Iran potentially could emerge as an unintended winner in the escalating crisis over Ukraine. That is, if Russian troops cross the Ukrainian border and talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement fail. An imposition of tough US and European sanctions in response to any Russian incursion in …
Read More »Iran and Eurasian Economic Union Negotiations: Upgrading EAEU-Iran Preferential Trade Agreement into a Free Trade Agreement
The EAEU-Iran preferential trade agreement (PTA) implemented on October 27, 2019, offers lower tariffs on 862 commodity types, of which 502 are Iranian exports to the Eurasian Economic Union. This agreement significantly increased the trade volume between Iran and the member countries of the Union. In the period between October …
Read More »Пустые мечтания Запада. Ему нужна Россия против Китая
Чем ближе визит Путина в Пекин, тем выше градус алармистского абсурда, производимого англосаксами. Причем все соотнесено с украинской темой: ее раскрутили уже до такого уровня, что абсолютно все подается в привязке к ней. Даже такая важнейшая для Запада тема, как российско-китайские отношения. Их тоже пытаются атаковать с украинского ракурса. Получается, …
Read More »Bogusław Chrabota: Dziwna cisza w sprawie Ukrainy
Wojna na Wschodzie może wybuchnąć każdego dnia. Codziennie budzimy się z nerwowym pytaniem: czy na Ukrainie już się zaczęło? Groza wojny wisi w powietrzu. Mimo że Rosjanie na różnych forach zapewniają, że nie mają agresywnych planów wobec Kijowa, Zachód, w tym my Polacy, świetnie wie, że ponad 100 tys. wojska …
Read More »How the US and NATO Could Settle Dispute Over Ukraine Without War
We have been bombarded by news reports and announcements from President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent. On January 18, as he prepared to leave for Kyiv, Berlin and Geneva, Secretary of State Blinken, said “We’re now at a stage …
Read More »Lost Innocents
The U.S. Military’s Shameful Failure to Protect Civilians Eight years ago, it looked like the U.S. military was making progress in reducing the harm its operations caused to civilians. The counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan meant winning the hearts and minds of the population. Lessons from the Vietnam War about the …
Read More »Goodness Gracious, David Ignatius: Why Do You Want More War?
No one in the mainstream media takes better dictation than David Ignatius, the leading columnist at the Washington Post on international security. Ignatius gets briefings from the Central Intelligence Agency and immediately prepares a column echoing the CIA’s case for aiding a Ukrainian insurgency in response to any Russian invasion. …
Read More »Dangerous Heat Across the Globe
The planet is heating up like never before, as “ground temperatures” hit all-time records in the Northern Hemisphere as well as the Southern Hemisphere, and ocean temperatures threaten the world’s major fisheries of the Far North, which are imperiled beyond any known historical precedent. (See- The Oceans Are Overheating, January …
Read More »Boris Johnson’s Populism May be Muted, But it is Still Accelerating Britain’s Decline
Defenders of Boris Johnson are telling mutinous Tory MPs not to focus solely on the dolce vita lifestyle enjoyed in No 10 when the rest of the population was locked up at home. Instead, they ask those who want rid of the Prime Minister to view his achievements more generally, …
Read More »NATO as Religion
The US/NATO/Ukraine/Russia controversy is not entirely new. We already saw the potential of serious trouble in 2014 when the US and European states interfered in the internal affairs of Ukraine and covertly/overtly colluded in the coup d’état against the democratically elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, because he was not …
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