Alexander Gale  During a press conference in July, the European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen spoke of the need for the EU to ‘diversify away from Russia and turn towards more reliable, trustworthy partners’.  She cited ‘Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine’ as a reason to move away …

Louis Beres Matters of “Belief”: Aggression, Genocide and Genocide-Like Crimes Ukraine is only the latest manifestation of an age-old connection.  More precisely, this Russian-generated spasm of mass murder represents just a tangible reflection of underlying human emotions.[1] In essence, until scholars and policy makers can recognize the root …

Just a few hours after the attack by sea “drones” on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in the early morning of October 29, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the suspension of the “grain deal” – an agreement that had been in force …

For months, Russian President Vladimir Putin has waited and watched, hoping for a fracturing of the remarkable Washington consensus built by President Joe Biden on the need to do everything it takes to defend democracy in Ukraine. Now the first cracks may be appearing, – supposes Stephen Collinson, …

Paul Wang There is no question that over the past decade, the United States has driven the India-Pacific strategy, e.g. the Quad and AUKUS, to contain the peaceful rise of China. In addition, Washington has made all efforts to persuade the countries in the region to support its …

For the first time, Iran is fighting a major war on the European continent. Iranian military advisors, most likely members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, are on the ground in Ukraine — and possibly Belarus — helping Russia operate Iranian suicide drones targeting Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure. …

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the Valdai International Discussion Club meeting on October 27th, gave a speech that described his ideology, and he took questions from the audience and answered further regarding a number of highly important issues. Everything that he said there is consistent with what …

Britain’s politico-economic fiasco of the past six weeks culminated in a tragicomic anticlimax. The 45-day Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned, as many had predicted before she even took high office last month. Rishi Sunak, the incumbent Prime Minister (Britain’s third in two months), had vociferously criticized Truss’ flamboyant …

The shrinking value of the currencies of most developing economies is driving up food and fuel prices in ways that could deepen the food and energy crises that many of them already face, according to the World Bank’s latest Commodity Markets Outlook report. In U.S. dollar terms, the …