The Lonely Realist | Commentaries

12 Mar Fallout!

Posted at 14:45h in Business, Economics, Foreign Policy, General, International Relations, Society 0 Comments

“The West has responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by detonating its nuclear currencies. Fallout will include inflation, geopolitical instability and more.” – The Lonely Realist Vladimir Putin has set his sights on attaining immortality by following in the footsteps of Peter the Great and creating...

05 Mar The Nuclear Dollar

Posted at 14:10h in General 1 Comment

“America has responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by detonating the Nuclear Dollar, a weapon of economic devastation. Wielding it creates long-term consequences for America.” – The Lonely Realist On May 3, 2019 (here) and again on September 13, 2020 (here), TLR discussed why countries America...

26 Feb The Path to Immortality

Posted at 14:07h in General 0 Comments

“A surefire path to immortality is conquest!” – The Lonely Realist Anyone who has studied history knows the names of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Atilla the Hun, Genghis Kahn, Tamerlane, Francisco Pizarro, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mao Zedong, and Adolf Hitler. They were conquerors. Their names are...

19 Feb One Regulator to Rule Them All

Posted at 14:11h in Business, Economics, General, Law 0 Comments

“One regulator to rule them all; One regulator to find them; One regular to bring them all; And with enuf freakin red-tape bind them.” – The Lonely Realist The SEC in late January proposed regulations that would impose new and costly burdens on managers of private...

13 Feb The Failure of American Foreign Policy – Re-posted*

Posted at 06:13h in International Relations 0 Comments

TLR published the following commentary on September 30, 2019. It – and earlier posts such as Axis of the Sanctioned and later ones like Foreign Policy Lessons Forgotten – are once again timely in light of Russia's pending threatened actions against Ukraine. Historians eagerly highlight the...

12 Mar Fallout!

05 Mar The Nuclear Dollar

26 Feb The Path to Immortality

19 Feb One Regulator to Rule Them All

13 Feb The Failure of American Foreign Policy – Re-posted*

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