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Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 29, 2026
This month’s killing in Iran is on a whole different scale in the nation’s history, and the past is no guide to the future, writes Gwynne Dyer. Screenshot courtesy of BBC News
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 29, 2026
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 29, 2026
This month’s killing in Iran is on a whole different scale in the nation’s history, and the past is no guide to the future, writes Gwynne Dyer. Screenshot courtesy of BBC News
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 26, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, went into last week’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, full of bluster, but he ultimately back-tracked on threats to Greenland, and tariff nations that support the territory, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of the World Economic Forum/Ciaran McCrickard
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 26, 2026
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 26, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, went into last week’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, full of bluster, but he ultimately back-tracked on threats to Greenland, and tariff nations that support the territory, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of the World Economic Forum/Ciaran McCrickard
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 22, 2026
United States President Donald Trump often changes his mind, and the number of times he has said he will use force on Greenland is far greater than the times he has said he won’t, writes Gwynne Dyer White House photograph by Molly Riley
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 22, 2026
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 22, 2026
United States President Donald Trump often changes his mind, and the number of times he has said he will use force on Greenland is far greater than the times he has said he won’t, writes Gwynne Dyer White House photograph by Molly Riley
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 19, 2026
Donald Trump
Why is U.S. President Donald Trump so obsessed with Greenland? The best guess in NATO circles is that it’s an extension of his old mania of putting his name on every hotel he owned. In this case, it gets his name in American history books, writes Gwynne Dyer.  White House photograph by Joyce N. Boghosia
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 19, 2026
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 19, 2026
Donald Trump
Why is U.S. President Donald Trump so obsessed with Greenland? The best guess in NATO circles is that it’s an extension of his old mania of putting his name on every hotel he owned. In this case, it gets his name in American history books, writes Gwynne Dyer.  White House photograph by Joyce N. Boghosia
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 15, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump has promised too much already to do absolutely nothing about the massacre of protesters in Iran, but he should do the absolute minimum he thinks he can get away with, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 15, 2026
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 15, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump has promised too much already to do absolutely nothing about the massacre of protesters in Iran, but he should do the absolute minimum he thinks he can get away with, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 12, 2026
If U.S. President Donald Trump invades Greenland then NATO, the military alliance that has played a large part in preventing a nuclear war for the past 75 years, dies, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Molly Riley
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 12, 2026
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 12, 2026
If U.S. President Donald Trump invades Greenland then NATO, the military alliance that has played a large part in preventing a nuclear war for the past 75 years, dies, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Molly Riley
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 8, 2026
President Donald Trump has insisted that the United States needs ‘Greenland from the standpoint of national security.' White House photograph by Molly Riley
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 8, 2026
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 8, 2026
President Donald Trump has insisted that the United States needs ‘Greenland from the standpoint of national security.' White House photograph by Molly Riley
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 5, 2026
Donald Trump
Without boots on the ground, U.S. President Donald Trump has limited leverage on the Venezuelan regime, which has not been seriously crippled by the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 5, 2026
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 5, 2026
Donald Trump
Without boots on the ground, U.S. President Donald Trump has limited leverage on the Venezuelan regime, which has not been seriously crippled by the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 22, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured on Aug. 15, 2025, at the Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. Maybe all this time we have been looking in the wrong place for an answer to the question: why does Trump always yield to Putin? Photograph courtesy of the White House/Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 22, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 22, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured on Aug. 15, 2025, at the Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. Maybe all this time we have been looking in the wrong place for an answer to the question: why does Trump always yield to Putin? Photograph courtesy of the White House/Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 18, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a second-generation Cuban-American whose parents immigrated several years before Fidel Castro’s Communist regime took power. That history has shaped his politics, writes Gwynne Dyer. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 18, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 18, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a second-generation Cuban-American whose parents immigrated several years before Fidel Castro’s Communist regime took power. That history has shaped his politics, writes Gwynne Dyer. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 16, 2025
