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 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 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...
by Dan Kohler | Sep 9, 2025 | World Affairs
“Suppose they declared a war and nobody came” was an often-used slogan among the peaceniks of the sixties, when I lived in the US as an exchange student. A significant number of young men decided to go to Canada to avoid the draft. They did not have the necessary...
by Dan Kohler | Aug 26, 2025 | US Politics, World Affairs
Never in the history of mankind has a real estate transaction ended a war. I may be wrong on this, so if you have examples where swapping land or simply ceding territory has led to lasting peace, please let me know. The real estate tycoon in the white house does not...
by Dan Kohler | Aug 14, 2025 | Ukraine, World Affairs
In September 1938, the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, met Adolf Hitler in Munich for a Summit. On August 15, 2025, the American President Donald Trump, will meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska for a Summit. Hitler wants to annex a significant part of...
