Trump is preparing for negotiations with Putin over Ukraine as well as with Xi over trade and likely also Taiwan, so he’d appear weak in their eyes if he let a middling leader like Petro publicly defy and even insult him without consequence. Colombian President Gustavo Petro thought that he’d […]
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France Won’t Fight The US Over Greenland
It’s not going to risk breaking up NATO, let alone over a war that it’ll certainly lose, no matter how tough its Foreign Minister is trying to sound as part of a ploy to present France as the EU’s leader. Politico quoted French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot as saying that his […]
Public Safety In Mexico (I)
Amid the steady increase in global military spending over the past decade, which has surpassed $2.4 trillion according to SIPRI, Latin American countries stand out as a notable exception. Since the 1960s, the region has maintained its status as a nuclear-free zone, marked by a minimal number of armed conflicts […]
Will The Pentagon Begin A New ‘Containment’ Of China?
Despite the change of the White House administration and the corresponding reshuffles in the US State Department and the Department of Defense, it is obvious that Donald Trump will follow the trend of pressure on China in his foreign policy, including proven methods of military-strategic outreach. Although the strengthening of […]
Misinterpretations Of US Trends (I)
We see that Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House is upsetting the rules of the international game. However, we often misinterpret his actions: we ignore the habits and customs of his country, and we project our own political debates onto him. We are all the more at a loss […]
Mutual Interest In Resuming Arms Control Talks Can Speed Up The Ukrainian Peace Process
A new global arms race could follow the expiry of the New START in early 2026 if it’s not renewed or replaced. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin is ready to meet with Trump to discuss ending the Ukrainian Conflict and resuming arms control talks after the American leader told the Davos elite last week […]
Render Unto Caesar: Why Diversity Should Never Rule Over Qualifications – Especially If It Comes To The CIA
Reactionism towards the policies of its predecessors has become an obvious fact of American politics today. Doing everything in defiance is the basic principle of how the political pendulum in the United States functions. What was forbidden under Republicans is becoming the norm and fashion under Democrats, and vice versa. […]
Trump’s Inauguration: A Second Сhance For The American People (II)
Part I January 20th marked a new milestone not only in the history of the United States, but also of the entire world. In fact, this is a second chance for the entire American people, which cannot be ignored. Donald Trump is following the path of the greatest resistance, refusing […]
What Putin Misunderstands About Ideology
INTRODUCTION My main field of specialization, within meta-science (my major field), has always been ideology. It’s a field in which no university offers a Ph.D or other doctoral degree, but I have been studying it intensively on my own ever since the 1960s. The closest existing field to it is […]
Trump’s Gaza Proposal Takes A Page From Ralph Peters’ “Blood Borders”
He might have convinced himself that ethnically cleansing the Palestinians is the only way to decisively end the conflict, ensure Israel’s long-term security, and restore regional business opportunities like the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor. Ralph Peters is a former US Army analyst who became famous in the mid-2000s for his […]
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