Thoughts on National Security and Politics in the Coronavirus Era

Now would have been purely an era of a war of the novel coronavirus versus human beings originally or normally, because the coronavirus disaster has the two most frightening aspects: that the threat is still here and will happen again, and that you cannot see it.[i]

Of course, there are aspects of the human war on coronavirus in the real life on the Earth. However, even under the current peculiar crisis, most people must point out conspicuous battles of human beings versus human beings, including those of a country versus some other country.

Some people might say it is a…


Reallocation of labor amid and after the Coronavirus crisis - it is necessary to physically survive now at first, though.

Please note that

- now of course, we need to survive physically at first;

- to feel at ease when we hear various economists’ opinions*;

- to proceed all the processes based on best-laid plans for the reallocation in a businesslike manner; and

- to rule out purely-political movements/wills, which could distort should-be results.

And I have no personal/emotional concrete preferences for the direction of the reallocation. Here I am just writing my thought or prospect. I would be really pleased if this article could be of some help when people think about the near future.

While we human beings…


Republic of Ireland

We could say that, based on the traditional notion that Sinn Féin (SF) is a terroristic political party which has plotted to topple the government, the Irish people have entrusted their administrations to Fine Gael (FG) or Fianna Fáil (FF) for about 90 years. However, this time SF won the biggest number of the first-preference votes under Ireland’s single transferable vote (STV) system, and acquired 37 TDs out of just 42 candidates in the 39 multi-seat constituencies while FG did 35 and FF did 38 out of much bigger number of candidates.

Here I would consider [1.] how SF overcame…

Taku Nakaminato

Founder/President of World Solutions LLC http://ws-jp.co.jp/ . Formerly @ Government of Japan. Published https://www.amazon.com/Taku-Nakaminato/e/B07HHZRR7S .

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