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Gwynne Dyer is a United Kingdom-based independent journalist who writes a column for The Hill Times.

Surviving the population crash

  • The challenge is how to make our way safely down from the old high-birth-rate regime to a new low-birth-rate future because the present pace
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | February 12, 2026
France's Marine Le Pen, left, the United Kingdom's Nigel Farage, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, and United States President Donald Trump. A phalanx of right-wing populists either in power or closing in on it are painting immigration as a threat, and peddling ‘great replacement’ narratives to the angry and the ignorant. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and Flickr

Surviving the population crash

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | February 12, 2026
  • The challenge is how to make our way safely down from the old high-birth-rate regime to a new low-birth-rate future because the present pace

Surviving the population crash

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | February 12, 2026
  • The challenge is how to make our way safely down from the old high-birth-rate regime to a new low-birth-rate future because the present pace
France's Marine Le Pen, left, the United Kingdom's Nigel Farage, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, and United States President Donald Trump. A phalanx of right-wing populists either in power or closing in on it are painting immigration as a threat, and peddling ‘great replacement’ narratives to the angry and the ignorant. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and Flickr

The curious case of China’s disappearing generals

  • All six members of China’s highest military body have been dismissed on suspicion of corruption, including last month the vice-chair, Zhang Youxia, one of
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | February 9, 2026
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping
China’s highest military body is the Central Military Commission, with President Xi Jinping himself in the chair in his parallel role as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

The curious case of China’s disappearing generals

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | February 9, 2026
  • All six members of China’s highest military body have been dismissed on suspicion of corruption, including last month the vice-chair, Zhang Youxia, one of

The curious case of China’s disappearing generals

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | February 9, 2026
  • All six members of China’s highest military body have been dismissed on suspicion of corruption, including last month the vice-chair, Zhang Youxia, one of
Xi Jinping
China’s highest military body is the Central Military Commission, with President Xi Jinping himself in the chair in his parallel role as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

The last arms control treaty expires

  • The American president knows nothing about nuclear weapons, and doesn’t care. He is not a man who will put any effort into rebuilding a
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | February 5, 2026
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin
United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured in July 2018, are both reckless men, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Shealah Craighead

The last arms control treaty expires

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | February 5, 2026
  • The American president knows nothing about nuclear weapons, and doesn’t care. He is not a man who will put any effort into rebuilding a

The last arms control treaty expires

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | February 5, 2026
  • The American president knows nothing about nuclear weapons, and doesn’t care. He is not a man who will put any effort into rebuilding a
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin
United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured in July 2018, are both reckless men, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Shealah Craighead

Is Iran pretending to have nukes?

  • Iran’s former ayatollah declared the development and use of weapons of mass destruction forbidden on moral and religious grounds. We should take this decree
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | February 4, 2026
It’s possible that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, pictured, has followed the same stupid strategy as Saddam Hussein did in Iraq, and is approaching the same ugly consequences, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Is Iran pretending to have nukes?

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | February 4, 2026
  • Iran’s former ayatollah declared the development and use of weapons of mass destruction forbidden on moral and religious grounds. We should take this decree

Is Iran pretending to have nukes?

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | February 4, 2026
  • Iran’s former ayatollah declared the development and use of weapons of mass destruction forbidden on moral and religious grounds. We should take this decree
It’s possible that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, pictured, has followed the same stupid strategy as Saddam Hussein did in Iraq, and is approaching the same ugly consequences, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Iran an active case study on whether massacres work

  • The regime will effectively be an occupation force that rules only by terror—but such regimes can last a long time if they are ruthless
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

Iran an active case study on whether massacres work

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 29, 2026
  • The regime will effectively be an occupation force that rules only by terror—but such regimes can last a long time if they are ruthless

Iran an active case study on whether massacres work

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 29, 2026
  • The regime will effectively be an occupation force that rules only by terror—but such regimes can last a long time if they are ruthless
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

After Davos, Trump confronts an inflection point

  • Prime Minister Mark Carney’s remarkable speech at Davos said what many political and economic elites were thinking: don’t let the bullies win; fear is
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

After Davos, Trump confronts an inflection point

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 26, 2026
  • Prime Minister Mark Carney’s remarkable speech at Davos said what many political and economic elites were thinking: don’t let the bullies win; fear is

After Davos, Trump confronts an inflection point

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 26, 2026
  • Prime Minister Mark Carney’s remarkable speech at Davos said what many political and economic elites were thinking: don’t let the bullies win; fear is
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

One Danish soldier

  • If even one soldier dies in Greenland due to American aggression, NATO nations would be forced to step in.
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

One Danish soldier

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 22, 2026
  • If even one soldier dies in Greenland due to American aggression, NATO nations would be forced to step in.

