New at the Belmont Club. A theory of victory that relies on unleashing chaos may have no winners.
Author Archives: Richard Fernandez
Disaster in the rear view mirror
New at the Belmont Club. How what looked like Obama’s third term became a nightmare ride.
Meme War ‘Z’
New at the Belmont Club. Every civilization experiences an invasion of True Believers. It’s the West’s turn.
Woke sorcery
New at the Belmont Club. Where do magic and bad luck come from?
Broken symmetry
New at the Belmont Club. A globe on the edge of either renewal or catastrophe.
What will Putin celebrate on May 9?
New at the Belmont Club. Big Iron, the Big Network and the plan to rule the world.
Social media at the crossroads
New at the Belmont Club. Information is too valuable to be squandered on placing ads and selling political ideologies.
Led by the divines
New at the Belmont Club. When people incapable of mistakes get things wrong.
Let me tell your fortune
New at the Belmont Club. Can the computer predict how long till we’re back to business as usual?
Putin’s not a reader
New at the Belmont Club. Don’t look in the mirror if you won’t like what you’ll see.
Intelligence failure again
New at the Belmont Club. Both Putin and Biden are dealing with consequences they never expected. It was a tale of two blunders. Both Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin made the mistake of believing that the Russian army could conquer Ukraine in two days. The New York Times wrote in perplexity, “In Afghanistan, intelligence agencies …
The basics first
New at the Belmont Club. Getting ready for the long haul. It’s a marathon not a sprint.
The end of illusion
New at the Belmont Club. Remembering the days when the only problem the great and good had was how to save the world from Climate Change.
The war in Ukraine becomes crisis in Russia
New at the Belmont Club. Getting past dead empires and mid-20th century visions of the future.
Fortunes of War
New at the Belmont Club. When a nuclear armed supervillain loses his shirt at a poker table, what happens next?
Putin vs Biden
New at the Belmont Club. Biden is waiting for Putin to come through the door, not saw a hole in the floor he’s standing on.
Strange days
New at the Belmont Club. When you realize the driver has no idea where he’s going.
You can do it
New at the Belmont Club. When the pandemic finally ends, there’s one last drug you need to stop taking.
Do you recall what was revealed?
New at the Belmont Club. When the officially nonexistent starts knocking at your door.
Blitzkrieg predicted in Ukraine
Boris Johnson warns Russia has “60 … battle groups” (presumably battalion tactical groups) ready “for a lightning war that could take out Kiev”.