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Realpolitik shares with Game theory, and more broadly, Economics, the fundamental assumption that a party, an agent, operates in its own self-interest; we might even highlight that this is true of all organisms in some sense, that very process of survival. A Realpolitik view of…
Continue reading...Defence has five values – Service, Courage, Respect, Integrity, Excellence But Defence is a morally bankrupt organisation – it does not operate nor adhere to any ethical framework. Its organisational constitution is bureaucratic and legal. It has built itself into a monolith of contradiction. It…
Continue reading...Series One has its locus on a single point – Australia. The Lucky Country, a land of meritocracy and mediocrity. Modern Australia is a country of perpetual exploitation, from the First Nations people to its stately duties in service of its motherland, Great Britain, and…
Continue reading...On 03 Jan 26 President Donald J. Trump announced an extra-territorial US policing operation in which Nicolás Maduro, and the First Lady, were captured by the US military. Despite being captured by the military, Maduro, is charged with US offences under US law, indicted back…
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