Wolfgang Munchau
speaks with a German accent, writes with a British one. Director of Eurointelligence; Columnist for UnHerd and DL News
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1 week ago |
unherd.com | Wolfgang Munchau
BRICSChinadiverseSWIFTRussiasemiconductorsSocietySWIFT World-class chess players know the difference between strategy and tactics better than politicians do. To win in chess you need to start with a strategy — a long-term plan that gets you to a position of superiority. Then you close in with a sequence of tactical moves. As Max Euwe, the Dutch chess grandmaster of the 1930s, once observed: “Strategy requires thought. Tactics require observation.”The West is all tactics.
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2 weeks ago |
eurointelligence.com | Jack SMith |Jack Smith |Wolfgang Munchau
In interwar Denmark, the writer Aksel Sandemose came up with a concept that would come to define his home country, and Scandinavia as a whole: the law of Jante. Named after a fictional town, the gist of the 10 so-called laws is that nobody was to think they were anything special, or better than anyone else. Sandemose joked that Jante’s penal code was gossip and recrimination. The townspeople always knew something about everyone else.
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2 weeks ago |
unherd.com | Wolfgang Munchau
dogeMuskPoliticsteslaTrumpUS Imagine a dystopia in which it is perfectly normal for people to play Russian roulette. Most people die early. But some survive — and we call those people “’successful”. But what if they just got lucky for longer? And what happens when that luck runs out? Consider the odds. If you use a gun with six chambers, the chances of surviving a single round are a little over 83%. By time you have reached round four, your survival chances will be roughly 50-50.
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3 weeks ago |
dlnews.com | Wolfgang Munchau
Bitcoin is poised to play a role in a US fiscal crisis. There are different forms of default. Whacking taxes will widen the deficit. Wolfgang Münchau is a columnist for DL News. He is co-founder and director of Eurointelligence, and writes a column on European affairs for UnHerd. Opinions are his own. There is an old saying in journalism that a story is not true until it is formally denied.
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3 weeks ago |
eurointelligence.com | Susanne Mundschenk |Wolfgang Munchau
In war there is the world of suffering, and the world of politics. The two do not often interact. Eventually there comes a point in any conflict when the suffering is so great that politics has to change. Israel has reached this point in Gaza. After over 600 days of war in Gaza, the declared goal of Israeli government is still to eradicate Hamas and its infrastructures. Israel’s peace-by-force strategy is devastating to civilian lives in Gaza. Success of its strategy is far from assured.
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Here is my latest column in Eurointelligence on why I no longer support Eurobonds. https://t.co/typhlWSJpQ
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