Alfred McCoy

Putin Index Finger

This Is How We End the War in Ukraine This Is How We End the War in Ukraine

It’s time to finally deliver a bill to Vladimir Putin for a foreign policy that has involved little more than flattening one hapless city after another

Apr 21, 2022 / Alfred McCoy

Presidents Putin and Jinping

Russia and China, Together at Last Russia and China, Together at Last

At the core of recent conflicts is an entente between China and Russia that the world hasn’t seen since the start of the Cold War.

Mar 14, 2022 / Alfred McCoy

Will the Fight for Hegemony Survive Climate Change?

Will the Fight for Hegemony Survive Climate Change? Will the Fight for Hegemony Survive Climate Change?

Even if China were to become the preeminent world power around 2030, the accelerating pace of climate change would likely curtail its rise within decades.

Feb 25, 2022 / Alfred McCoy

Taiwan Strait Helicopter

Washington’s Dominion Is Ending—but Not Without a Struggle Washington’s Dominion Is Ending—but Not Without a Struggle

We’re witnessing an epochal decline in American global power.

Jan 20, 2022 / Alfred McCoy

Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall In Louisiana Leaving Devastation In Its Wake

Life Circa 2050 Will Be Bad. Really Bad. Life Circa 2050 Will Be Bad. Really Bad.

Future widespread suffering won’t be caused by some unforeseen disaster but by all-too-obvious, painfully predictable reasons.

Dec 20, 2021 / Alfred McCoy

America’s Decline Started at Home

America’s Decline Started at Home America’s Decline Started at Home

When will shifting geopolitics and climate change fully cripple Washington’s current world order?

Nov 22, 2021 / Alfred McCoy

Stop the Steal rally

Are We Ready for the Next Trump-Led Coup? Are We Ready for the Next Trump-Led Coup?

A succession of societies in the grip of a traumatic loss of global power have suffered coups, successful or not—and that includes the United States.

Oct 30, 2021 / Alfred McCoy

President Joe Biden addressing the nation on Afghanistan withdrawal

Blinken and Biden Are Right: Afghanistan Is Not Saigon Blinken and Biden Are Right: Afghanistan Is Not Saigon

But not in the way they think.

Sep 15, 2021 / Alfred McCoy

Afghanistan

The True Meaning of the Afghan ‘Withdrawal’ The True Meaning of the Afghan ‘Withdrawal’

Will the nightmare of Saigon’s fall return in Kabul?

May 11, 2021 / Alfred McCoy

Joe Biden

Washington’s Delusion of Endless World Dominion Washington’s Delusion of Endless World Dominion

Sooner or later, the US will have to accept and adapt to the geopolitical reality that undergirds the latest shift in global power.

Mar 24, 2021 / Alfred McCoy

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