N. LYGEROS PhD

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76228 - Postface

Lorsqu’un ami, qui est un combattant de la cause arménienne, écrit sa propre histoire, il est impossible ...

76036 - Tous les matins du monde

Il avait en tête la viole de gambe comme dans tous les matins du monde, aussi il était nécessaire de jouer de cet instrument à l'instar de Marin Marais. Il y avait pensé après avoir tenu le ...

75864 - The Irish miracle

Life is rare. This point of Oscar Wilde is fundamental to understanding the Irish miracle. Normally with all the problems which were created by the British policies in time, Ireland should be dead...

75863 - The British genocide

Everybody is talking about the famine in Ireland. But in reality this starvation wasn’t natural. It wasn’t only a disease or even a problem with potatoes. By the way, potatoes had only one century...

75862 - Le bateau du passé

Soudainement la chambre se transforma en navire immobile comme s'il était amarré dans le passé. La lumière s'assombrit comme s'il était dans une cale prêt à partir. Cette immobilité était ...

75861 - Καταγραφή Podcast #46: Επιτυχία Κρόνος 1 – ΑΟΖ Κύπρου

Στο θαλάσσιο οικόπεδο 6, όπου βρίσκεται το κοίτασμα Κρόνος 1, έχουμε επιτέλους τα επίσημα αποτελέσματα, τόσο από την εταιρεία Eni και την εταιρεία TotalEnergies, όσο και από το Υπουργείο Ενέργειας, άρα μπορούμε τώρα να πούμε ότι έχουμε μια συνολική ποσότητα για το φυσικό αέριο της τάξης των 2,5 τρισεκατομμυρίων κυβικών ποδιών (2.5 Tcf)...

75860 - The passion of freedom

The passion of freedom is natural in Irish Faith. From the Viking time, the people of Ireland knew what slavery was. And the word occupation had a meaning in the next centuries. It was the same for the oppression...

75858 - Irish achievements

In 1999, Ireland joined NATO’s Partnership for Peace program. Since 1999, Ireland has contributed to the NATO-led Kosovo peace keeping force...

75857 - The previous proposition

After the fall of Chamberlain, Winston Churchill formed a National Government. It was an all-party coalition. This was a reason to keep Malcolm MacDonald. His political career was well known in Palestine...

75856 - In the heart of Dublin

In the heart of Dublin, you can find the essence of the Irish spirit. The Churches and the Museums play a fundamental role because they prove that its future has a past and that there is a continuity...

75855 - The Lady in green

Could you please paint me with my umbrella? Is the color fine for you? Because it's a symbol for me. I know that you know that but I wanted to tell you about it, at least one word. Could I also have my lovely hat?...

75854 - The historical step

Ireland needs right now to make a new historical step in its Grand Strategy. Its history was clear even with shadows because the light is powerful. The issue was only a tactical problem or even a proxy...

75853 - The path of the beauty

Before history, you need beauty to make it. And the path of the beauty started in 1916. It was the time of sacrifice, to create the necessary bifurcation for the future. One century later, the strategy...

75852 - L’essence irlandaise

Dans sa mémoire venait s'ancrer l'histoire irlandaise comme si c'était un vaisseau de guerre à la recherche d'un port d'attache où il pourrait enfin vivre sa si précieuse liberté ...

75850 - Καταγραφή Podcast #45: Περί Θέλησης

Σε αυτό το podcast θέλουμε να ασχοληθούμε με την έννοια της θέλησης. Η θέληση, παρόλο που δεν φαίνεται τουλάχιστον αρχικά, έχει την ιακανότητα να αλλάξει μερικά δεδομένα και να παρουσιάσει...

75849 - The castle of memory

Ireland is like a castle of memory in the ocean. You can see its loneliness if your thought is oppressed by geography. But if you think about Ireland, in the framework of history, you will discover the knot work of Mankind...

75848 - The Easter Rising

The pivotal moment in modern Irish history was the Eastern Rising. But how to understand this without being in 1916? After one century, it's possible to see the fire in the steel of the time from the perspective of the Rebels...

75847 - La chambre irlandaise 

Sans se rendre compte de la bifurcation créée par sa pensée, il se retrouva dans la chambre irlandaise, juste après avoir contemplé le jardin de la mémoire. Il était assis ...

75846 - The Garden of Remembrance

For the warriors of Mankind the whole Ireland looks like the garden of remembrance in Dublin i.e. a tranquil memorial dedicated to the memory of all those who gave their lives for the cause of Irish freedom like...

75845 - History makers

You don’t need only a church and a faith to be a history maker but it’s important when you have to fight with a bigger country than yours. But the point is always the same, you need also Grand Strategy to avoid...

75843 - Kilmainham Gaol

Even in prison, you can find a part of Irish history. Sure, it’s different to imagine it but you can if you want to comfort the souls of the innocents and the Righteous who fought for the Independence of Ireland against the inhumane occupation...

