@jeremycorbyn @BernieSanders oppose the one path to peace

04 Nov 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in international economics, liberalism, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Jeremy Corbyn is in trouble again, this time for describing World War I as pointless.

Corbyn has, for all his life, opposed the only means of securing peace either in Europe or anywhere else. He is against trade agreements, the European Union and NATO. Bernie Sanders is equally as misguided.

Corbyn and Sanders thinks you can make peace just by talking with people. Peace is made by trading with hostile countries to make them depend on you for their prosperity as well as yours. By growing rich through free trade, it’s in no ones interest to go to war or have poor relations with each other or each other’s friends.

Fred Thompson’s America

02 Nov 2015 2 Comments

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Who has gained ground after the Russian air strikes?

01 Nov 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in war and peace Tags: , , ,

Last British Gitmo prisoner released

30 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in International law, war and peace Tags: ,

Why this Bozo wanted to be put on trial is beyond me.

The usual sentence for a terrorist offence in a US court is life without parole. He had a much better deal being detained until either the end of hostilities or until the combatant status review tribunal determined he was no longer likely to rejoin the fight. The combatant status review tribunals have made a number of errors and up to 100 Gitmo detainees have rejoined their battle to destroy Western civilisation.

If he had been put on trial and convicted, that meant the rest of his life in prison in maximum-security. If found not guilty, he would have remained in Gitmo until the end of hostilities or until a combatant status review tribunal released him early.

Vietnam War tunnels

30 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in war and peace Tags:

The ups and downs of the Afghan war

23 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: , ,

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Israel-Palestine: 2 Very Different Narratives

19 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

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The Taleban is back

17 Oct 2015 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: , ,

https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/653888723034222592/photo/1

The revival of the Taliban

17 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: ,

Lies @PresidentAbbas told you about Palestinian terrorists

16 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in war and peace Tags: , ,

German and French war planners both believed WWI was going to be an offensive one

11 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in war and peace Tags: ,

How the Taliban overlaps ethnicity in Afghanistan

11 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in war and peace Tags: , , ,

Refugee populations by country of asylum – UK, USA, France and Germany since 1960

10 Oct 2015 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, population economics, war and peace

I had to use two charts because Germany hosted so many refugees after in the early 1990s that it made the reading the remaining data not possible because of the scale of the axis.

UNHCR – UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database.


UNHCR – UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database.

British, French, German and Italian asylum seeker intake since 1980

09 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, population economics, war and peace

The Germans admitted so many asylum seekers in the early 1990s that I have had to reproduce the graph without Germany so some meaningful interpretation can be made of the three other countries.

Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.

The British started to admit a great many more refugees at the end of the 1990s compared to the already large number admitted at the beginning. Italy is only started offering shelter to a significant number of asylum seekers since the end of the 1990s. The French have been pretty consistently admitting reasonable numbers of asylum seekers and adjusting their quota upwards in a crisis.

Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.

Scandinavian asylum seeker intake since 1980

09 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, population economics, war and peace

Sweden took in so many asylum seekers in the early 1990s that I am reproducing the graph for the period after to give the data more meaning. Swedish generosity so dominates the rest of Scandinavia that it distorts any reading of the graph unless it is split into two.

Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat

Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat

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