One Danish soldier

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 22, 2026
  • If even one soldier dies in Greenland due to American aggression, NATO nations would be forced to step in.
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

Trump versus NATO, target Greenland

  • For Canada, the problem is that all the (false) American arguments to justify annexing Greenland apply equally to Canada. The strategy seems to be
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 19, 2026
Donald Trump
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

Trump versus NATO, target Greenland

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 19, 2026
  • For Canada, the problem is that all the (false) American arguments to justify annexing Greenland apply equally to Canada. The strategy seems to be

Trump versus NATO, target Greenland

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 19, 2026
  • For Canada, the problem is that all the (false) American arguments to justify annexing Greenland apply equally to Canada. The strategy seems to be
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

Why America intervening in Iran is a bad idea

  • LONDON, U.K.— Any day now, the United States will “come to the rescue” of the protesters in the streets of Iran’s cities, and American
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

Why America intervening in Iran is a bad idea

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 15, 2026
  • LONDON, U.K.— Any day now, the United States will “come to the rescue” of the protesters in the streets of Iran’s cities, and American

Why America intervening in Iran is a bad idea

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 15, 2026
  • LONDON, U.K.— Any day now, the United States will “come to the rescue” of the protesters in the streets of Iran’s cities, and American
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

How NATO members can take on Trump’s Greenland—and Canadian—obsession

  • Ottawa should offer military forces to protect Greenland from Russia and China, and ask the Europeans to send some troops to Canada for protection.
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

How NATO members can take on Trump’s Greenland—and Canadian—obsession

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 12, 2026
  • Ottawa should offer military forces to protect Greenland from Russia and China, and ask the Europeans to send some troops to Canada for protection.

How NATO members can take on Trump’s Greenland—and Canadian—obsession

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 12, 2026
  • Ottawa should offer military forces to protect Greenland from Russia and China, and ask the Europeans to send some troops to Canada for protection.
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

Trump’s case for a Greenland invasion is utter hogwash

  • Despite what the U.S. president says, Greenland is a region of zero strategic importance. If Washington wants to base more troops there, it has
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

Trump’s case for a Greenland invasion is utter hogwash

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 8, 2026
  • Despite what the U.S. president says, Greenland is a region of zero strategic importance. If Washington wants to base more troops there, it has

Trump’s case for a Greenland invasion is utter hogwash

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 8, 2026
  • Despite what the U.S. president says, Greenland is a region of zero strategic importance. If Washington wants to base more troops there, it has
President Donald Trump has insisted that the United States needs ‘Greenland from the standpoint of national security.' White House photograph by Molly Riley

Imagining a post-Ayatollah Iran

  • Of the Iranian regime’s proxies, all but one are defunct or gravely weakened. Syria has changed sides, Hamas in the Gaza Strip is defeated
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 6, 2026
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is facing protests as the country struggles under the collapse of its currency and the explosive rise in the cost of living. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Imagining a post-Ayatollah Iran

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 6, 2026
  • Of the Iranian regime’s proxies, all but one are defunct or gravely weakened. Syria has changed sides, Hamas in the Gaza Strip is defeated

Imagining a post-Ayatollah Iran

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 6, 2026
  • Of the Iranian regime’s proxies, all but one are defunct or gravely weakened. Syria has changed sides, Hamas in the Gaza Strip is defeated
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is facing protests as the country struggles under the collapse of its currency and the explosive rise in the cost of living. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Trump, Venezuela, and seriously bad decisions

  • From Napoleon in Spain two centuries ago to the U.S. army in Iraq two decades ago, military occupations by foreigners usually generate armed resistance
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 5, 2026
Donald Trump
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

Trump, Venezuela, and seriously bad decisions

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 5, 2026
  • From Napoleon in Spain two centuries ago to the U.S. army in Iraq two decades ago, military occupations by foreigners usually generate armed resistance

Trump, Venezuela, and seriously bad decisions

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | January 5, 2026
  • From Napoleon in Spain two centuries ago to the U.S. army in Iraq two decades ago, military occupations by foreigners usually generate armed resistance
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

Derzhavnost and ‘respect’

  • LONDON, U.K.—The Russian word “derzhavnost” is usually translated as “great power status,” but the real meaning is closer to the gangland concept of “respect.”
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

Derzhavnost and ‘respect’

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 22, 2025
  • LONDON, U.K.—The Russian word “derzhavnost” is usually translated as “great power status,” but the real meaning is closer to the gangland concept of “respect.”

