... insufficiently loyal partners.
It is unacceptable when the debt burden of developing countries (or rather, their ability to get out of the debt trap they were forced into over decades) is at the “mercy” of the central banks of the United States and Europe.
As for the existing constraints for the use of the national currencies, I am convinced that if there is a will, there is a way. A significant part of issues are related, again, to the long-standing imbalances rooted in the dominance of dollar ...
Europe is finished, and Russia’s geographical and cultural advantages means it doesn’t have to go down with the sinking ship
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Professor Sergey Karaganov,
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norary chairman of Russia’s Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and academic supervisor ...
The elites of Western Europe – and especially in Germany – are in a state of historical failure
In terms of being a global centre of power, the Old World is finished. Moscow understands this, but our former partners remain in denial.
Not long ago, German Defense Minister ...
Whether many of us in Russia are ready to admit it or not, the position of Europe in international politics will inevitably become an important issue of theoretical and practical significance
Whether many of us in Russia are ready to admit it or not, the position of Europe in international politics will inevitably become an ...
Within a short period of time, the situation in the Baltic Sea region has changed radically
Within a short period of time, the situation in the Baltic Sea region has changed radically, writes Konstantin Khudoley, head of the Department of European Studies at the Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University.
During the Cold War, the Baltic Sea had a low level of confrontation, and after it ended, the region was clearly dominated by trends towards the development ...
... influence on the fate of humanity or even their own is rapidly declining.
The victims of general revisionism are the powers that built a strategy based on static methods to ensure their interests. Now these are, first of all, the countries of continental Europe, grouped within the European Union, and most of the states of Southeast Asia, united within the ASEAN community. It is difficult to say who will benefit most. It is very likely that the current generation of active observers of world politics will ...
... Nagorno Karabakh war it became obvious that existing political, social, economic and geopolitical disposition keeps pre-existed status-quo: Russia in, the West out, Armenia and Azerbaijan on the brink of yet another military confrontation.
Source: Reuters
The Reaction
Taking this into consideration it is highly interesting how another South Caucasian state, Georgia, reacted on the processes? Analyzing an overall reaction of Georgian political establishment as well as a local academia, professor ...
... especially the principles of the United Nations Charter. There is one that the US and other Western countries never mention, namely, the principle which says the United Nations is based on the sovereign equality of states. Never ever when the Americans and Europeans invoke, for one or another reason, for one or another purpose, a UN Charter principle to justify some of their action or inaction, they invoke various. In one case, territorial integrity, in another case, the right of people to self-determination ...
... imbalance if not for the mass impoverishment caused by runaway Wall Street greed. Just when did the production of durable products become a socioeconomic problem?
We see this sinister logic being repeated nearly a century later under different pretexts. The European Union and Britain, for example, have pledged to ban new diesel and petrol cars from 2035. This climate-linked policy has also resulted in a senseless campaign against livestock and vegetation.
Bernard London’s solutions also appear to foreshadow ...
I introspect what, if anything, would big powers and small countries expect of each other in this uncertain era – and how alignment would look like. In particular, I am interested in Eastern Europe, which historically played a geo-political buffer role.
Source: Le Figaro
Avons nous besoin des Russes ?... ”We do not need anybody !“, hands down the verdict the eisen-stimme of elite exceptionazism [01, 02, 03] - so much so that they cannot ...
