Silent Lonesome Man

Recent reports from various media outlets indicated that growing dissatisfaction toward the Joe Biden Administration among the Saudi government of the young Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has led the Crown Prince to shun the U.S. President. This is extremely relevant when Putin's Russia waged an invasion on Ukraine, when the Crown Prince, by a shock move, ghosted Biden but responded to a call by the Russian dictator. Riyadh has demonstrated clearly that it will not respond to any American attempt calling for help unless the United States realigned its policy to Saudi interests, and to further enhance the economic threat, Saudi Arabia has even extended its invitation to Chinese leader Xi Jinping to visit the country and moving toward using Chinese yuan in foreign trade exchange instead of U.S. dollar. President Biden could only make calls with the Crown Prince's father, King Salman . Yet the move of MBS could not come at the time when everything is not in favour of the Crown...

On January 6th, 2021, a shocking unrest broke out near the Capitol Hill. Encouraged by then-upcoming ousted President Donald Trump, who kept repeating the false claim about stolen elections, the crowd invaded the Capitol Hill, killing at least five people (including one policeman) with hope to u-turn the election. The insurrection failed, but this was a turning point - for many American lawmakers, it was a clear assault on the country's democratic system and thus, various groups like Proud Boys, QAnon and Oath Keepers have been listed as "domestic terrorists" - a really scornful term to describe people trying to remove democracy in the States. The reactions was immediate - a complete shame for so many Vietnamese people abroad. A lot of Vietnamese scholars openly condemned the assault and accused the people of insulting Vietnamese freedom heritage flag and its culture. For some people, this assault was even more effective than any communist propaganda perpetuated - it rui...

What shocked the world most was the eventual collapse of the whole Afghan civilian administration after just a week in charge following the United States' withdrawal, the return of the Taliban even made it complicated when the group has slowly revealed its terror-based medieval ideology to rule Afghanistan once it came back to power in Kabul. Afghanistan was led by a civilian, but highly ineffective government, built by the United States. The devastation was beyond just military use - but it is also far worse. It's about the United States' honour suffered a fatal blow. Joe Biden, a protégé of Barack Obama and was expected to deliver a mission to recover the U.S. from the destructive policies of Donald Trump, saw his popularity plummeted. Many allies began to realise something, which is painful, also what Russia and China wanted to tell them for a long time: the U.S. is not trustworthy at all. This is creating a huge emotional and political crisis that has never been experie...

I'll take an example of a far away past. In 1950, when North Korea, armed to teeth by the Soviet Union, invaded the poorly organised South, the South was nearly overrun. The United States and her allies came to intervene, successfully curbed the communist expansion, and saved the South, recovered Seoul, before a ceasefire treaty was signed in 1953, temporarily halted all hostilities. Since 1953, South Korea began its sojourn journey from a completely devastated nation to become one of the greatest economic prospects in the modern world. All were achieved under a similar American-backed system. However, with the exception of South Korea, almost every America-backed government collapsed immediately when the United States began the process of leaving. Why? And what happened? South Korea's success should have been copied. Instead, what we saw was South Vietnam, Iraq and most recently, Afghanistan - where America-backed administrations collapsed horrendously. What makes them lack so...

I read from an article of The Michigan Daily , where a columnist published an interesting fact that always appears in my mind for a long time, yet finally revealed after too long. It is frequently neglected by Western media, something I can't stand for it. Brandon Cowit, who has made an attempt to search about Russia, has come to a clear conclusion that the Americans totally "ignore" the grief Russians endured. During the 1990s, Russia was led by Boris Yeltsin, considered the friendliest President for the West. Despite Yeltsin's reputation as a drunk, inept and incompetent, with a disastrous neoliberal reform, the West did nothing to solve the problem. Furthermore, the United States openly helped Yeltsin to be re-elected in 1996. As Yeltsin was running like a drunk in Dublin, London, Washington and Paris, Russia's reputation was tarnished globally, including the shock defeat in the First Chechen War to the Chechen separatists. That nurtured Soviet nostalgia that e...