Derzhavnost and ‘respect’

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 22, 2025
  • LONDON, U.K.—The Russian word “derzhavnost” is usually translated as “great power status,” but the real meaning is closer to the gangland concept of “respect.”
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

Rubio’s fantasy and the risk of forever war in Venezuela

  • ‘In my opinion, the three regimes that exist in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba are enemies of humanity,’ said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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

Rubio’s fantasy and the risk of forever war in Venezuela

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 18, 2025
  • ‘In my opinion, the three regimes that exist in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba are enemies of humanity,’ said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Rubio’s fantasy and the risk of forever war in Venezuela

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 18, 2025
  • ‘In my opinion, the three regimes that exist in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba are enemies of humanity,’ said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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

Geoengineering for grown-ups

  • We need to use every viable technique to hold the average global temperature down while we work frantically to end our emissions.
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

Geoengineering for grown-ups

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 16, 2025
  • We need to use every viable technique to hold the average global temperature down while we work frantically to end our emissions.

Geoengineering for grown-ups

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 16, 2025
  • We need to use every viable technique to hold the average global temperature down while we work frantically to end our emissions.
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

Trump’s many ‘peace’ deals turn sour

  • The U.S. president has tried to end warring in Gaza, the Congo, and along the Cambodian-Thailand border. He’s also tried to take credit for
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 11, 2025
Donald Trump
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

Trump’s many ‘peace’ deals turn sour

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 11, 2025
  • The U.S. president has tried to end warring in Gaza, the Congo, and along the Cambodian-Thailand border. He’s also tried to take credit for

Trump’s many ‘peace’ deals turn sour

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 11, 2025
  • The U.S. president has tried to end warring in Gaza, the Congo, and along the Cambodian-Thailand border. He’s also tried to take credit for
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

Venezuela strikes are nothing but performative murder

  • We are all back in the 19th century when the Western Hemisphere was the exclusive domain of the U.S.
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

Venezuela strikes are nothing but performative murder

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 8, 2025
  • We are all back in the 19th century when the Western Hemisphere was the exclusive domain of the U.S.

Venezuela strikes are nothing but performative murder

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 8, 2025
  • We are all back in the 19th century when the Western Hemisphere was the exclusive domain of the U.S.
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

Bibi awaits the next Trump distraction to dodge legal troubles

  • The ceasefire in Gaza intensifies the Israeli prime minister’s legal problems since he can no longer demand postponements in his trial proceedings due to
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

Bibi awaits the next Trump distraction to dodge legal troubles

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 1, 2025
  • The ceasefire in Gaza intensifies the Israeli prime minister’s legal problems since he can no longer demand postponements in his trial proceedings due to

Bibi awaits the next Trump distraction to dodge legal troubles

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | December 1, 2025
  • The ceasefire in Gaza intensifies the Israeli prime minister’s legal problems since he can no longer demand postponements in his trial proceedings due to
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

Trump and Putin’s goal is to destroy the international rule of law

  • Powerful people are deliberately trying to destroy the rule. Putin knows the rule but ignores it, while Trump doesn’t even know it.
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 26, 2025
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin
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

Trump and Putin’s goal is to destroy the international rule of law

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 26, 2025
  • Powerful people are deliberately trying to destroy the rule. Putin knows the rule but ignores it, while Trump doesn’t even know it.

Trump and Putin’s goal is to destroy the international rule of law

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 26, 2025
  • Powerful people are deliberately trying to destroy the rule. Putin knows the rule but ignores it, while Trump doesn’t even know it.
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

Ukraine: once more around the loop

  • Every month brings another chance for some political, economic, or technological change that alters the current equation, and gives Ukraine a better bargaining position
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

Ukraine: once more around the loop

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 25, 2025
  • Every month brings another chance for some political, economic, or technological change that alters the current equation, and gives Ukraine a better bargaining position

Ukraine: once more around the loop

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 25, 2025
  • Every month brings another chance for some political, economic, or technological change that alters the current equation, and gives Ukraine a better bargaining position
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

Iran: drought, incompetence, and maybe revolution

  • A prolonged drought in Iran might accomplish what other challenges failed to do: destroy the rule of the religious extremists who seized power in
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 19, 2025
Maharloo Lake, a hypersaline wetland in the highlands of Iran. Severe drought in the country could be the trigger for an uprising that finally dispatches a regime that has overstayed its welcome, columnist Gwynne Dyer writes. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Iran: drought, incompetence, and maybe revolution

