Great Minds Think Alike

While it may be presumptuous to refer to myself as a “great mind,” I have never really had any qualms about my freakishly healthy ego. That said, there are two articles these I read recently and very much enjoyed that highlight the very importance of what I have been writing about here.
Diplomacy 2.0 by Kenneth Weisbrode, The Guardian
Favorite quote:
“When, after the first world war, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the advent of the so-called New Diplomacy, whereby secrecy and the balance of power would be replaced by open covenants and collective security, many people regarded such things as the dreams of an idealist preacher.”