Tag Archives: geopolitical

Moscow is locked in a geopolitical struggle against Washington and the crisis in Ukraine is at the forefront, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. The diplomat added that Western nations are not keen for hostilities to end.  Lavrov made the remarks during a wide-ranging interview with Russian state media on …

Moscow expects increased economic cooperation with China as the West becomes more dictatorial, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. Russia intends to build relations with independent countries and will decide how to deal with the West if and when it comes to its senses, he added. “Now that …

Francis Fukuyama is best known for having mistakenly announced the coming of a global liberal quasi-utopia, billed as “the end of history,” a third of a century ago. Now, though, the American scholar has identified the linchpin of what he sees as a worldwide battle between secular good and evil. …

There are a lot of geopolitical issues at stake. China and Russia have both long-term interests in this Horn of Africa country which is a gateway from the Red Sea to the wider African continent. Sudan has been a key node in China’s ambitious global economic plans, while Russia is …

This is a story of geopolitically driven military procurement gone mad. Australia is an island nation whose very survival is dependent upon its ability to access strategic sea lines of communication (SLOCs) so that critical commerce links can operate on a sustained basis. In short, if any nation or group …

The West African nation of Guinea has just experienced a military coup. Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, with an elite segment of troops, has overthrown the government of Alpha Conde and seized power, a move that has been condemned by the African Union and China, with the latter demanding that the president …

Top-level foreign visits are rare in Washington these days. US President Joe Biden has so far met with only two foreign leaders – both of them from Northeast Asia.  In April, he hosted Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. In May, he greeted his South Korean counterpart, Moon Jae-in. The choice …

“We have this narrative of supposedly European values, whatever they are, that we’re supposed to bring them to the rest of the world and that Russia isn’t playing ball with that, which is obviously nonsense,” Daly told RT on Wednesday.  Daly made waves on the floor of the European Parliament …

“We have this narrative of supposedly European values, whatever they are, that we’re supposed to bring them to the rest of the world and that Russia isn’t playing ball with that, which is obviously nonsense,” Daly told RT on Wednesday.  Daly made waves on the floor of the European Parliament …

German historian Stefan Linstedt published in the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung an essay on the situation in Central and Eastern Europe after the First world war, focusing on the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920-ies in General, and the Warsaw battle of 1920 in particular. Now in Poland, prepared a solemn and …