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 19, 2025
  • A prolonged drought in Iran might accomplish what other challenges failed to do: destroy the rule of the religious extremists who seized power in

Iran: drought, incompetence, and maybe revolution

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 19, 2025
  • A prolonged drought in Iran might accomplish what other challenges failed to do: destroy the rule of the religious extremists who seized power in
Maharloo Lake, a hypersaline wetland in the highlands of Iran. Severe drought in the country could be the trigger for an uprising that finally dispatches a regime that has overstayed its welcome, columnist Gwynne Dyer writes. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Trump, the BBC, and a bad edit

  • With video editing, there is an honour system which says that you can edit the shot, but you must not change the meaning.
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

Trump, the BBC, and a bad edit

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 12, 2025
  • With video editing, there is an honour system which says that you can edit the shot, but you must not change the meaning.

Trump, the BBC, and a bad edit

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 12, 2025
  • With video editing, there is an honour system which says that you can edit the shot, but you must not change the meaning.
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

COP 30 unlikely to shift political will

  • Money is tight, wars are a huge distraction, and the climate has become unfashionable, so we’ll just have to wait and hope for better
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

COP 30 unlikely to shift political will

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 10, 2025
  • Money is tight, wars are a huge distraction, and the climate has become unfashionable, so we’ll just have to wait and hope for better

COP 30 unlikely to shift political will

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 10, 2025
  • Money is tight, wars are a huge distraction, and the climate has become unfashionable, so we’ll just have to wait and hope for better
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

Sudan: another partition?

  • The biggest city in western Sudan, swollen to half a million or more people due to minority ethnic groups fleeing genocide, fell to rebel
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

Sudan: another partition?

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 6, 2025
  • The biggest city in western Sudan, swollen to half a million or more people due to minority ethnic groups fleeing genocide, fell to rebel

Sudan: another partition?

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 6, 2025
  • The biggest city in western Sudan, swollen to half a million or more people due to minority ethnic groups fleeing genocide, fell to rebel
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

Trump’s game of ‘Made You Look’

  • If there are new revelations about Trump and Epstein on the way, then the U.S. leader needs useful distractions—like invading Nigeria.
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 3, 2025
Donald Trump
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

Trump’s game of ‘Made You Look’

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 3, 2025
  • If there are new revelations about Trump and Epstein on the way, then the U.S. leader needs useful distractions—like invading Nigeria.

Trump’s game of ‘Made You Look’

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | November 3, 2025
  • If there are new revelations about Trump and Epstein on the way, then the U.S. leader needs useful distractions—like invading Nigeria.
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

An Arab nadir driven by clueless hegemons

  • We are at a point where Trump’s America and Netanyahu’s Israel have established complete domination over the Middle East. 
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 29, 2025
Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu
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

An Arab nadir driven by clueless hegemons

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 29, 2025
  • We are at a point where Trump’s America and Netanyahu’s Israel have established complete domination over the Middle East. 

An Arab nadir driven by clueless hegemons

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | October 29, 2025
  • We are at a point where Trump’s America and Netanyahu’s Israel have established complete domination over the Middle East. 
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
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China’s residential schools

  • LONDON, U.K.—Residential schools were a common feature of European settler societies until quite late in the 20th century, and their purpose was not just
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | September 7, 2020
Chinese President Xi Jinping, pictured during the G20 Turkey Leaders Summit in 2015. Under Mr. Xi's leadership, the Chinese government has curbed the freedoms of ethnic and religious minorities in China. Photograph by Aykut Unlupinar, courtesy of G20 Turkey 2015

China’s residential schools

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | September 7, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—Residential schools were a common feature of European settler societies until quite late in the 20th century, and their purpose was not just

China’s residential schools

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | September 7, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—Residential schools were a common feature of European settler societies until quite late in the 20th century, and their purpose was not just
Chinese President Xi Jinping, pictured during the G20 Turkey Leaders Summit in 2015. Under Mr. Xi's leadership, the Chinese government has curbed the freedoms of ethnic and religious minorities in China. Photograph by Aykut Unlupinar, courtesy of G20 Turkey 2015

ECOWAS a model for regional problem-solving

  • LONDON, U.K.—In what is probably the poorest region of the world, West Africa, there is an unsung success story. The Economic Community of West
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 31, 2020
ECOWAS President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou addressing the UN Security Council in New York in 2018. The Economic Community of West African States has become a beacon of hope for regional stability in the world, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph by Evan Schneider, courtesy of the United Nations

