The clandestine standoff between Belarusians and Lukashenka’s regime continues. To ensure regional and global security, the EU needs a coherent strategy in support of the Belarusian people. Belarus has always been on the margins of Europe, let alone of world politics. 2020 seems to have changed that. In response to …
Read More »Judy Asks: Is Germany Getting Serious About Security and Defense?
Germany’s National Security Strategy is a step in the right direction. But it lacks clear priorities, an institutional underpinning, and budgetary planning. Cornelius Adebahr – Nonresident fellow at Carnegie Europe Judging by the country’s first-ever security strategy unveiled last week, the answer must be a full-throated “yes, no, maybe, but …
Read More »What the Russian Crisis Means for Europe
European leaders must not only double down on Ukraine and Eastern Europe. They need to figure out how they are going to deal with Russia now and in the future. A day after Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin called off his march on Moscow, several EU member states’ foreign ministers …
Read More »Emergence Of The Yuan: China’s Economic Diplomacy In The Middle East – OpEd
In recent years, the Chinese Yuan Renminbi (RMB) has emerged as a popular form of exchange on the foreign currency markets in the Middle East. This arose as a direct result of the current global events that have shattered economies all across the world. The supremacy of the US dollar …
Read More »China’s Spy Base in Cuba?
On the heels of China’s weather/spy balloon downed by a US F-22 comes a report of the construction of a Chinese listening post in Cuba. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., supports the Biden administration’s claim that China is setting up a spy station in Cuba. Gaetz calls it a “stationary aircraft …
Read More »Sordid Urkanian war of private military companies and multi-national corporations
Private Military Companies, Soldiers of Fortune, Multi-National Investment Corporations and the enterprise of Mercenarism go hand-in-hand back to the time of antiquity’ when armies were predominantly comprised of foreign soldiers of fortune, private investors, multi-national business corporations and mercenary groups and individuals who were either primarily or solely concerned, not …
Read More »The rise and fall of a Russian oligarch
The Kremlin leadership has acted decisively to meet the threat of an armed insurrection by the Russian oligarch and self-styled ‘founder’ of Wagner Group of military contractors, Yevgeny Prigozhin. In a series of videos released on Friday, Prigozhin alleged that the Russian government’s justifications for military intervention in Ukraine were …
Read More »Biden’s Endless Gifts to China
The gifts the Biden Administration has already given the Chinese Communist Party in just two years have been nothing short of exorbitant — and often to the detriment of the US. The Biden Administration intends to spend more than half a trillion dollars on “clean energy and climate action over …
Read More »Putin seriously weakened by Wagner Group mutiny – but it was a missed opportunity for Ukraine too
Blink and you could have missed it. Within 36 hours, the challenge mounted against the Kremlin by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the mercenary private military company the Wagner Group, was over. On Friday June 23 2023, Prigozhin ordered 25,000 of his troops on to a “march for justice”, which …
Read More »Wagner’s rebellion may have been thwarted, but Putin has never looked weaker and more vulnerable
It is increasingly clear that a rattled Vladimir Putin’s political end is approaching. All that really matters now is whether it comes sooner or later. Having appeared on national television to warn of a coup attempt by traitors – and an impending civil war – Putin abruptly reversed his position …
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