75842 - In Saint Stephen’s Green

In Saint Stephen’s Green it’s possible to see a Victorian gem in the center of Dublin which represents a human history for the Irish people. You can see a memorial of the Great Famine, the Fusiliers’ Arch...

75841 - The Irish Faith

It’s impossible to imagine such a strong faith without being in Ireland and especially in Dublin. This feeling was impressive in Saint Patrick’s Church. Every corner of it, has its symbolism...

75747 - Καταγραφή – Κυπριακές εκλογές – Ένσταση 8

Σήμερα το θέμα μας αφορά τη δημοκρατία. Είναι λογικό εμείς που βρισκόμαστε σε χώρες δημοκρατικές να εκφραζόμαστε ελεύθερα για τη δημοκρατία και να την αξιοποιούμε. Σε άλλες χώρες π.χ. στην Κούβα, στη Βόρεια Κορέα, στο Λάος, στο Βιετνάμ...

75744 - Le secret du carnet

Sur le bureau l'attendait son nouveau carnet. Il venait de finir d'écrire un livre et commençait à peine à l'utiliser. D'ailleurs c'était sur ce dernier qu'il avait écrit les derniers ...

75737 - Free men

Nazism and Communism were and are against freedom. They never had a problem with peace because it’s only the end of the war with the result they wanted...

75736 - Unfree systems

The question is not if you are from the West or the East, but if you love freedom. Some people never had the opportunity to be free because the birth was...

75735 - The freedom

The freedom had always been dangerous for all the totalitarian systems. But a lot of them had chosen the symbol of peace...

75731 - Accumulation by dispossession

It’s really funny to see that one of the first critics against capitalism i.e. accumulation by dispossession became a motto for communism. Its metamorphoses didn’t try to apply the notion of equality but to use...

75730 - The Metamorphoses of Communism

Communism started with simple ideas but their combinations were incompatible. This generated a structural error. But its believers tried to convert it while they were saying that the problem was the reality...

75729 - Communism and disease

From the start, communism was presented like a therapy to the illness of the society. And communists in their imagination where represented always as healthy people....

75727 - Great errors

The Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1962 was such a great disaster that it implied the Great Chinese Famine which was the largest famine in human history...

75726 - Territorial Disputes

Far away from China everything looks fine. But after a zoom we can see many territorial disputes between the People’s Republic of China and neighboring states...

75722 - Hammer time

Communism used and uses a hammer and sickle as symbol. It used the sickle to kill the interior resistance...

75718 - ONE

When we are fighting against barbarity we have to be ONE, in the sense of Mankind...

75711 - La chope en cristal 

Au moment où la musique s'arrêta, son regard se posa sur l'étagère des romans. Juste devant eux se trouvait une chope en cristal. Elle portait ...

75709 - About terrorism

It’s important from the beginning of the study about terrorism that this notion isn’t necessarily negative for every system. For black or red barbarity it was only a tool for the system, not even a weapon...

75707 - War and Tyranny

War and Tyranny were mentioned by Winston Churchill as the two great dangers which menace the homes of the people. Both of them were used...

75692 - Music against barbarity

In slavery states, art is always filled with health and happiness. This motif represents an obsession. Everyone has to be healthy and of course happy. There is no choice. But in Mankind, the situation is totally different...

75691 - Musique de chambre

Les instruments qui étaient dans la pièce représentaient le complémentaire des tableaux. Ces derniers appartenaient au passé comme les premiers au futur. Les tableaux ...

75677 - Old new man

In the propaganda of the Soviet Union the idea of the  newman was crucial. In this system, everything had to be new...

75676 - Russian shame

At the beginning, the Kremlin said that the invasion in Ukraine was only a special military operation and that it was a duty to liberate the poor Ukrainians from the government of Kyiv...

75675 - Losing their religion

After so many errors and failures the Soviet spirit changed because it saw that its believers started to lose their religion. With all the atrocities and even the genocides, it was impossible to continue with the same way...

75674 - American archives

When we are fighting against totalitarian regimes it's important to have access to historical archives. Because of the supremacy of propaganda in space, time became the place of the resistance...

75673 - Artificial Heaven

As Heaven was impossible for Soviets, they had to create artificial heaven to convince their believers. It was the place of forced happiness. And it was the same for all the workers. That’s why forced work was...

75667 - La libération de l’essence

À travers l'œuvre picturale, il ne voyait que trop bien l'importance de la libération de l'essence. Avant le croquis, le dessin, l'étude préparatoire, elle était comme confinée ...

75665 - Turkey and Soviets

1964: Change of phase. Turkey became a priority of the Soviet Union. The Soviets started talking about the rights of the two national communities. Gromyko said even more...

