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  The secret to electoral success? Promising sun to the cold and shade to the hot, preferably in the same sentence.   If we map political language, which is inherently ambiguous, onto logical and temporal variables, their seasonal "truths" translate like the expiration date of a yogurt taken out of the refrigerator. Politics is a system in which coherence borders on the thermodynamics of a vacuum, and we can model it as a sleight of hand.   Political art is built with bricks made of dreams held together by mortar: the principle of explosion (ex Falso sequitur quodlibet), meaning that if a system accepts both a proposition and its opposite as true, then any conclusion can be drawn.   It's a magic show where the voter hopes to be deceived again next time. The politician suffering from—fantastic lies—first convinces himself of the lies he must tell and then convinces the electorate.   The illusionist's hat is always empty: the system is made of doub...

  If you want to rule a pack of wolves, convince half of them that they're dogs.   Donald Trump's strategy has emerged as an existential challenge to the architecture of the European Union and the pillars of globalization, using the Greenland issue not only as a territorial target but as the ultimate lever of economic pressure.   Trump aims to replace global trade rules with a series of asymmetric bilateral agreements. The goal is to "destroy" the European Union as a unified negotiating bloc. By dealing separately with nations like the United Kingdom (through the 2025 Economic Prosperity Agreement) and offering preferential terms to some EU member states, Washington aims to undermine the cohesion of the single market.   The "Council for Peace": Recently mentioned in Davos (January 2026), this new body proposed by Trump suggests a worldview in which stability is guaranteed by power pacts between great powers, ignoring supranational institutions li...

  The hot desert awaits the return of the water. We often speak of water as a "resource," a word that suggests something to be measured, owned, and used. But to look at water merely as a commodity is like looking at a masterpiece and only seeing the price of the paint. Water is not just a resource; GOD created water. Man observes the microscopic dance of cells and the swirling currents of global weather patterns, seeking the secrets of that biological symphony that eludes his rational mind. It is the solvent that allows our chemistry to function and carries the electrical signals that allow the brain to think. It is the river of our bloodstream, carrying oxygen and nutrients to every remote outpost of the body. Like a thermal buffer, water is a complex mechanism that prevents our internal systems from overheating or freezing. Civilizations arise where water is abundant and predictable; they collapse when wells dry up or rainfall fails. A rich man and a poor man drin...

  We are not an empire. We are 27 crowns. No one will stop the flow of politics from one waterside to the other. Our true strength lies in the chorus of our different languages. The Transactional Storm: Assessing the Vision of a Fragmented Europe. It is a stark proposition that cuts to the very heart of the post-World War II international order, challenging the foundational wisdom of the transatlantic alliance. To address it with wisdom requires moving beyond simple conspiracy and engaging with the strategic calculus, ideological shifts, and economic forces at play. At the core of the "America First" vision, articulated through rhetoric and tariffs, is a distinctly transactional and zero-sum vision of international relations. From this perspective, the European Union is often seen less as an essential partner for democracy and more as an economic competitor and a free rider on US security guarantees. The Competitor: The EU, as a powerful, integrated regulatory bloc, is se...

  What religion do aliens have? Not the human religion that worships money. Every religious habit falls before money, before wealth. The rich love one another. There are no borders. There are no religions. Only the poor are infidels. Religions save no one because they are commandments of men; only Jesus Christ saves.   “Enter the London Stock Exchange […] There the Jew, the Mohammedan, and the Christian treat each other as if they were of the same religion, and only those who are bankrupt are called infidels.” Voltaire   You walk and then you look up at society and you see different religious landscapes within it. A thin thread, a delicate balance, a sense of indifference, a fragile tolerance. Partisan entities and not spiritual homes for all. Indeed, religion is a home of power, a home of money. Religion understands the universal language of money well.   “We have too many religions to hate one another, but not enough to love one another.” Jonathan Swi...

1 To everything there is a season, a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born and a time to die. Ecclesiastes 3:1-2   In the great tapestry of human existence, we can often notice divine whispers. The Almighty can engrave the final chapter of a life on its birth date. The idea that the end of a life is written from its beginning is a mystery like that of weaving the thread of mortal life.   The Ides of March remind us that a new era of power can be suddenly interrupted by an abrupt, violent departure. Coincidences do not exist. Or perhaps, only in the minds of some who imagine a Divine Scribe with cosmic humor playing with numbers. GOD does not play with numbers.   Of course, in our modern, rational world, we try to explain these things with science and probability. But the human spirit, in its endless search for meaning, finds something more in these numerical echoes. Man seeks the why, the cause, the common thread.   Take, for example...