Intelligence from New Zealand and their own automated systems had detected a violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397 – a centrepiece of the American campaign to bring down North Korea's nuclear and ballistic weapons programme. Someone was transferring money to the North Koreans, a breach of the US Treasury’s Destination Country and Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list.  Someone was violating US enforcement of sanctions on North Korea. Someone was going to pay for it. 

Commodore Steve Jermy (ret) recently gave a masterclass in strategy – how to measure success and how to achieve it. If the West applied these simple tools of analysis it would abandon its current approach to international relations.

It’s time to stop this Medieval siege. UN Security Council Resolution 2397 has already killed thousands of North Korean civilians. As long as it remains in force, hundreds of thousands of innocent people remain at risk in a country that is suffering dire food insecurity. New Zealand, Australia and the US have played a major role in inflicting foreseeable lethal consequences on North Korean civilians. Sanctions against the North’s weapons programme have achieved nothing but human misery.

Trump’s rough woo-ing of Canada to become the 51st state, and his threat to use military force to seize both Greenland and the Canal, speak to a back-to-basics focus for American imperialism – a shift in US policy that will bring it closer to its core strategic interests

As protests unfold in Iran, Israeli and US figures openly talk of regime collapse. Foreign interference risks worsening violence and derailing change from within. What’s really going on?

The leading political and military leaders in Europe are sounding the alarm: major war is coming to Europe; millions of soldiers could be fighting in the cities and plains of the continent within five years as a violent, expansionist Russia seeks to re-establish its empire. Who is challenging this narrative?

The leading political and military leaders in Europe are sounding the alarm: major war is coming to Europe; millions of soldiers could be fighting in the cities and plains of the continent within five years as a violent, expansionist Russia seeks to re-establish its empire. What is really happening?

It doesn’t take much to de-code the White House National Security Strategy’s message to the rest of the Americas: if you’re not ready to be our poodles, be afraid, be very afraid. 

“We will assert and enforce a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine to ensure that the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable and well-governed.”