijing regime will no longer tolerate dissent of any kind. It was total overkill -- a couple of cops with a court order would have sufficed -- but they were 'sending a message' to other "malcontents".

• OPINION

  Despite claims, Russia unlikely to take Ukraine

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/12/2021

  » I must admit that I googled the plot of the 1997 film Wag the Dog before starting to write this. It's a dark comedy about a US president facing a sex scandal whose staff invent a completely fictional war in the Balkans to draw the media's attention elsewhere. But sex scandals are not the Biden administration's style.

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