ECOWAS a model for regional problem-solving

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 31, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—In what is probably the poorest region of the world, West Africa, there is an unsung success story. The Economic Community of West

ECOWAS a model for regional problem-solving

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 31, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—In what is probably the poorest region of the world, West Africa, there is an unsung success story. The Economic Community of West
ECOWAS President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou addressing the UN Security Council in New York in 2018. The Economic Community of West African States has become a beacon of hope for regional stability in the world, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph by Evan Schneider, courtesy of the United Nations

Parallels between Putin’s feud with Navalny and Henry II’s with Becket

  • LONDON, U.K.—In 20 years of writing about Russian President Vladimir Putin—he was completely obscure before 1999—I have never before had reason to mention him
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 26, 2020
Maybe the boss doesn’t sign off personally on each of these attacks, but it is very hard to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t know what is going on. Photograph courtesy of World Economic Forum

Parallels between Putin’s feud with Navalny and Henry II’s with Becket

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 26, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—In 20 years of writing about Russian President Vladimir Putin—he was completely obscure before 1999—I have never before had reason to mention him

Parallels between Putin’s feud with Navalny and Henry II’s with Becket

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 26, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—In 20 years of writing about Russian President Vladimir Putin—he was completely obscure before 1999—I have never before had reason to mention him
Maybe the boss doesn’t sign off personally on each of these attacks, but it is very hard to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t know what is going on. Photograph courtesy of World Economic Forum

Belarus: another win for non-violence? 

  • LONDON, U.K.—On Monday Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko went to the Minsk Tractor Works, the country’s biggest factory with almost 15,000 workers, and did his
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 20, 2020
Belarus has been gripped by protests over allegations that President Alexander Lukashenko rigged the country's Aug. 9 election. Photograp by Maxim Shikunets, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Belarus: another win for non-violence? 

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 20, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—On Monday Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko went to the Minsk Tractor Works, the country’s biggest factory with almost 15,000 workers, and did his

Belarus: another win for non-violence? 

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 20, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—On Monday Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko went to the Minsk Tractor Works, the country’s biggest factory with almost 15,000 workers, and did his
Belarus has been gripped by protests over allegations that President Alexander Lukashenko rigged the country's Aug. 9 election. Photograp by Maxim Shikunets, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

India: the weight of history

  • LONDON, U.K.—“India is emotional as decades of wait has ended,” declared India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, laying the cornerstone of a new temple in
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 13, 2020
India can never expel 170 million Muslims. There’s nowhere else for them to go. The goal of Narendra Modi and his Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP—Indian People’s Party) is to redefine them as an underclass without rights, and at the same time to preserve them as a permanent ‘threat’ that keeps Hindus united behind the BJP, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

India: the weight of history

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 13, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—“India is emotional as decades of wait has ended,” declared India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, laying the cornerstone of a new temple in

India: the weight of history

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 13, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—“India is emotional as decades of wait has ended,” declared India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, laying the cornerstone of a new temple in
India can never expel 170 million Muslims. There’s nowhere else for them to go. The goal of Narendra Modi and his Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP—Indian People’s Party) is to redefine them as an underclass without rights, and at the same time to preserve them as a permanent ‘threat’ that keeps Hindus united behind the BJP, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Meltdown in Lebanon

  • LONDON, U.K.—Beirut has been living with car bombs and air raids on a sporadic, but continuing basis for so long that it would probably
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 10, 2020
The damage following the explosion in the port area of Beirut. There is a lot of sympathy for the Lebanese, and foreign governments are willing to bail the country out of its troubles—but only on condition that the loans don’t just get pocketed by the same thieves in silk ties. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons via Voice of America, Anchal Vohra

Meltdown in Lebanon

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 10, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—Beirut has been living with car bombs and air raids on a sporadic, but continuing basis for so long that it would probably

Meltdown in Lebanon

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 10, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—Beirut has been living with car bombs and air raids on a sporadic, but continuing basis for so long that it would probably
The damage following the explosion in the port area of Beirut. There is a lot of sympathy for the Lebanese, and foreign governments are willing to bail the country out of its troubles—but only on condition that the loans don’t just get pocketed by the same thieves in silk ties. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons via Voice of America, Anchal Vohra

An October surprise almost inevitable in U.S.

