By Gwynne Dyer Feb. 19, 2024 Vladimir Putin’s regime had been assassinating Chechen warlords, defectors from the Russian intelligence services and sundry wayward oligarchs for years, but its first political murder was the hit on high-profile journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in her Moscow apartment in 2006 — and so it has been … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer On the Navalny Murder
Wars have stolen our attention from a looming climate catastrophe We’re still in the game, with a slim chance of holding global warming below a catastrophic level through the rest of the century, Gwynne Dyer writes. By Gwynne Dyer – Tuesday, October 31, 2023 You would think that all human energies would be focused on … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Three Wars — Any Victories?
Gwynne Dyer: Ukrainian Breakthrough? It’s a Slog. It’s nothing like the great breakthroughs of the mid-twentieth century wars, when combined air and ground forces would tear a hole in the enemy line, the tanks would pour through, and the front would roll back several hundred kilometres before it stabilised again. By Gwynne Dyer, in Opinion … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Ukraine: A Breakthrough In Slow Motion
Why it’s unlikely the US will help Armenia by Gwynne Dyer, — Sept. 11, 2023 The Armenians are a people of great antiquity — the first Armenian kingdom was in the 8th century B.C. — but they grew up in a tough neighborhood, and they have been in retreat for a very long time.
What’s BRICs? Does it Amount to Anything? Gwynne Dyer, August 31, 2023 What’s BRICs? Does it Amount to Anything? YOU can expand the curious organisation called the BRICS, but you can’t define it. In fact, it’s hardly even an organisation: no headquarters, no secretariat. Even the (British) Commonwealth and la Francophonie have more substance: at … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: The Secret Life of BRICS