Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

New at the Belmont Club. Don’t look in the mirror if you won’t like what you’ll see.

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 …

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New at the Belmont Club. Getting ready for the long haul. It’s a marathon not a sprint.

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.

New at the Belmont Club. Getting past dead empires and mid-20th century visions of the future.

New at the Belmont Club. When a nuclear armed supervillain loses his shirt at a poker table, what happens next?

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.

New at the Belmont Club. When you realize the driver has no idea where he’s going.

New at the Belmont Club. When the pandemic finally ends, there’s one last drug you need to stop taking.

New at the Belmont Club. When the officially nonexistent starts knocking at your door.

Boris Johnson warns Russia has “60 … battle groups” (presumably battalion tactical groups) ready “for a lightning war that could take out Kiev”.

New at the Belmont Club. Making the most of a weak hand.

Judging from the amount of prestige and resources Russia has poured into it, Putin seems committed to risk at least limited military action in the Ukraine. It could be a repeat of Putin’s earlier campaign of subversion or involve a conventional overt component. America’s dilemma is to respond without escalating the military conflict while potentially …

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New at the Belmont Club. The world after Covid won’t look like 2019.

New at the Belmont Club. The unexpected happens to America’s rivals too.

New at the Belmont Club. Two public health strategies, many weary publics and one endless war against a hit and run virus.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-on-covid-no-federal-solution-11640648750

New at the Belmont Club. Are you sure Santa isn’t real?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fauci-collins-emails-great-barrington-declaration-covid-pandemic-lockdown-11640129116

Putin’s low regard for the administration is making him reckless in Ukraine. https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/putins-ukraine-calculation/