A majority of early-career climate scientists now see geoengineering as necessary and inevitable, while many senior ones are still in transition, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 16, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 16, 2025
A majority of early-career climate scientists now see geoengineering as necessary and inevitable, while many senior ones are still in transition, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 11, 2025
Donald Trump
United States President Trump’s hyperactive foreign policy record is clearly driven by his obsessive pursuit of a Nobel Peace Prize, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 11, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 11, 2025
Donald Trump
United States President Trump’s hyperactive foreign policy record is clearly driven by his obsessive pursuit of a Nobel Peace Prize, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 8, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, President Donald Trump, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Trumpworld is going to be a place in which the great powers do what they want, limited only by the strength of other great powers, while the lesser countries do what they are told, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 8, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 8, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, President Donald Trump, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Trumpworld is going to be a place in which the great powers do what they want, limited only by the strength of other great powers, while the lesser countries do what they are told, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 1, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with the country’s president, Isaac Herzog, in 2022. Netanyahu has asked Herzog to pardon him in his ongoing corruption trial. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 1, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 1, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with the country’s president, Isaac Herzog, in 2022. Netanyahu has asked Herzog to pardon him in his ongoing corruption trial. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 26, 2025
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin participate in a joint press conference after their meeting at the Arctic Warrior Event Center at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 2025. Trump and Putin are trying to destroy the international rule of law, writes columnist Gwynne Dyer Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 26, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 26, 2025
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin participate in a joint press conference after their meeting at the Arctic Warrior Event Center at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 2025. Trump and Putin are trying to destroy the international rule of law, writes columnist Gwynne Dyer Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 25, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s job is to know if and when the morale of the Ukrainian army and the general public is starting to break, writes Gwynne Dyer. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 25, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 25, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s job is to know if and when the morale of the Ukrainian army and the general public is starting to break, writes Gwynne Dyer. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 12, 2025
Pro-Trump rioters occupied Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021. Ahead of the protest in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump had posted it would 'be wild.' Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 12, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 12, 2025
Pro-Trump rioters occupied Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021. Ahead of the protest in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump had posted it would 'be wild.' Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 10, 2025
Nothing very impressive is likely to come out of the UN climate conference despite the urgency of the situation, writes Gwynne Dyer. UN photograph courtesy by Kiara Worth
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 10, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 10, 2025
Nothing very impressive is likely to come out of the UN climate conference despite the urgency of the situation, writes Gwynne Dyer. UN photograph courtesy by Kiara Worth
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 6, 2025
Displaced people arrive in South Sudan from Sudan through the Joda border crossing. Killing in Sudan has been non-stop since October. It’s the worst massacre yet in a civil war that has already killed 150,000 people and made one-third of the population refugees, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of the United Nations by Ala Kheir
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 6, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 6, 2025
Displaced people arrive in South Sudan from Sudan through the Joda border crossing. Killing in Sudan has been non-stop since October. It’s the worst massacre yet in a civil war that has already killed 150,000 people and made one-third of the population refugees, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of the United Nations by Ala Kheir
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 3, 2025
Donald Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump can infallibly trick the public into drawing their attention away from something else that he doesn’t want them to see, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 3, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 3, 2025
Donald Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump can infallibly trick the public into drawing their attention away from something else that he doesn’t want them to see, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 29, 2025
Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still wants to get the Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip, but this may no longer require a confrontation with Donald Trump, writes Gwynne Dyer White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 29, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 29, 2025
Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still wants to get the Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip, but this may no longer require a confrontation with Donald Trump, writes Gwynne Dyer White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 27, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, is doing everything possible to look like he is serious about overthrowing Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela by force, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 27, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 27, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, is doing everything possible to look like he is serious about overthrowing Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela by force, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 22, 2025
Last month, unidentified drones forced Denmark to shut down its airports on several occasions, and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that Russian involvement could not be ruled out. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 22, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 22, 2025
Last month, unidentified drones forced Denmark to shut down its airports on several occasions, and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that Russian involvement could not be ruled out. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 16, 2025
In the latest example of American influence, Argentina President Javier Milei, left, has welcomed Donald Trump’s $20-billion bailout even as the American president mused about the country’s elections, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore 
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 16, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 16, 2025
In the latest example of American influence, Argentina President Javier Milei, left, has welcomed Donald Trump’s $20-billion bailout even as the American president mused about the country’s elections, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore 
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 15, 2025
The biggest players in the system supporting AI are spending vast amounts of borrowed money on a technology they don’t even fully understand, writes Gwynne Dyer. Image courtesy of Gerd Altmann/Pixabay
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 15, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 15, 2025
The biggest players in the system supporting AI are spending vast amounts of borrowed money on a technology they don’t even fully understand, writes Gwynne Dyer. Image courtesy of Gerd Altmann/Pixabay
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 8, 2025
Jane Goodall, pictured in 2019, died on Oct. 1 at the age of 91. She was also one of the greatest self-taught scientists in history, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/Simon Fraser University 
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 8, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 8, 2025
Jane Goodall, pictured in 2019, died on Oct. 1 at the age of 91. She was also one of the greatest self-taught scientists in history, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/Simon Fraser University 
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 7, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, has a very short attention span, but he was able to bully Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into at least the opening stages of a ceasefire, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 7, 2025
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 7, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, has a very short attention span, but he was able to bully Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into at least the opening stages of a ceasefire, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 8, 2022
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, pictured Sept. 9, 2020. The words that members of the British public used to describe Johnson in the aftermath of last weekend’s failed attempt by parliamentary members of his own Conservative Party to remove him from office had a weirdly antique ring. Nobody in England really talks like that any more, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Flickr
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 8, 2022
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 8, 2022
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, pictured Sept. 9, 2020. The words that members of the British public used to describe Johnson in the aftermath of last weekend’s failed attempt by parliamentary members of his own Conservative Party to remove him from office had a weirdly antique ring. Nobody in England really talks like that any more, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Flickr
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 6, 2022
Nupur Sharma, pictured left, apologized for her remarks about the Prophet Muhammad after she was suspended from the BJP. The BJP’s Delhi media chief Naveen K. Jindal, who tweeted support for Sharma, has been expelled outright. Is the BJP turning over a new leaf? Not at all. It is frantically back-pedalling to assuage the anger of the oil-rich Muslim countries of the Gulf, which provide most of India’s oil and employ millions of its workers. The BJP’s war on Islam is for domestic purposes only, writes Gwynne Dyer. Image courtesy of YouTube
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 6, 2022
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 6, 2022
Nupur Sharma, pictured left, apologized for her remarks about the Prophet Muhammad after she was suspended from the BJP. The BJP’s Delhi media chief Naveen K. Jindal, who tweeted support for Sharma, has been expelled outright. Is the BJP turning over a new leaf? Not at all. It is frantically back-pedalling to assuage the anger of the oil-rich Muslim countries of the Gulf, which provide most of India’s oil and employ millions of its workers. The BJP’s war on Islam is for domestic purposes only, writes Gwynne Dyer. Image courtesy of YouTube
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 2, 2022
