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Jan 9, 2025 | 
universul.net | Dan Perry |De Dan Perry
Will it be world peace – or an end that is well nigh? Perhaps flying AI dolphins? “The future is open,” wrote the philosopher Karl Popper. “It is not predetermined and thus cannot be predicted.” He had a point: Our world is an unruly beast, seldom tamed by the sharpest minds or most careful calculations. It’s also true that people don’t change at my age – and so, appreciating the folly of my endeavor and in line with a lifetime of recklessness, here are my predictions for 2025.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
universul.net | Dan Perry |De Dan Perry
Few countries are more worried about President-Elect Donald Trump than Ukraine, whose determined stand against Russian aggression would collapse without outside aid. That goes double with the indications that his secretary of state will be Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who has been calling for a “negotiated settlement.” Whatever lipstick is smeared on the pig, that means letting Russia keep some of the land it seized.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
universul.net | Dan Perry |De Dan Perry
The late Hunter S. Thompson, inventor of the subjective and acid Gonzo Journalism, had a turn of phrase and an eye for the absurd. His classic is 1971’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a wild, hallucinogenic journey fueled by an arsenal of drugs causing our hero’s perceptions become increasingly warped, leading to visions of oversized, grotesque lizards.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
universul.net | Dan Perry |De Dan Perry
Israel’s successes in recent weeks open the door to a genuinely game-changing Pax Americana in the Middle East. That is if the United States is ready to put politics aside and simply take the win in the immediate aftermath of the Nov. 5 election. For years, the music coming out of Washington (and most European capitals) has been the tune typically heard from the State Department: avoid escalation, always seek a ceasefire, try to reach a deal.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
universul.net | Dan Perry |De Dan Perry
So impactful has been this month that we’ve decided to offer a quick curation of the highlights on Ask Questions Later – if nothing else, as a special service to the many new members who have joined just this past week.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
universul.net | Robert Hamilton |Dan Perry |De Dan Perry
A vote by the citizen of a superpower affects the entire world. So Americans’ choice between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in November will reverberate far beyond US borders. That is true whether or not they are aware, and whether or not they even care. And at the core, the election is to a fascinating degree not just a horserace or a clash of personalities but a choice between two views of what America is — and what it should be on the global stage. Until now, that was far less the case.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
universul.net | Dan Perry |De Dan Perry
Exactly 10 months after the Oct. 7 massacre which sparked a devastating war in Gaza, the Middle East is teetering on the edge of an even wider conflict as Israel braces for a threatened attack from Iran and its terrorist proxies. It could easily arrive in coming hours. There are two seemingly contradictory ways to look at this tragedy, and understanding how both are true is the key to untangling one of the messiest situations in geopolitics since World War II.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
universul.net | Dan Perry |De Dan Perry
„What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again,” it says in the biblical book of Ecclesiastes. „There is nothing new under the sun.” It means that the human experience is essentially constant, and we should keep our powder dry. This is usually true, but not in the United States right now: there is dirty work afoot. We have a pretty big problem. I am not talking about the attempt last weekend to assassinate former President Donald Trump.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
universul.net | Dan Perry |De Dan Perry
This will be a hard read for some, but it’s accurate. Israel can still save itself, but it won’t be easy and the current leadership cannot do it. Radical moves are needed. Perched on hilltops in the middle of the Holy Land is Beitar Illit, a town of 70,000 devout Jews living in cookie-cutter red-roofed apartment blocs and spending their days in an extraordinary manifestation of devotion to religious ritual.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
universul.net | Dan Perry |De Dan Perry
The recent British and French parliamentary elections surfaced an interesting Jewish angle: anecdotally at least, the Jews have much more fear of the far Left than the far Right – which is a historic shift that reflects a bigger story about world politics. It’s all quite remarkable for me, since I’m old enough to remember the Jewish revulsion about 40 years ago when French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen was emerging as the world’s most unapologetic prominent antisemite.