When the United States President, Joe Biden, officially announced his recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the Turkish President Erdogan has been infiltrated to his dismay. Like the majority of Turkish nationals, many are strong nationalists, he has rejected the genocide accusation. Yet in the past, only a minority of countries in the world would do this recognition, Uruguay and Cyprus spearheaded. Once the Cold War ended, however, the world shifted to a multipolar order, and the Armenian Genocide began to be remembered widespread. But the United States was, until 2019, not one of the countries that acknowledged the tragedy. With Erdogan's relationship with the West worsened, the United States had seized the opportunity. The American Congress in 2019 made a shocking move, officially denounced the Ottoman massacre of Armenians in 1915 as a genocide. The news from Washington D.C. delivered to the world with surprise because the United States never tried to recognise this before. Erd...

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1399499780712243201 When former Trump security advisor Michael Flynn attended a QAnon parade, where he made an infamous speech calling for a coup d'etat to occur - with the echoes from the Republicans, we have to be startled to hear this. Trump's megalomania about the rigged election, never found any evidence to support such a theory, appears to be far from over. Trump's followers insist that Trump is still the legal President, pointing out how the coup in Myanmar could serve as an inspiration for many Trumpers. This disgusting phenomenon went viral and Flynn tried to backtrack from his earlier words, but it didn't impress 2/3 Americans as well as the rest of the democratic world. Given how Flynn was pardoned by Trump and returned to become Trump's servant, having been sacked by Trump before, it showed how Trumpism actually developed. This also captured my belief about the Vietnamese Americans, and its large diaspora's ima...

The United States officially recognised the Armenian Genocide in 2019, when Congress issued state recognition of the mass atrocities against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in World War I. The effort was rebuffed by then-President Donald Trump, who has a harmonious relationship with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, but when Trump lost in the 2020 election, Joe Biden officially broke out from the predecessors and finally stated the same on April 24, 2021. Armenians are certainly happy, while Turkish and Azerbaijani nationalists are definitely dissatisfied with what they just saw. Unfortunately for the United States, the recognition could be a reckless move, since the recognition may have also unravelled how the alliance between the West to Turkey is moving spiral backwards. And this can be even more menacing for Washington D.C. because their recognition of the genocide might leave Turkey to project its ambitions independently and clashing with even NATO, EU and in general Western world, leave alon...

Ever since the Euromaidan and tensions increased between Ukraine and Russia, Kyiv has sought to become a prominent player within Europe, by trying to join NATO and EU. But while France and Germany have become more reluctant to accept Ukraine into the EU, due to the unwanted Brexit that saw the United Kingdom left the group, joining NATO maybe even more problematic because NATO also has members who share veto powers. One of them is Turkey, as Kyiv has been seeking to cultivate a friendlier alliance. Now, with U.S. President Joe Biden going to address the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, this can become a problem for Kyiv. Pro-Turkish and anti-Armenian views Ukraine has been at the spotlight when the Euromaidan when Ukrainians joined the protest demanding the pro-Russian President, Viktor Yanukovych, to leave power. The Maidan lasted for a year before it successfully toppled the President, forcing him to flee to Russia. The first death in the Maidan was a Ukrainian national of Armen...

  Israel and Russia are two totally contrasting nations. Russia is a dictatorship with Vladimir Putin in charge of Russia from 2000 onward. Israel is illiberal democracy, which has a rightfully elected government, but conservative and right-wing, a legacy of Arab-Jewish hostilities dated back to 1948. Moreover, Israel is an ally of the United States and a major partner of NATO; Russia is neither. Under that circumstance, Russia and Israel have to be enemies. But it doesn't go that way. Instead, Israel and Russia enjoy some of their best in relations, in particular since the fall of Soviet Union. But this may not be examined without understanding how. Yet when I read an article an Israeli Institute, say, Moshe Dayan Center, I was aware of the resentful attitude against European Union among Israeli population. It still prevails to even today, maybe spearheaded than their once resentment against Russia. So the question comes through, why? I think it needs to be addressed. A different ...