Along comes Ulanqab… a ‘tiny place in Mongolia that you’ve probably never heard of: Ulanqab prefecture…. It’s sparsely populated, 1.5 million people… on windswept grassland on the Mongolian plateau… there is more to this place — (Editor: Much more) than meets the eye…’
A ‘Mid-term Convention’? The president wanted it to happen, told the speaker of the US House of Representatives to make it ‘a thing’, and so today, in Texas, September 9, 2026, the nation gets to see whether a ‘Trumpapalooza’ branded party event can turn the numbers
Opinion: The New York Time Editorial Board opines … ‘Trump’s Election Meddling Erodes Our Democracy’ … Strategic Demands Comment to the NYT Op/Ed — ‘Election Meddling’ doesn’t come close to capturing what’s going on … and what is at stake in November
A StratDem reminder that our associate, GreenPolicy360.com, is wingman on our political mission. We’re advancing ‘New Definitions of Local, National & Global Security‘ and have been flying a Living Earth mission since the Era of Apollo 8
As the November 2026 presidential election approaches, the U.S. prepares — from the president’s political actions promising to impact (and influence) the election, across to big money, polling, campaigning and media… The upcoming election will be fateful and historic.
July 29th, 2026, in the Modern era, as the Wall Street Journal reports today’s news, the headlines are worth time-stamping as an archive — The politics (watch out for that left turn), and AI (oh open-source Anthropic), and historic wildfires in Europe (but nada about the clear and present security dangers of, uh, climate change) […]
Today, StratDem features a guest Op/Ed from Shanaka Anslem Perera. The work of Shanaka has a style and substance that roams wide and far geopolitically. The latest news on a China v. US ‘chip war’ and frontier AI competition is captured here by Shanaka… We are calling it ‘Beyond the Belt and Road‘
The legal word ’emoluments’ is not often bandied about. A more common phrase is ‘time to talk turkey’, that is, ‘time to talk the hard facts’. It was time to talk turkey, ’emoluments’ and more this week as a US Senator spoke
Declaring upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding an ‘immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts’ As released by the US at the G7 meeting in Europe — June 17, 2026
The weekend at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20500 featured dueling events. One took place in a rapidly constructed arena called ‘The Claw’, the other took place from the Executive Residence of the U.S. president, as social media announcements were released about ending a war….
We offer up two Steve’s today, Steve Schmidt, ex campaign manager of John McCain’s presidential campaign, and Steven Schmidt, founder/editor of Strategic Demands & global GreenPolicy360. The political juxtaposition begins with this Wikipedia ‘disambiguation’ and shared podcast
We understand that the US is on record stating that the newest war in the Mideast is a “defensive war”. It isn’t. The newest war was launched as an offensive operation. It can be, should be, described as a continuation of the ‘Bush Doctrine’, of a pre-emptive war as memorialized in ‘shock and awe’ war […]
What is the One Word … ‘Orwell’. It’s Orwell as in ‘Orwellian’. What is the One Comment … It’s ‘War is Peace’. And so it goes … The year is 2026 … the State Department speaks
The president of the United States uses the Christian occasion of Easter morning to send out a message warning the world of his intent, as Commander in Chief of the United States, to destroy the Iranian civilization
A Day in a War (Provocation and Escalation)
Another war, more spending for war, conventional… and nuclear. The US is top of the world in war spending and the US president now wants 50% more for the War Department. Truth is, we have a need to know the deeper costs of war ….
Geopolitics is the word of the day — a US neo Colonialism (imprinted in Marco Rubio’s ‘New Western Century’ speech at the Munich Conference) confronts a China Belt and Road Initiative (see the all-continent BRI footprint) that is supported and accompanied by a Russian Federation attempting to restore lost imperial power…
