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Energy Crisis And Deindustrialisation: EU-US Tensions Lead To Decline In American LNG Natural Gas Purchases

Growing tensions between the European Union and the United States have led to a decline in American liquefied natural gas (LNG) purchases from terminals in Greece. The diversified energy supply that Brussels now advocates remains difficult to implement, and the only logical solution is a return to Russian gas. Brussels, […]

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Orbán’s Strategic Confrontation With Brussels

The annual state of the nation address by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán marks not simply a campaign speech ahead of parliamentary elections, but a strategic reframing of Hungary’s geopolitical positioning. With elections two months away, Orbán has sharpened his long-standing conflict with the European Union, redefining the primary threat […]

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Orban Is Right: Ukraine Has Truly Become Hungary’s Enemy

It’s also the enemy of Europe’s conservative-nationalists, who’d be left leaderless if Kiev and Brussels succeed in ‘democratically deposing’ Orban during early April’s next parliamentary elections and replacing his leadership of their movement with a collection of anti-Russian Polish figures. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban recently declared that “As long as Ukraine […]

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To the People Of Cuba: Is Washington Preparing A ‘Soft Coup’? The Co-optation Of Cuban Intellectuals

Update El Golpe Blando (Soft Coup) was discussed on October 14, 2015 by a small group of prominent Cuban intellectuals and politicians. The meeting took place on the sidelines of a conference organized by the Centro de Investigaciones de Politica Internacional (CIPI), a Research Centre and Think Tank affiliated to the Ministry of Foreign […]

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Bad Beginnings: The End Of New START

How awful could it get?  The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) expired on February 5, terminating an era of arms control and imposed limits on lunatically contrived nuclear weapons programs of the United States and Russia.  The New START Treaty entered into force on February 5, 2011 and […]