The Thwaites Ice Shelf, pictured Oct. 16, 2012, as seen from the NASA DC-8. 'At Thwaites, the most vulnerable ice shelf on the planet, the major inflow of warm water is through a channel four kilometres across. And we initially thought, as stupid scientists, that we would just block that (four-kilometre channel) with rubble or dirt, you know, make a dam,' British glaciologist John Moore recalled. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/NASA ICE/James Yungel
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 2, 2022
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 2, 2022
The Thwaites Ice Shelf, pictured Oct. 16, 2012, as seen from the NASA DC-8. 'At Thwaites, the most vulnerable ice shelf on the planet, the major inflow of warm water is through a channel four kilometres across. And we initially thought, as stupid scientists, that we would just block that (four-kilometre channel) with rubble or dirt, you know, make a dam,' British glaciologist John Moore recalled. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/NASA ICE/James Yungel
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 25, 2022
When asked on May 23 if the U.S. would be 'willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that?' U.S. President Joe Biden said yes, replying 'that’s a commitment we made. The idea that (Taiwan) could be taken by force, just taken by force, is not ... it would dislocate the entire region and be another action similar to what happened in Ukraine.' Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 25, 2022
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 25, 2022
When asked on May 23 if the U.S. would be 'willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that?' U.S. President Joe Biden said yes, replying 'that’s a commitment we made. The idea that (Taiwan) could be taken by force, just taken by force, is not ... it would dislocate the entire region and be another action similar to what happened in Ukraine.' Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 16, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured Feb. 7, 2022, in the Kremlin in Moscow. The Swedish and Finnish response to his invasion of Ukraine would have surprised Putin. He would see no connection between his invasion of Ukraine, a former Russian imperial possession that needed to be whipped back into line, and two independent countries that have not been in Russia’s sphere of influence for more than a century, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 16, 2022
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 16, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured Feb. 7, 2022, in the Kremlin in Moscow. The Swedish and Finnish response to his invasion of Ukraine would have surprised Putin. He would see no connection between his invasion of Ukraine, a former Russian imperial possession that needed to be whipped back into line, and two independent countries that have not been in Russia’s sphere of influence for more than a century, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 11, 2022
'Bongbong' Marcos, pictured in June 2014, won the presidential election in the Philippines by a landslide despite having virtually no accomplishments other than being an entitled son of a former president, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 11, 2022
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 11, 2022
'Bongbong' Marcos, pictured in June 2014, won the presidential election in the Philippines by a landslide despite having virtually no accomplishments other than being an entitled son of a former president, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 9, 2022
Following last weekend's election where Sinn Féin won the largest number of seats in Northern Ireland's history, the party's leader in the North, Michelle O’Neill, avoided triumphalist talk of a referendum on unification with the Republic, and focused instead on bread-and-butter issues, writes Gwynne Dyer Photograph courtesy of Sinn Féin/Flickr
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 9, 2022
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 9, 2022
Following last weekend's election where Sinn Féin won the largest number of seats in Northern Ireland's history, the party's leader in the North, Michelle O’Neill, avoided triumphalist talk of a referendum on unification with the Republic, and focused instead on bread-and-butter issues, writes Gwynne Dyer Photograph courtesy of Sinn Féin/Flickr
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 5, 2022
President Vladimir Putin's Russia is not Mordor, writes Gwynne Dyer. It is a second-rate great power that must be respected because it has a lot of nuclear weapons, but it poses no serious threat to the security of the rest of Europe or to democracy. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 5, 2022
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 5, 2022
President Vladimir Putin's Russia is not Mordor, writes Gwynne Dyer. It is a second-rate great power that must be respected because it has a lot of nuclear weapons, but it poses no serious threat to the security of the rest of Europe or to democracy. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 2, 2022
Xi Jinping
Chinese President Xi Jinping has made victory over COVID his signature achievement, so there can't be any doubt, especially when he is planning to make his dictator-for-life status official, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 2, 2022
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | May 2, 2022
Xi Jinping
Chinese President Xi Jinping has made victory over COVID his signature achievement, so there can't be any doubt, especially when he is planning to make his dictator-for-life status official, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | April 28, 2022
In a press briefing at the Polish border last week after a quick visit to Kyiv, U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said the U.S. wanted to see Russia 'weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine.' The official U.S. goal now is to reduce Russia to a state so weak that it cannot credibly threaten Ukraine, and keep it there, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | April 28, 2022
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | April 28, 2022
In a press briefing at the Polish border last week after a quick visit to Kyiv, U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said the U.S. wanted to see Russia 'weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine.' The official U.S. goal now is to reduce Russia to a state so weak that it cannot credibly threaten Ukraine, and keep it there, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons