The Korean War armistice of July 1953 ended hostilities, but was not a final peace treaty. However, widespread tensions in North Korea-US relations have persisted for decades. Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un three times: in Singapore in 2018, in Hanoi in 2019, and in the demilitarized zone where North and South Korea meet in 2019. But they ultimate...
Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine has been successfully going on since February 2022. The military operation has busted many strategic myths once held by the West, particularly the United States (US). For instance, Ukraine has realized that despite the Western assurances, the West has betrayed Ukraine and Kyiv’s aspirations of joining the North ...
Despite China’s rise to power and the clear economic rebalancing in favour of the BRICS and the Global South, Washington persists in tolerating only one alternative: either China, the leader of this emerging world, renounces its technological and military sovereignty, or it heads toward a hybrid conflict with the United States. Similarly, China’s economic an...
The issue of maintaining control in the Indian Ocean area, as well as the territories of the island and bordering coastal states located there - which together form the geopolitical category known as the “Indian Ocean Region” (IOR) - has always become especially acute during periods of increased global turbulence. This was the case, for instance, during Worl...
It is not easy to follow the rapid evolution of the “tariff war” declared by the 47th President of the United States against almost the entire world, and especially against countries that were recently its closest allies. And, in general, the moral cost of the method chosen by the new US president to force negotiations on the accumulated problems in trade re...
Basically, all of the mainstream media, and most of the alternative media, and even the conspiracy media, is getting the whole tariff war story completely wrong, and doing so intentionally. There is nothing stupid about what the Trump administration is doing and the tariff wars are not the result of the miscalculations of Peter Navarro or Scott Bessent. The ...
From day one, we humans have reacted to the extraordinary with awe and dread. Unprecedented phenomena evoke acute anxiety – even when not immediately threatening – because they are inexplicable. They sow fear because their nature, and whatever mysterious realm they emerge from, are beyond our comprehension. Thus, the compulsion to fit them into some ordered ...
The denazification of Ukraine is one of the explicitly stated goals of Russia’s special operation, but it’s probably the vaguest of them all, perhaps even intentionally so in order to give the Kremlin flexibility. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov just elaborated on it in detail though over the weekend during a Q&A session at this year’s Antalya Diplomacy Forum...
Historically, Afghanistan has played a significant role in shaping regional strategic and security dynamics. The Russian Empire and British India declared it a buffer zone to prevent a military conflict. However, the culmination of the Cold War reshaped the dynamics of South, West, and Central Asian regions. The United States invasion of Afghanistan under th...
While de Gaulle was ousted by Roosevelt during the structuring of the power triangle between the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom at Yalta in 1945, Macron finds himself sidelined by Trump from the Riyadh negotiations, which redefine the new power triangle between the United States, Russia and probably China in 2025. From Yalta in 1945 t...
The conflict, which erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has become one of the largest humanitarian crises of modern times. The war has not only claimed thousands of lives but has also devastated the country’s economy, infrastructure, and healthcare system. Millions have been displaced, and entire ...
To bar Marine Le Pen from running for the French presidency, a court of first instance convicted her of “misappropriation of public funds,” not the other way around. It wasn’t the offense she was charged with that led to her being stripped of her right to be eligible, but it was invented to justify this sentence. Strangely, no one in the political class saw ...
International relations among states are undergoing a rapid and unprecedented shift due to the astonishing policies of the contemporary US administration. The United States has swiftly altered its foreign policy outlook toward its conventional allies since the re-election of Donald Trump as the U.S. president. In a surprising move, President Trump admonished...
Last year was one of the most intense in recent memory. The Deep State was determined to prevent Trump’s return to the Oval Office and it used virtually any means at its disposal, including his physical removal after media smear campaigns and the so-called lawfare failed. The second half of 2024 saw several assassination attempts and similar security inciden...
By freeing itself from the shackles of French neocolonialism, Africa rises as a beacon of sovereignty and prosperity, while France, in decline, desperately clings to a toxic past. Since the Berlin Conference on the partition of Africa by European powers, France has perpetually challenged Africans to enjoy an ounce of respite. Today, under Macron’s presidency...
The foreign ministers of the Alliance of Sahel States (Alliance-Confédération des États du Sahel, AES) are currently in Moscow for a two-day visit [April 3-4, 2005-ed] at the invitation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. According to the Malian portal Maliweb, this meeting is part of a broader ambition shared by the heads of state of both the AES and...
U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Affairs Steven Whitcoff, who previously advocated for a policy of “maximum pressure” on Tehran, now speaks of the need for “confidence-building” and “resolving disagreements.” This sharp turn in foreign policy strategy raises many questions: What exactly prompted Washington to change its approach? What factors influenced th...
The announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump on March 2, 2025, to impose tariffs on virtually all imported goods marks a historic shift in global trade dynamics. This decision disrupts decades of multilateral cooperation under institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO) and threatens to push the world economy into a new era of economic...
The current situation, with the rapprochement between the United States and Russia, is shaking up the global political landscape. As a result, all intergovernmental institutions are being disrupted. It appears that some of them were pursuing an unofficial objective, which no one was quick to state publicly, but which has not withstood the test of time. Other...
The big news, of course, is Trump’s tariffs. Given the time constraints in trying to keep up with all the news of late, I’ll try to be concise. But there are still some fundamentals that must be discussed. Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first secretary of the treasury by President George Washington on September 11, 1789. Both Washington and Hamilton kn...
“This is essentially a U.S. base. Trump wants to reduce military costs, and this is a large military base, expensive to maintain,” said Chossudovsky, author of numerous books, including The U.S. and NATO Aggression Against Yugoslavia and The Globalization of Poverty, which have been translated into...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) completed six months in office in March. During the month the first-ever Budget 2025 of the National People's Power (NPP) government, was passed in Parliament by a thumping 159 votes in favour with 45 against it. President AKD in his speech said “We have come to know of some things only now. When I become president, I...
US President Donald Trump announced “reciprocal tariff” on countries that he described as being unfair to the US. In fact, the tariffs were announced on April 2, 2025, or “Liberation Day” for the US. Economists and Wall Street pundits have been quick to point out that these measures are a disaster for the US as well as the global economy. There is panic in ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed that preparations are underway for Putin’s reciprocal trip to Delhi after Modi visited Moscow last summer as the first foreign trip of his third term. Readers can review the outcome of their most recent summit here, while the present piece will forecast what they might discuss during their next one, the date ...
The Greeks are getting “the business” that their lords and masters in Germany are sounding the alarm, contending that Vladimir Putin is intent on conquering Europe. This excerpt from Greece’s Protothema (and other media) gives us an example of what the Greek people are being led to believe. “Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the Armed Forces ...
Amplified by South Africa’s strategic position within the BRICS, its rapprochement with China and Russia, as well as the adoption in 2024 of Law 13, which allows indigenous communities to own and manage land, Rasool’s expulsion is part of a rise in tensions between Washington and Pretoria. This extreme diplomatic gesture reflects the American desire to conta...
The official Kremlin readout from Putin’s most recent phone call with Trump shared Putin’s demand that “a complete cessation of providing Kiev with foreign military aid and intelligence must become the key condition for preventing an escalation of the conflict and making progress towards its resolution.” Trump’s temporary suspension of such assistance proves...