Geopolitics

Adam Lammon President Joe Biden’s commitment to supplanting Russian energy production has provoked a flurry of recent diplomacy with several oil-producing nations, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Iran. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its thirteenth day on Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced that the United States …

Shahriar Sheikhlar One week after Putin’s troops launches attack on Ukraine, the west is cautiously whisper the sanctions against Russia, as the European countries, even who believes necessity of those sanctions, couldn’t suspend importing the energy fossil resources from Russia. Selecting coldest days of winter for attacking on …

Pascal Lottaz Yes, yes, and yes. Yes to Hall Gardner’s analysis of the necessity for a neutral solution to Ukraine. Yes to that of Klaus Larres, and yes to that of the many others, including Henry Kissinger, Steve Walt, Anatol Lieven, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and the many European …

Hanna Eid What we are seeing is the USA-NATO nexus reacting to the new reality of multipolarity in the world system by desperately attempting to control the flow of information. The instantaneity with which the entire western political spectrum was whipped into line during the ongoing conflict between …

Osama Trabolsi If we could undoubtedly answer these two questions, it would be much easier to understand what is going on around us with concern to Russia & Ukraine. A very real threat arises from these recent events and this new threat should concern the world: But first, …

Michael Hudson  The MIC, OGAM and FIRE Sectors Conquer NATO My old boss Herman Kahn, with whom I worked at the Hudson Institute in the 1970s, had a set speech that he would give at public meetings. He said that back in high school in Los Angeles, his …

Sam Mak In 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a speech to parliament that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the worst geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. A year earlier, seven countries had joined NATO: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. In 2009, …

Rainer Zitelmann The greatest “levelers” in history have been violent events such as wars, revolutions, state and systems collapses, and pandemics, but the greatest poverty reducer in history has been capitalism. The authors of the classical utopian novels were obsessed with the notion of equality. In almost every …

Amy Sherif A trend is now globally solidifying, whereby many countries are set on a strategic approach to becoming more self-reliant in development, production and support of military assets. These capabilities were usually exclusively provided by advanced industrial capabilities such as the United States, Russia, France, United Kingdom …