  • LONDON, U.K.—An ‘October Surprise’ in the United States is now almost inevitable, because that will be Donald Trump’s last chance to get re-elected legitimately.
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 6, 2020
The pandemic is raging again in the United States, and there may be a quarter-million deaths there by election day in November. U.S. ‘deaths per million’ are going up three per day, which means that the U.S. will overtake Chile (now 509) in less than two weeks, Italy (582) in a month, Spain (609) in five weeks. It might even catch up with the U.K. (682) by election day, writes Gwynne Dyer. Image courtesy of Needpix.com

An October surprise almost inevitable in U.S.

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 6, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—An ‘October Surprise’ in the United States is now almost inevitable, because that will be Donald Trump’s last chance to get re-elected legitimately.

An October surprise almost inevitable in U.S.

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 6, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—An ‘October Surprise’ in the United States is now almost inevitable, because that will be Donald Trump’s last chance to get re-elected legitimately.
The pandemic is raging again in the United States, and there may be a quarter-million deaths there by election day in November. U.S. ‘deaths per million’ are going up three per day, which means that the U.S. will overtake Chile (now 509) in less than two weeks, Italy (582) in a month, Spain (609) in five weeks. It might even catch up with the U.K. (682) by election day, writes Gwynne Dyer. Image courtesy of Needpix.com

Belarus: the beginning of the end?

  • LONDON, U.K.—“Stop calling me a mustachioed cockroach,” said Alexander Lukashenko. “I am still the president of this country.” But that doesn’t sound very presidential,
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 5, 2020
Alexander Lukashenko, pictured, has been the president of Belarus for the past 26 years, but Sergei Tikhanovsky’s wife Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is running for president in her husband’s place in Sunday’s election because the well-known blogger is in jail, and she may do well enough to force 'Europe’s last dictator' into a second-round run-off vote. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Belarus: the beginning of the end?

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 5, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—“Stop calling me a mustachioed cockroach,” said Alexander Lukashenko. “I am still the president of this country.” But that doesn’t sound very presidential,

Belarus: the beginning of the end?

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | August 5, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—“Stop calling me a mustachioed cockroach,” said Alexander Lukashenko. “I am still the president of this country.” But that doesn’t sound very presidential,
Alexander Lukashenko, pictured, has been the president of Belarus for the past 26 years, but Sergei Tikhanovsky’s wife Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is running for president in her husband’s place in Sunday’s election because the well-known blogger is in jail, and she may do well enough to force 'Europe’s last dictator' into a second-round run-off vote. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Iran’s nuclear threshold game

  • LONDON, U.K.—“A glance at the history of nuclear weapons manufacture shows that all 11 countries that wished to build bombs did so within three
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 27, 2020
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu
When it comes to potential Iranian nukes, it’s never about Israel. What really does get the Iranians going is nuclear threats from OTHER countries. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured in 2016 in Ottawa, does have a rational reason for wanting to destroy the deal, however. The Hill Times file photograph

Iran’s nuclear threshold game

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 27, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—“A glance at the history of nuclear weapons manufacture shows that all 11 countries that wished to build bombs did so within three

Iran’s nuclear threshold game

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 27, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—“A glance at the history of nuclear weapons manufacture shows that all 11 countries that wished to build bombs did so within three
Benjamin Netanyahu
When it comes to potential Iranian nukes, it’s never about Israel. What really does get the Iranians going is nuclear threats from OTHER countries. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured in 2016 in Ottawa, does have a rational reason for wanting to destroy the deal, however. The Hill Times file photograph

A new Cold War with China? Probably not

  • LONDON, U.K.—Is there going to be a new Cold War with China? Probably not. Consider the case of Huawei. Mike Pompeo swept into London
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 27, 2020
The only ideological tool available to Xi Jinping is nationalism. He would deploy it if necessary to defend his own power, just as Donald Trump is doing now, but for a sustainable cold war there needs to be a more credible sense of threat than is currently available to either party, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of the Kremlin/Flickr

A new Cold War with China? Probably not

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 27, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—Is there going to be a new Cold War with China? Probably not. Consider the case of Huawei. Mike Pompeo swept into London

A new Cold War with China? Probably not

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 27, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—Is there going to be a new Cold War with China? Probably not. Consider the case of Huawei. Mike Pompeo swept into London
The only ideological tool available to Xi Jinping is nationalism. He would deploy it if necessary to defend his own power, just as Donald Trump is doing now, but for a sustainable cold war there needs to be a more credible sense of threat than is currently available to either party, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of the Kremlin/Flickr

