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EU leaders may cheat Trump by walking back their pledge to ramp up defense spending - Shoigu

11:57 17.07.2025

EU leaders may cheat Trump by walking back their pledge to ramp up defense spending - Shoigu

In an interview with the newspaper Kommersant, Russia’s Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said that the authorities of European countries may deceive US President Donald Trump and fail to fulfill their obligations to increase defense spending. “It is no coincidence that the initial figures of the new defense budget will …

Trump’s second term and the principles of Jacksonism

14:10 06.01.2025 Alexander Ananyev

Trump’s second term and the principles of Jacksonism

American presidents have often declared their admiration for their predecessors. Barack Obama regularly mentioned Abraham Lincoln. Dwight Eisenhower revered George Washington. Andrew Jackson was well regarded by Franklin Roosevelt and his successor Harry Truman, who interpreted the Americans’ respect for Jackson as a need to expand the state apparatus, including …

Ukraine – Does the "Kellogg Plan" Exist?

10:15 07.12.2024 Denis Baturin

Ukraine – Does the "Kellogg Plan" Exist?

The "Kellogg Plan," proposed by retired General Keith Kellogg (photo), Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, must be assessed considering several factors: The plan was presented months before the combat testing of the "Oreshnik" medium-range missile system. Like Trump, president-elect, but not yet inaugurated, Kellogg has been appointed but lacks …

Berlin puzzle: speculating about Trump but looking to Harris

11:19 16.08.2024 Valeriya Belyaeva

Berlin puzzle: speculating about Trump but looking to Harris

The prospect of seeing Donald Trump as president yet again has long been causing serious worries among politicians in Germany. Neither the European Union as a whole, nor Germany proper expect anything good of such a prospect, which they have dubbed “a horrible scenario”. They do remember what a challenge …

Iran, JCPOA, Trump, Biden – history and prospects

11:43 05.02.2021 Vladimir Sazhin

Iran, JCPOA, Trump, Biden – history and prospects

On January 20, 2021 the newly elected US President Joseph Biden was sworn in as the 46thpresident of the United States. It looks like none of the previous 45 presidents had to deal with such a huge burden of problems inherited from the predecessor, both in domestic and foreign policies.On …

Ilya Kravchenko: attempt by the Democrats to destroy Trump’s political image is a time bomb

12:08 14.01.2021 Anna Yershova

Ilya Kravchenko: attempt by the Democrats to destroy Trump’s political image is a time bomb

The Democrats have officially submitted to the House of Representativesa resolutionon initiating the impeachment of the country’s present President Donald Trump on charges of inciting a revolt. According to the resolution, Trump deserves an inquiry, a removal from office, and should be stripped of the right to occupy an honorary, …

What awaits Ukraine after US presidential elections?

13:24 14.09.2020 Denis Baturin

What awaits Ukraine after US presidential elections?

Who is the man that Kiev wants in the White House - Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Joe Biden? For a country like Ukraine, so sensitive to external influences, this is an overarching issue.Joe Biden’s election in November would bring Ukraine into Washington’s sharper focus. However, important as this may …

Trump and Erdogan “mend fences” again

17:13 21.11.2019 Andrey Isayev

Trump and Erdogan “mend fences” again

Presidents of the United States and Turkey Donald Trump and Recep Erdogan met for bilateral talks in Washington on November 13th . In the course of what Donald Trump described as “lengthy and productive” negotiations and during a series of one-on-one and enlarged meetings, the Turkish leader announced his country’s …

US-Turkish partnership: “strategic” does not mean “reliable”

12:40 30.09.2019 Andrey Isayev

US-Turkish partnership: “strategic” does not mean “reliable”

The continuing tension in the Middle East has yet again become a discussion point during the so-called top-level week of the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York. What made the situation worse this year was Washington’s decision to strengthen its military presence in the region, which …

The Alternative World

11:25 08.08.2018 Alexander Borisov

The Alternative World

We publish an excerpt from Professor Borisov’s article “The New Global System, or the World Without A Hegemon”.In 1776, the oldest of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, who was presiding at the Philadelphia Congress, which adopted the historic Declaration of Independence, pointed out as he opened …

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