by Dan Kohler | Sep 25, 2025 | Swiss Affairs, World Affairs
… and the Swiss play “Jass”, a game where, reflective of political influence in Switzerland, the “Bauer” (Farmer) is the most important card and where the small ones, cards below the six, don’t even exist. Furthermore, in Jass you...
by Dan Kohler | Sep 23, 2025 | Swiss Affairs
The Swiss are proud of their neutrality. They believe that remaining neutral when foreign countries are at war with each other, is essential for the survival of Switzerland as a small but independent country. They believe that it was their neutral stand during World...
by Dan Kohler | Sep 18, 2025 | World Affairs
In his 1992 book “The End of History”, Frank Fukuyama argued that history was essentially over, Western Capitalism had won. That system had proven itself to be vastly superior to the Socialist alternative. Frank and I had our offices next to each other, when we were...
by Dan Kohler | Sep 18, 2025 | Music, Personal
Can somebody please explain “Techno Sound” to me? I am very open to various genres of music. I like Rock, Pop, Classical, Italian like Gianna Nanini’s “Bello e Impossibile”, Frech chanson, “des chant qui chantent” like almost anything from Piaf or Becaud, classic...
by Dan Kohler | Sep 14, 2025 | US Politics, World Affairs
Donald Trump has found yet another way of avoid getting tough on Russia. He says he is willing to impose tough sanctions if the Europeans will agree on imposing secondary sanctions on India and China. He knows that won’t happen and he therefore can blame the Europeans...