A warning from Poland

  • LONDON, U.K.—Few people outside of Poland care about the outcome of the July 12 presidential election there, but maybe they should. Andrzej Duda is
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 20, 2020
Andrzej Duda is practically a Polish clone of Donald Trump, who will also be seeking re-election less than four months from now—and Duda squeaked out a victory. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikipedia

A warning from Poland

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 20, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—Few people outside of Poland care about the outcome of the July 12 presidential election there, but maybe they should. Andrzej Duda is

A warning from Poland

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 20, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—Few people outside of Poland care about the outcome of the July 12 presidential election there, but maybe they should. Andrzej Duda is
Andrzej Duda is practically a Polish clone of Donald Trump, who will also be seeking re-election less than four months from now—and Duda squeaked out a victory. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikipedia

Balkan ghosts

  • LONDON, U.K.—“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown,” says an old friend to Jack Nicholson as the mother is killed, the little girl is handed over
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 13, 2020
The Ottoman empire went on to conquer almost all of the Balkans, so nobody in the Christian world seriously dreamed of getting Hagia Sophia back. But the centuries passed, and eventually, the empire collapsed. And now, the Hagia Sophia will have Muslim prayer services for the first time since 1934 Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Balkan ghosts

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 13, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown,” says an old friend to Jack Nicholson as the mother is killed, the little girl is handed over

Balkan ghosts

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 13, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown,” says an old friend to Jack Nicholson as the mother is killed, the little girl is handed over
The Ottoman empire went on to conquer almost all of the Balkans, so nobody in the Christian world seriously dreamed of getting Hagia Sophia back. But the centuries passed, and eventually, the empire collapsed. And now, the Hagia Sophia will have Muslim prayer services for the first time since 1934 Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Hong Kong: the ‘British’ three million

  • “We will grant BNOs five years’ limited leave to remain (in the United Kingdom), with the right to work or study,” British Foreign Secretary
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 6, 2020
The decision has been taken, and Hong Kong’s residents have two good reasons to leave: their freedoms are gone, and the economic future is grim. Many will decide to leave, but where can they go? Flickr photograph by Jonathan van Smit

Hong Kong: the ‘British’ three million

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 6, 2020
  • “We will grant BNOs five years’ limited leave to remain (in the United Kingdom), with the right to work or study,” British Foreign Secretary

Hong Kong: the ‘British’ three million

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 6, 2020
  • “We will grant BNOs five years’ limited leave to remain (in the United Kingdom), with the right to work or study,” British Foreign Secretary
The decision has been taken, and Hong Kong’s residents have two good reasons to leave: their freedoms are gone, and the economic future is grim. Many will decide to leave, but where can they go? Flickr photograph by Jonathan van Smit

Netanyahu stalls

  • LONDON, U.K.—“We have been hearing about sovereignty for a year-and-a-half without things happening on the ground. Today turned out to be one big farce,”
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 1, 2020
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu
For months, the first of July had been advertised as the date when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would announce the annexation of much of the occupied West Bank—but he said nothing. Why? Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikipedia

Netanyahu stalls

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 1, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—“We have been hearing about sovereignty for a year-and-a-half without things happening on the ground. Today turned out to be one big farce,”

Netanyahu stalls

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 1, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—“We have been hearing about sovereignty for a year-and-a-half without things happening on the ground. Today turned out to be one big farce,”
Benjamin Netanyahu
For months, the first of July had been advertised as the date when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would announce the annexation of much of the occupied West Bank—but he said nothing. Why? Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikipedia

Putin expected to win Russia’s referendum even without all the incentives

  • LONDON, U.K.—“The very existence of an opportunity for the current president (to be re-elected in 2024), given his major gravitas, would be a stabilizing
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 29, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin will win the referendum on the new constitution without even having to cheat, writes Gywnne Dyer. Image courtesy of Needpix.com

Putin expected to win Russia’s referendum even without all the incentives

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 29, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—“The very existence of an opportunity for the current president (to be re-elected in 2024), given his major gravitas, would be a stabilizing

Putin expected to win Russia’s referendum even without all the incentives

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 29, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—“The very existence of an opportunity for the current president (to be re-elected in 2024), given his major gravitas, would be a stabilizing
Russian President Vladimir Putin will win the referendum on the new constitution without even having to cheat, writes Gywnne Dyer. Image courtesy of Needpix.com

