New at the Belmont Club. A globe on the edge of either renewal or catastrophe.
Author Archives: Richard Fernandez
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, βIn 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”.
The gambler
New at the Belmont Club. Making the most of a weak hand.
Ukraine
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 …
Business as unusual
New at the Belmont Club. The world after Covid won’t look like 2019.
Meet Mr. Murphy
New at the Belmont Club. The unexpected happens to America’s rivals too.