N. LYGEROS PhD

World War I was a victory at the end. It was the same for World War II...

Spezielle militärische Operationen sind eine Möglichkeit, schmutzige Kriege zu führen...

Special military operations are a way to make dirty wars. Invasions are illegal. Everybody knows that...

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...

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...

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...

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...

With all those elements it was natural to introduce the expression Second Cold War. But it has not a unique sense...

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...

At the end of the Cold War, communism ended in Afghanistan...

Declassification by default: 10 years. Declassification for review with nine narrow exceptions: 25 years...

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...

She was driving a Mustang but in her mind...

On the road, in the car, they were so close that they could feel their legs...

When you have nothing to lose it’s easy to fight...

Imagine a free state. Then conceive a manipulation...

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...

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...

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...