75661 - Strategic errors

The Greek Democratic Army was completely controlled by the Greek Communist Party and it was assisted  by the new communist regimes of Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia always, under the control of Big Brother i.e. the Soviet Union...

75657 - The losers of Yalta

Yalta was a defeat for some countries that were convinced to belong to the Eastern Bloc. But Yalta rejected them officially. The communists of those countries had felt that it was possible to get one victory...

75656 - Soviet propaganda

From the start due to the low level of the strategy which was fragile, the Soviet Union had to use propaganda. For its system deception was natural. When it’s impossible to change the reality, it’s possible to change its interpretation in the brain of the victims. The paradox is that the first victims belong to the system. They were of course...

75652 - The dragons stay alive

Chinese forces are playing go game with Taiwan. They have essentially encircled Taiwan with their military exercises. It’s a demonstration of their power in a rather direct way...

75651 - Le fauteuil du futur

La chaise n'était plus suffisante pour contempler l'œuvre. Rapidement l'idée du fauteuil devint une nécessité. Chaque nouveau dessin, chaque nouveau croquis lui rappelait son existence. Il devait ...

75641 - Freedom in the World

It was common in Soviet Union to donate monuments to countries which were even partially controlled by its system.  Soviet Union ...

75640 - Étude préparatoire

Cette étude préparatoire était différente car elle avait en elle la notion d'auto-référence. La représentation choisie devait comporter le bureau sur lequel elle serait conçue par la suite. À cet instant, il eut ...

75639 - Pseudo-referenda

Russia has the tradition to use pseudo-referenda in the occupied territories to legitimate the situation. This method is also used in the context of the annexation...

75633 - Cold warriors

Against the means of propaganda, we have to be cold warriors even after the end and the fall of the Soviet Union. Because the Soviet dreams are still here. They always use the same techniques i.e. victimization...

75632 - The mechanisms of partisan bias

It’s difficult to realize how the mechanism of partisan bias works but it’s important to study it if we want to understand the past of the Cold war but also its future. Because the moves of Russia or China...

75631 - Cyclic form in politics

Usually we use the expression cyclic form as an attempt of musical composition in which a theme occurs in more than one movement as a unifying device. But it is of course possible to study it in politics...

75630 - Rules and neuropolitics

Simple rules can create complex situations and not only in strategic games. In real life it’s possible to find many examples of that type. Concretely this means that it is easier to try to understand...

75627 - American Duty

The Soviet Union never understood the position of the US about Europe. In a system which was working ...

75625 - Κυπριακές Εκλογές – Ένσταση 7

Τώρα που ετοιμαζόμαστε σιγά σιγά όλοι για τις κυπριακές εκλογές, βλέπουμε ότι διαμορφώνεται μια κατάσταση η οποία για μας είναι επικίνδυνη και αφορά την ικανότητα διαχείρισης ενός κράτους...

75624 - Strategic reciprocity

The Europeans wanted, of course, to ensure that the United States would automatically come to their assistance. This was clear from the beginning. They knew what they had done in WW I and WWII and they had...

75623 - The European initiative

Due to Soviet propaganda, normal people are convinced that the creation of NATO was an american idea. In fact, it’s false. The Treaty between France and the United Kingdom in 1947 and its generalization...

75618 - Le nouveau péplos

Il venait de lire des études sur l'Antiquité grecque avant d'ouvrir son carnet pour faire des croquis sur cette tunique féminine de style dorien. Le péplos qu'il avait en tête devait être à la fois ...

75613 - Soviet Dirty operations

It’s impossible to imagine how many Soviet dirty operations were even in the United States of America. The KGB tried to influence the Communist Party USA, Martin Luther King Junior. But it failed...

75612 - Operation Denver

The Operation Denver was an active measure disinformation campaign. It was an idea of the KGB in the 1980s. They wanted to show that the United States had invented HIV/AIDS...

75611 - The puppetmaster

From the beginning, in the Ante Cold War, the Soviet intelligence was interested in Britain, France, Germany and of course the United States in the fields of military and industrial affairs...

75610 - Save Mankind

In Russia and in China a lot of people said that for so many years that History is dead or even that it had to be killed...

75608 - The Soviet tail

According to the Russian government’s declassified material, the Soviet Union tested about 1000 nuclear devices between 1949 and 1990...

75607 - Soviet espionage

The contributions of the Soviet espionage were huge in different fields. And this point is in fact a proof that the Soviet system knew the level of its scientists. It didn’t trust them in finding how to create...

75606 - Intelligence against Propaganda

The US had the intelligence to create the atomic bomb and the Soviet Union the spies to copy it. It was already a big difference. But the US had also the counterintelligence which was intended to decrypt...

75605 - Soviet nuclear weapon

As usual, in Soviet Union, everything was classified and especially the Soviet atomic bomb project. Of course, this one had nothing to do with the Manhattan Project...

