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‘
Category: United States
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
Iran-US Draft Memorandum to End the War
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
One Word, One Comment
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
April 7, 2026, Warning of War Crimes
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
No Kings Protests
In Washington DC On a weekend before a new golden Ballroom planned by the president to attach to the White House begins construction with demolition at the East Wing building, a nationwide series of “No Kings” protests takes place across the nation. Estimates of between 7 and 8 million people demonstrated peacefully, exercising constitutionally […]
Another Executive Order, a “Department of War”
By order of the President of the United States, an updated name, the “Department of War”, was officially recognized today via Oval Office ceremony… The new “Secretary of War”, Pete Hegseth, explained prior to the signing that “lethality” is the intent of the re-naming…
A US ‘Diktat’ to France, Executive Order 14173
The surprises keep on rolling out from the new US president. The latest in a flurry coming from the president’s desk and his Sharpie Marker-signed pens arrives shortly before a promised Worldwide Tariff Plan
An Oval Office Meltdown
The screenshot/Google News record here captures a moment that will go down in history as a turning point. Scan the news headlines below and begin to sense what happened in the president’s office of the US White House …
Election Day Thoughts
Once in a while a turn of phrase, a paragraph, a seminal thought, or a zeitgeist moment captures the temper of the times. Here, Semafor, in a memorable paragraph, places the US Election Day in focus and context. Semaforte. Yes, the US and world’s changing all around us…
November 5th, 2024, a Day to Remember
As the US prepares for Election Day, the consequences of the vote are drawing nigh. The election results, however they are reported and certified (certification itself looms in the days following the election), the nation will no longer be the same on November 6th… It is time to ask what is truly on the ballot. […]
The Gamble in the Mideast
The world is looking at Israel and an expanding war, a generational war, a religious war, an international war, a war with entangling alliances, a war that could drag the US into another war. Amid the realities of war, Israel’s Netanyahu releases a message to the Iranian people
Russian Disinformation Targets US
Breaking News presented via Google Wrap Up: After the 2016 US election documented a “Great Hack” of data breaches, foreign-campaign disinformation, and online targeting, who can say that today’s headlines of “DOJ Bombshell” are anything but more of the same CyberWar. Online manipulation, cyberattacks, hacking, disinformation wars resound
President Biden Steps Away from His 2024 Campaign
The withdrawal letter of the US president, delivered to the nation via social media, was not a shock given wide concerns about the President’s health condition
Israel’s Netanyahu Goes to DC
This week’s visit to the US by Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents palpable tension. The relationship between the two old politicians, Joe Biden and ‘Bibi’, is a boldface question mark and now come the public scenes. How will House Speaker Mike Johnson act? Donald Trump? The Republican party, Democratic party? Political activists, dissidents, protestors? […]
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
Democracy Challenged
“Democracy Awakening”, Heather Cox Richardson’s new book, continues to stand out among non-fiction big publishing releases as its message, its history and its contemporary warning, comes into greater focus everyday. Those who support democracy full on are all better for Heather’s blend of news as history in-the-making. The times are changing. Hold on to democracy […]
