Tag: EU

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The Fuel That Moves Everything

Last week’s US inflation report offered some encouraging news. Core price momentum appeared to be easing as of August, and households under cost-of-living strain could be forgiven for hoping the worst had passed. Commodity analysts are urging caution. The record run-up in diesel prices in the United States and Europe […]

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The Russian-US Diesel Deal Advances Trump 2.0’s “Strategy Of Denial” Against China

Since China declined to radically accelerate multipolarity by defying the US’ sanctions against Russia and cutting Ukraine off from drone-related sales, it’s poetic justice for Russia to radically exacerbate the US’ pressure campaign against China through a resource-centric rapprochement with the US that will derail China’s superpower trajectory. Trump announced […]

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Ukraine’s Carpathian Eight Platform Will Optimize The ‘Cordon Sanitaire’s’ Military Logistics

The containment noose around Russia’s western and southern flanks might eventually tighten. Zelensky launched the Carpathian Eight (C8, also the Carpathian Integration Initiative) during a summit in late September. This platform was supposed to include Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Serbia, Romania, and Hungary, but the latter’s leader later denied that […]

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Serbia’s Balancing Game: Between Moscow And Brussels

The European Commission for the sixth time since December 2021 issued a recommendation to open negotiating Cluster 3 for Serbia, covering competitiveness, inclusive growth, and access to the EU single market. In its information note of July 3, the Commission stated that Serbia had met key requirements: it repealed controversial […]

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Lukashenko’s Trilateral Belarusian-Russian-US Fertilizer Plant Proposal Is A Genius Move

It could set into motion a fast-moving sequence of events that meaningfully de-escalates New Cold War tensions provided that Trump agrees to participate in this project as expected. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko just announced that “Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] and I agreed that Gazprom will join us in implementing the project […]