We are waiting for the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza. An offensive that should have started a day ago. When it will come and if it will come, hardly anyone knows for sure. Most believe Israel is launching an attack to crush Hamas. Crushing Hamas will most likely lead to unimaginable suffering, including among…
The war in Nagorno-Karabakh is over. The area in Azerbaijan has probably been taken back. Nagorno-Karabakh is a disputed area. This belonged to Azerbaijan, but most of the population there were Armenians. This caused the population there to rebel against Azerbaijan and install their own acid. The small area was supported by Armenia and…
Hamas’s attacks on Israel are to a large extent carried out with the support of Iran and Russia. I condemn the attack in the strongest possible terms. An attack that largely targeted civilians. The images we have seen from Israel are reminiscent of the images we have seen from Ukraine, the killing of innocent…
It is reported that 50 civilians lost their lives in the small village of Hroza in Ukraine. Some people were gathered in a cafe when a Russian missile ended the lives of civilians. Hroza is a village in Kharkiv, in the far east of Ukraine. I fear that the death toll will be even…
The question many are asking is how long the war in Ukraine will last. Another question is what a peace will entail and what alternatives can be thought of. I will go through the options and assess how likely they are. Preconditions There are a number of assumptions that must be taken into account…
Doping has long been a problem in sports. But no nation has used doping as actively as the GDR did from the mid-1960s, until the fall of the Berlin Wall. The country with approximately 19 million inhabitants was a communist dictatorship. People lived in fear and a dream of reunification with the rest of…