28 Saturday Jun 2025
Posted in anthropology, Polemic, political science, Politics
Martyn Richard Jones
President Donald Trump’s recent comments about NATO do not indicate a call for collective security reform. Instead, they reveal an intensely transactional view of international partnerships. Urging alliance members to assign as much as 5% of their GDP, an unprecedented figure, to purchasing U.S.-made weaponry and military equipment, Trump has once again reframed global security as a business deal.
Continue reading12 Wednesday Mar 2025
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
Afilonius Rex, Brussels, 12th March 2025
“What’s the world’s greatest lie?” the boy asked, completely surprised.
“It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie”.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The big lie? Many proclaim it, many people propagate it, and many people exaggerate it.
What am I?
Correct. External interference, disinformation and coercion in domestic politics.
Continue reading19 Sunday Jan 2025
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
Afilonius Rex, Madrid, 18th January 2025.
Profound antagonism has existed between Russia and Western Europe since the times of the Czars. Leading roles in this perpetual drama have been racism, imperialism, arrogance, ignorance, personal ambitions and paranoia. The biggest problem in the room is that Russia understands the West too well and that the West is deliberately stubborn when it comes to putting itself in the shoes of Russia.
There are elements on all sides who are nostalgic about the Cold War and believe that it should be the natural state of things, not just some terrible and painful relic of how not to live in peace, harmony and cooperation.
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