Upon the dramatic failure of perestroika, the ruse of NATO ‘non-enlargement’ associated with the Two-Plus-Four German unification treaty, and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact…
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The German unification (or, more precisely, reunification) affair was many things to both Gorbachev, on a personal level as the head of state, and Russia.…
An in-depth scrutiny of the last two decades of the twentieth century is key to fathom contemporary Russian-Western relations. Twenty eventful years were the 1980s…
Rectification always begins with the recognition of error. Let’s face it; the United States has lost the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over one electoral…
On a nice spring day in the Garden of Eden, after breakfast, Adam took a nap—as it was his custom following every meal (obviously!). The…
Since time immemorial, as old as the transition from the pre-social to the post-social state of nature, as construed by Enlightenment philosophers, namely Jean-Jacques Rousseau…
One of the greatest minds of our time, at least in my opinion, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, has once asserted, “A harmless man is not…
The expression “making the best out of circumstances,” is usually relative; but in the case of Saudi and Turkish pragmatism towards the Ukraine crisis, it…
In an earlier contribution to IE Insights, “End of the Simulation: Human Consciousness and the Ukraine Crisis,” I have traced the origins of war to…
In the first article, “On Losing One’s Self,” I have established that the loss of the self occurs when the person no longer entertains a…