Eurasia Press & News
Navy SEALs and Green Berets operated alongside their Greek counterparts this week in Athens, where watercraft recently donated by the U.S. to an elite Greek unit were on display. “I have been so impressed to see not only the growth in the U.S. – Greece Special Forces partnership but also …
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November, 2021
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28 November
Poland calls on NATO to send more forces amid concerns about Russia
Poland has urged NATO to send reinforcements east over concerns about Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine, which is expected to be the focus of high-level alliance talks in Latvia next week that will include U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. President Andrzej Duda said Thursday at NATO headquarters in Brussels …
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27 November
PLI Scheme: New Challenge To Make In India, But Few Takers; Lesson From Vietnam Warranted – Analysis
Make in India lost steam. Prime Minister Narendra Modi escaped success stories from the rampart of Red Fort in Independence Speech in 2019. Several attempts were made to rejuvenate Make in India , invoking major reforms like reduction in corporate taxes, land reforms at state level and downsizing cumbersome procedures …
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27 November
Central Asian Elites Choose China Over Russia – Analysis
Since 2019, more than 40 protests were held against ‘Chinese expansion’ in Central Asia. Yet Central Asian elites have hardly had a bad word to say. On the contrary, they suppressed these protests, denied that China’s goal was expansion and even requested their publics be grateful to China. No wonder …
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27 November
The US Debt Limit In 2021 – Analysis
Debt limit episodes have been a recurrent federal fiscal feature in the past two decades. Since 2002, the debt limit has been modified 19 times. In August 2019, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 (BBA 2019; P.L. 116-37) suspended the debt limit through July 31, 2021. The limit was reset …
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27 November
Iran And The US: A New Deal? – Analysis
In Europe and the US, there used to be a tradition of pragmatic and often harshly realist statecraft. It went back at least as far as the 5th century B.C. Greek historian Thucydides, whose influential history of the war between Athens and Sparta was essentially an account of the coercive …
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27 November
Germany Enters The Post-Merkel Era – Analysis
The post-Merkel era is set to kick off in Germany, as the ‘traffic light coalition’ of Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Greens, and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) have agreed to form a new government headed by the SDP’s Olaf Scholz. Success was anything but assured given the wide variance …
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27 November
Battle Of Legacies In China As Xi Consolidates Position – Analysis
China has one of the most hide-bound rituals for its political events that overawe its audience with pageantry, but with a definite intention of such proceedings. The November plenary session, in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) elite gathered, in the run-up to the 2022 National Congress was no different. …
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27 November
Iran: FM Amirabdollahian Calls For Assurances Against US Withdrawal From Possible Deal
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell that there must be a serious and sufficient guarantee that the United States will not leave JCPOA again. Amirabdollahian told Borrell in a phone conversation on Friday that a good and even quick agreement was possible if other …
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27 November
Arab Coalition Carries Out Airstrikes On Locations In Yemeni Capital
Operational objectives of airstrikes on locations in Yemen’s capital had been achieved, the Arab coalition said early Saturday. Recently, the coalition has been striking Houthi militia assets in the city in an effort to degrade the Iran-backed group’s capabilities to launch attacks toward Saudi Arabia. The coalition said they had …
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