Trump’s behavior that is at the center of the impeachment inquiry was unpatriotic. It entailed the subordination of the U.S. national interest to the narrower interests of denigrating opposition political candidates and advancing one’s own political party. Sometimes an accusation that a mote is in someone else’s eye …
Read More »NATO No Longer Serves American Interests
Quite simply, it makes no sense for U.S. taxpayers to subsidize the defense of nations capable of defending themselves. Shared interests will continue to justify military cooperation. However, the alliance as today constituted no longer serves American interests. President Donald Trump returned early from the London NATO summit. …
Read More »The agreement between International World Group and National Ocean Technology Center
By Giancarlo Elia Valori International World Group (IWG), the new and already well- established company founded by Giancarlo Elia Valori has signed a very important Agreement with China’s National Ocean Technology Center (NOTC). This is the result of the great attention that President Xi Jinping and his Minister of …
Read More »Riots in Iran
Giancarlo Elia Valori Protests against the petrol price rise and rationing in Iran began on November 15 in Ahvaz, when the Iranian government announced the fuel price increase up to 300%. They quickly spread to major Iranian cities. Before the enactment of this new rule, car owners could …
Read More »Pompeo Goes Full Neocon
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pivots back from America First. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unleashed a litany of neoconservative talking points at a Monday afternoon press conference, marking a turn away from the Trump administration’s “America First” foreign policy. “We are recognizing the reality on the ground,” …
Read More »The geopolitical substance of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Giancarlo Elia Valori Currently the material break, rather than the real fall, of the Berlin Wall is at the core of many strategic and historical misrepresentations. The naive rhetoric of “global democracy” that broke into Potsdam for the will of the conscious people – just to use an …
Read More »Why Can’t Congress Pass a National Defense Authorization Act?
Lawmakers have been able to cast aside their differences and work out a defense authorization bill for fifty-eight straight years—a record that other federal agencies must look at with envy. Now we know how the attempt to reconcile House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act …
Read More »The Way Forward for Hong Kong
If Beijing plays its cards correctly, then it can face the world with more confidence, less bullying, and gain the respect and trust of other nations around the world that are increasingly doubtful about the wisdom of doing business with China. How can the Hong Kong protests end …
Read More »The changing shape of war and conflict strategies
Dr. Shehab Al Makahleh There can be no talk of new transformations at the level of the world order and the international policy structure without referring to tools of power and conflict. When a human civilisation reaches the climax and starts declining, this structure leads to chaos and …
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