Tyranny Today

# Functions of communication # Wang Yi's trip to Europe # South Africa joins the Axis of Evil # 1st anniversary - Scenarios for the war in Ukraine

# Are we in 1938? # Alliances among dictators # 3 reasons why Iran and Russia cooperate # Mackinder resurrected

# China’s economic coercion # Limits of commercial rationality # Bad emperor problem # Russian military buildup

# Davos reminiscences # Types of statism # Tanks for Ukraine # A view from Lviv

# NPT under threat # Four types of corruption # Book recommendations # Gregg’s conclusion of the series

# comparing attack on government buildings in Brasilia to Jan 6 events in Washington # China covid reopening and its discontents # strategic shifts around Russia-Ukraine war

# Risk regions in 2023 -Russia, Belarus, Taiwan, Turkey - and how different would they look today had Putin won in just three days?

# Gregg reflects on Zelensky's visit to Washington # 10 memorable images of 2022 and what they mean

# The Qu'ran as life insurance # How geoeconomics affects geopolitics and vice versa

# Xi Jinping in Saudi Arabia # Is Saudi Arabia lost to the West? # Saudis and the US # Saudis and Russia # Saudis and China