“Iran delenda est”. With this maniacal struggle cry – analogous to that utilized by Cato the Elder advert nauseum to push Rome to struggle with Carthage for the third time in 149 BC – the US, on the u...
03.12.2026 Indiatimes.com and 1 sites
The Roman senator and orator Cato the Elder (real name: Marcus Porcius Cato) famously ended every speech with the Latin phrase Carthago delenda est (“Carthage must be destroyed”). He used this phrase ...
03.09.2026 Timesofisrael.com
The Georgian Dream That Poisoned Its People 12 March , by Nino Mamalashvili © Wikimedia Commons Share Facebook Twitter There are moments when politics ceases to be abstract. In Georgia, that moment di...
03.12.2026 Thenewfederalist.eu
Empires do not stand before the world and confess weakness. They do not admit that the structures that once sustained their dominance are beginning to fracture. Decline is a secret they guard jealousl...
03.11.2026 Pmldaily.comNoel Grima At 8pm on Friday night last week Prime Minister Robert Abela inaugurated the huge and costly 2050 vision, drawn up by a select group without any public consultation at all. But just 12 hours later US and Israeli planes bombarded Iran: that 2050 vision became dust and wind, and outdated. Anyone could have told Abela a war was coming and everything would be up in the air. It seems however they have run out of common sense up in Castile's rooms, stoked up as they are on hubris, and still...
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