Last month on September 22nd in a speech to the assembled delegates of the United Nations, the president of the United States stood before national representatives of the world and threatened mass destruction — “Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly…”
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A Late Night Post from Zelenskyy
How is the world going to react as the war in Ukraine takes a turn for the worse as the US president announces a deal to sell Russian diesel oil on the international market with a freeze on attacks… a freeze immediately broken by one of the largest attacks of the war accompanied by […]
Ulanqab and Frontier A.I. Race: China v U.S.
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…’
Near-term, Mid-term, Long-term — Time to Go Green
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
Snapshot of a Day from WSJ Headlines
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) […]
Senator Murphy from Connecticut Talks Hard Facts
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
Another Month, Another War Continues
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 […]
Trump says he needs another $500 (or $600) billion
On the Donald J Trump ‘Truth Social’ site, this past week the US President announced he would be calling for a vastly expanded military budget. He explained that he wants to build a ‘Dream Military’ … Here at Strategic Demands we say ‘no’ to billions and billions more for new conflicts, wasteful spending, and misdirected […]
Earth Day
Looking back to the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970 Memories as a Generation Green looked homeward, and forward, as Planet Citizens …
Broken Pledges, Rumbling War
Back in the 1990s with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union with its release of control over Eastern European nations, came a negotiation. This would eventually bring the world to today — and war in Ukraine. Let’s look more closely …
Missed Opportunities Led to Russia-Ukraine War
As the war in Ukraine moves into a tenth year of conflict and over a thousand days of a war Russia calls a ‘special operation’, the escalating war’s reality pushes new nuclear strategies and, as a new U.S. president comes on stage, Strategic Demands recalls a man who speaks of how we got here…
Death of Yahya Sinwar in Gaza War — What’s Next?
News reports of the death of the Hamas leader began to leak out yesterday. Today more details are being revealed. One of his last acts, it seems, as Sinwar lay gravely injured by an Israeli tank shell explosion was… to turn toward a hovering drone monitoring him and throw a stick at it…
Nuclear War, A Scenario
Take time out from the daily news cycle and read, listen, or watch as Annie Jacobsen brings her nuclear war story and intensive research into a deep, dark world of #NuclearWarPlanners, the #EndofTimes, and the #EndGame
Nuclear Ratcheting
Russian nuclear exercise drills held near the border with Ukraine are meant to send a message. The message is sent, a message similar to the US-NATO alliance’s F-35A with new configurations for stealth delivery of nuclear weapons by alliance countries
Quick Look at the ToC of StratDem’s Associate, GreenPolicy360
Since the social media app TikTok is in the news, let’s talk about our associate, GreenPolicy360’s TocToc. Why not? It’s a Table of Contents, a ToC-a-Lot, and GreenPolicy360 has tens of millions of users globally who’re visiting, using and sharing the Green360-StratDem network
The Temps, The Temps, They Are Rising
Between and during disastrous wars raging with staggering loss of lives and geopolitical moves for land, control, power, religion, there is this… Record tropospheric temperature rise and record sea surface temperature rise. Earth Science is pulsing ‘danger, danger, danger’…
Blowback Far Beyond Gaza-Israel
Acknowledging the seemingly insoluble problem of the Middle East wars, now in a Gaza-Israel incarnation, few believe there are solutions to interminable conflict. The history is one of ‘begats’. After all, it’s ‘Biblical’, right?
