... international position is defined by its crushing defeat in the Second World War, which ended any hope of determining its own future. Germany, like Japan and South Korea, is a country with a foreign occupying force on its territory, albeit under the NATO flag. The German elite, both political and economic, is, with few exceptions, even more integrated with the US than the British elite. To say nothing of those running France, Italy or other European countries.
Germany has no autonomy in determining its foreign policy, nor does it aspire to have any. It’s no coincidence that over the past two and a half years ...
... was never on the agenda.
As a result, NATO’s expansion, which in a sense became automated, pushed Russia further and further to the east. Moscow’s attempts to regulate this process – first through participation in joint institutions (such as the NATO-Russia Council of 2002, which was an expansion of the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997) and then through growing opposition (starting with Putin’s Munich Speech in 2007) – did not bring the desired results. In addition to the inertia of the West’s ...
... instability.
The Risk of Escalation
The danger of the Ukraine conflict escalating into a wider European conflict is a significant concern. Several factors contribute to this risk:
· Geopolitical Tensions: The conflict has heightened tensions between NATO and Russia, with both sides engaging in provocative military maneuvers and rhetoric. Any miscalculation or unintended incident could spark a broader conflict involving multiple European nations.
· Economic Pressures: As European economies suffer from energy ...
Major powers are at war again
Major powers are at war again. So far, it has been a proxy one, but waged on the territory of vital strategic importance to one actor, Russia, and in a key overseas area for the other, the United States of America. US NATO allies in Europe are also intimately involved. The implications of this conflict are vast and pose an existential threat to the world. Even if the escalation of the conflict does not lead to a strategic nuclear exchange, the consequences of the Ukraine ...
... their hand to carry on with the arbitrary practice of employing dirty tactics as a way to pressure competitors. During the so-called “wild 1990s” in Russia, we used to refer to such practices as laying down the law.
To the participants in the G7, NATO and US-EU summits, this series of high-level events signalled the return by the United States into European affairs and the restored consolidation of the Old World under the wing of the new administration in Washington. Most NATO and EU members met this U-turn ...
... American foreign policy resource is capable of scaling Polish politics up, bringing it to a level, which, under other circumstances, it could not have achieved.
A crisis in bilateral relations
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Mikhail Troitskiy:
Russia and NATO after the Warsaw Summit
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s new strategy introduced confusion into the American-Polish relations. In 2012, the concept of a Pacific rebalance was introduced as one of the key tenets of the US revised military ...
