Every year at this time the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the world’s most powerful alliance for the past 77 years, holds a conference in Munich to examine its state of health. The one just past was really a wake, but it played out more like the immortal Dead Parrot
Russia has its endless war in Ukraine, Africa has the Sudanese civil war, the U.S. is on the brink of invading Venezuela, India and Pakistan had a brief (non-nuclear) war in South Asia, and Israel bombed Iran, Qatar, Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla made a two-day visit to Canada this week to open the 45th parliament of his Canadian domain.
The current strategy of the Israel Defence Force involves starving the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip into leaving the entire territory.