U.S. sanctions against Syria won’t bring Assad’s regime down

  • LONDON, U.K.—On June 17, the United States imposed new sanctions on Syria: a “sustained campaign of economic and political pressure” to end the nine-year
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 29, 2020
On June 17, the United States imposed new sanctions on Syria: a 'sustained campaign of economic and political pressure' to end the nine-year war by forcing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, pictured, to UN-brokered peace talks where he would negotiate his departure from power. Photograph courtesy of the Kremlin

U.S. sanctions against Syria won’t bring Assad’s regime down

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 29, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—On June 17, the United States imposed new sanctions on Syria: a “sustained campaign of economic and political pressure” to end the nine-year

U.S. sanctions against Syria won’t bring Assad’s regime down

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 29, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—On June 17, the United States imposed new sanctions on Syria: a “sustained campaign of economic and political pressure” to end the nine-year
On June 17, the United States imposed new sanctions on Syria: a 'sustained campaign of economic and political pressure' to end the nine-year war by forcing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, pictured, to UN-brokered peace talks where he would negotiate his departure from power. Photograph courtesy of the Kremlin

Putin’s plea

  • LONDON, U.K.—Donald Trump writes in tweets, with more exclamation marks than a 13-year-old girl’s diary. Nobody knows for sure whether his very limited vocabulary
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 22, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin has written a 9,000-word essay on the risk to world peace to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and published it in the leading American foreign policy magazine The National Interest. Photograph courtesy of the World Economic Forum

Putin’s plea

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 22, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—Donald Trump writes in tweets, with more exclamation marks than a 13-year-old girl’s diary. Nobody knows for sure whether his very limited vocabulary

Putin’s plea

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 22, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—Donald Trump writes in tweets, with more exclamation marks than a 13-year-old girl’s diary. Nobody knows for sure whether his very limited vocabulary
Russian President Vladimir Putin has written a 9,000-word essay on the risk to world peace to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and published it in the leading American foreign policy magazine The National Interest. Photograph courtesy of the World Economic Forum

The Chinese way of war

  • LONDON, U.K.—Never bring a knife to a gunfight, the saying goes, but China does it differently. It brings clubs. On June 15, China and
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 17, 2020
On June 15, China and India had the nastiest frontier incident since their border war of 1962. In the Galwan Valley of the Aksai Chin, a disputed region the size of Switzerland in the western Himalayas, Chinese and Indian border patrols clashed and twenty Indian soldiers were killed—yet not a shot was fired. The killing was all done with clubs, stones, and bare hands, writes Gwynne Dyer. Image courtesy Bloomberg

The Chinese way of war

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 17, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—Never bring a knife to a gunfight, the saying goes, but China does it differently. It brings clubs. On June 15, China and

The Chinese way of war

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 17, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—Never bring a knife to a gunfight, the saying goes, but China does it differently. It brings clubs. On June 15, China and
On June 15, China and India had the nastiest frontier incident since their border war of 1962. In the Galwan Valley of the Aksai Chin, a disputed region the size of Switzerland in the western Himalayas, Chinese and Indian border patrols clashed and twenty Indian soldiers were killed—yet not a shot was fired. The killing was all done with clubs, stones, and bare hands, writes Gwynne Dyer. Image courtesy Bloomberg

Libya: the incredible irrelevance of America

  • LONDON, U.K.—‘Field Marshal’ Khalifa Haftar’s retreat from Tripoli should not be confused with Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. Haftar was foolish to try to capture
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 15, 2020

Libya: the incredible irrelevance of America

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 15, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—‘Field Marshal’ Khalifa Haftar’s retreat from Tripoli should not be confused with Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. Haftar was foolish to try to capture

Libya: the incredible irrelevance of America

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 15, 2020
  • LONDON, U.K.—‘Field Marshal’ Khalifa Haftar’s retreat from Tripoli should not be confused with Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. Haftar was foolish to try to capture

Surinam: not another you-know-what

  • Donald Trump would undoubtedly include Surinam in his category of “shithole countries” if he knew where it was, but it is definitely getting better.
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 5, 2020
Dési Bouterse, of Surinam, is about to be ousted from the presidency after a free election and sent to jail for the rest of his life. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Surinam: not another you-know-what

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 5, 2020
  • Donald Trump would undoubtedly include Surinam in his category of “shithole countries” if he knew where it was, but it is definitely getting better.

Surinam: not another you-know-what

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | June 5, 2020
  • Donald Trump would undoubtedly include Surinam in his category of “shithole countries” if he knew where it was, but it is definitely getting better.
Dési Bouterse, of Surinam, is about to be ousted from the presidency after a free election and sent to jail for the rest of his life. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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