Three weeks after his installation in the White House, President Trump is trying to resolve the Ukrainian conflict. It is clear that his advisors are blinded by their prejudices and do not understand any of Moscow’s concerns. They give him a false image of Russia’s involvement in this conflict. Realizing […]
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The US’ Coercion Of Panama Over The Canal Presages Impending Military Tensions With China
The US wants to preemptively neutralize as many of the means as possible through which China could asymmetrically respond to this scenario in plausibly deniable ways such as by having its company that controls port facilities on both sides of the canal shut down transit in the event of a […]
Greenland’s Past, Present And Future (II)
Part I This primarily concerns monitoring military activity by a potential adversary in the air and maritime areas of the North Atlantic and Arctic, which remain partially unknown territory for NATO, lacking sufficient intelligence and analysis of the situation in the region. Under these circumstances, the Danish government sees Donald […]
Cutting The Ghost Budget: Elon Musk Versus The Pentagon
The rampaging antics of a querulous, sociopathic tech oligarch as he busies himself identifying which government departments to raid, trim, if not abolish altogether, understandably concerns those in the business of government. And there is much to be concerned about with Elon Musk’s merrily psychotic scything as chief of the […]
Russia’s GDP Rose 4.1% In 2024, And Also 4.1% In 2023. America’s Grew 2.45%
On February 6th, the neoconservative and deeply influential Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center headlined “Is Russia’s Economy Collapsing?” and summarized the opinions of ‘experts’, some of whom were saying yes, and some of whom were saying maybe, and the article closed by quoting two ‘experts’ who “disputed what they described as ‘claims […]
How Europeans Are Getting Dependent On Their African Partners
Why EU pushes to reconsider partnership with Rwanda. Without Africa, the EU will not be able to compete with either China or America. This is the conclusion reached by analysts who gave the European economy a disappointing forecast: to be able to develop high-tech industries, Europe needs rare earth resources […]
Post-Assad Syria Would Do Well To Retain Their Country’s Strategic Partnership With Russia
Just because a course of action is considered to be the most rational doesn’t mean that it’ll be pursued. Syrian Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra told the Washington Post last week that the interim government might allow Russia to keep its air and naval base in the country so long […]
Trump’s ‘Deal’ To End Ukraine’s War Is To Continue Biden’s Policy
Stephen Bryen is retired from a career near the top at both the U.S. Defense Department and a top-ten U.S. armaments manufacturer, and on February 10th he issued a commentary which makes clear that Trump’s policy regarding Ukraine’s war doesn’t yet, and probably never will, separate itself from what President Biden’s […]
Russia’s Special Military Operation In Ukraine: Prospects For The Future
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched its Special Military Operation in Ukraine, which was perceived in the United States and Western Europe as “Putin’s Russia’s unprovoked aggression against democratic Ukraine.” In December 2021, at the Russian-American summit in Geneva, the-then US President Biden repelled Moscow’s offer to sign an agreement […]
You Snooze, You Lose – Italy Is Bridging Up With The Newly Reelected American President, With France And Germany Being Left Behind
From the very beginning, the second term of Donald Trump’s presidency promised to be a turning point for all established models and orders in the world. In less than a month in power, the Republican has already managed to withdraw the United States from WHO and the Paris Climate Agreement, […]
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