75604 - Atomic memory

It's important to keep in mind a decision which has changed the history of the world. Because for Humanity it was a step of conscience. It's death wasn't more a taboo. People had to know that even...

75603 - L’amour des pinceaux

Il pensa que même ceux qui aimaient la peinture ne s'occupaient guère de la qualité des pinceaux. Ils avaient sans doute l'impression que leurs traces n'étaient pas visibles. Aussi ils ne ...

75600 - Irresponsible positions

The Chinese Communist Party regards Taiwan as its territory despite the fact that it was never controlled by its army. It's a characteristic for the ...

75591 - Playing with fire

China wants to threaten Taiwan. It’s obvious but it’s really insufficient. And the reason is simple. Nationalists and ...

75586 - Sur l’art pictural

Il s'approcha du tableau mental et se posa la question de la nature de l'art pictural. Il ne s'agissait pas simplement d'une représentation ou même d'une simulation de la réalité. Il y avait quelque ...

75584 - Neural network and strategy

If we realize that a neural network can learn to recognize objects in less than one hundred lines of codes and also that after training it is characterized by millions of weights that contain...

75582 - Fake Nuclear fear

The Russian forces as a soviet system, want to use the nuclear fear to demolish Western will to provide military support to a Ukraine counterattack. As they don’t want to directly use...

75577 - Vom Druck zur Blockade

China sagte, seine Übungen seien eine Simulation einer Luft-und Seeblockade um Taiwan herum. Dieser Druck ist für einen totalitären Staat gegen eine Demokratie natürlich...

75577 - From pressure to blockade

China said that its exercises are a simulation of an air and sea blockade around Taiwan. This pressure is natural for a totalitarian State against a democracy. Because in its mind, it’s the easiest way to get a result quickly...

75576 - Live fire exercises

The totalitarian systems love special military operations and live-fire exercises. This is their method when proxy wars are no more efficient and relevant to get the results they want...

75575 - L’essence de la peinture

Dans son petit atelier, il était assis à son bureau. À gauche, les partitions musicales, juste à côté les carnets qu'il n'avait pas encore utilisés et enfin ses ...

75570 - Deep History

Don’t waste your time with the news. You need only Deep History to understand the connection with Grand Strategy...

75565 - The Russian propaganda

The narrative of Russia about the US is clearly a fake history from the beginning. Russia as a victim in its eyes considered that as a country had to fight to exist...

75564 - The Taiwan Miracle

We use the expression the Taiwan Miracle to characterize his rapid industrialization and economic growth. This is the reason for the Four Asian Tigers with Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea...

75554 - Mankind’s position

Many people avoid considering Mankind’s position. They prefer to say that everything is possible and that we should put any restriction. They want to be considered as open minded guys...

75553 - Beyond proxy wars

As proxy wars are no more sufficient and efficient for Russia and China, they prefer to be directly implicated in the targeted countries. That’s why the free intelligence services, i.e. from Europe and America...

75551 - Secular barbarity

With the destruction of the past, the People’s Republic of China celebrated the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party. It is a part of what the government described as the Chinese Dream...

75548 - Post Cold War

The Cold War began with the Second Red Scare in 1947. The first one was in 1917 and it was the flashpoint of the Ante Cold War. With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the end of this kind of war...

75539 - The empty box

It is difficult to accept that a Civil War could be in fact only a proxy war of the Cold War. Because this means that for decades you lived in the frame of propaganda and you thought that it was important to know which of the enemies...

75538 - Small wars time

The partition of Europe wasn't symmetrical. On the one hand we had a free Alliance on the other a forced cooperation. The first was a need of Europe, the second a pressure against Europe...

75537 - The Treaty of Warsaw

Stalin wanted to control the small brothers via an artificial cooperation in Central Europe. The Soviet Union founded the Comecon in 1949 with Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania...

75519 - Transcription #28 First Treaties of Treason

For this podcast we are going to study the first Treaties, in fact of Treason. We are always in the framework of the Ante Cold War and we are trying to find some new reasons to understand the behavior of the Soviet Union...

75517 - The new shape

The Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe i.e. SHAPE was a reality. But it wasn’t an action...

75516 - New Treaties

The Treaty of Dunkirk in 1947 and the Treaty of Brussels in 1948 were the precursors of the Treaty of Washington in 1949...

75515 - Paradoxes

It looks like a paradox but the communists generated Nazism as a reaction. From the beginning Hitler tried to unite Nazi factions in opposition ...

75514 - The Arsenal of Democracy

Sooner or later, it was impossible to resist the pressure of the future war. Of course, it was very difficult that this war would be World War II...

75513 - Interbellum

The global policy of the free countries had to be changed in the Ante Cold War and especially in the Interbellum  even if that time it was ...