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A former US Ambassador to NATO: “Where's the problem here? It must be the West. It's not Russia”

11:34 04.05.2023

A former US Ambassador to NATO: “Where's the problem here? It must be the West. It's not Russia”

As tensions between Russia and NATO continue to escalate, Ian Bremmer and former US Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder discuss on GZERO World the perspective of non-Western countries, which are walking a complicated geopolitical tightrope between the two sides. Nations like India, Brazil and South Africa have a strong diplomatic …

The Brookings institute poll: Americans show signs of impatience with Ukraine war

11:33 04.05.2023

The Brookings institute poll: Americans show signs of impatience with Ukraine war

The Brookings institute has published the results of a new public opinion poll regarding the events in Ukraine. They say: In February 2022, we began tracking American public attitudes toward the war. In four polls conducted between March 2022 and October 2022, our University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll found …

Throw Carpathian ‘gray zone’ narcotics are flooding Europe

11:32 04.05.2023

Throw Carpathian ‘gray zone’ narcotics are flooding Europe

The conflict in Ukraine has led to criminal lawlessness in Eastern Europe, writes French ‘Atlantico’. Weapons are flowing from the zone of hostilities, and often refugees are involved in the illegal circulation. This "grey zone" is extremely dangerous for the region. At the end of September 2022, in an Atlantico …

3 nuclear Superpowers, rather than 2, usher in a New Strategic Era

11:32 04.05.2023

3 nuclear Superpowers, rather than 2, usher in a New Strategic Era

China is on track to massively expand its nuclear arsenal, just as Russia suspends the last major arms control treaty. It augurs a new world in which Beijing, Moscow and Washington will likely be atomic peers, writes ‘The New York Times’. On the Chinese coast, just 135 miles from Taiwan, …

Overall EU backing now stands at 39% in Hungary

11:32 03.05.2023

Overall EU backing now stands at 39% in Hungary

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban likes to blame the EU for everything and concern is growing over a sharp drop in public support for the bloc, notes Bloomberg. Placards at Budapest tram stops show a portion of pizza next to the slogan “Why would we be satisfied with less?” (photo). …

French Polynesia elects pro-independence party

11:31 03.05.2023

French Polynesia elects pro-independence party

French Polynesia has elected a pro-independence party, giving fresh impetus to long-standing calls for a referendum in France’s sprawling overseas territory in the South Pacific. The Tavini Huiraatira party, led by former president Oscar Temaru, won an absolute majority in the Assembly of French Polynesia, taking 38 of the 57 …

A third scenario: The end of American Empire

11:31 03.05.2023

A third scenario: The end of American Empire

Many are those who predict a World War. Indeed, some groups are preparing for it. But the USA is reasonable and, in fact, consider rather an amicable separation, a division of the world into two different worlds, one unipolar and the other multipolar. Perhaps we are actually witnessing a third …

RAND Corp. about US geopolitical feeling: A little nervous, a little bit afraid

11:24 02.05.2023

RAND Corp. about US geopolitical feeling: A little nervous, a little bit afraid

RAND Corp. published a new research “Great-Power Competition and Conflict in the 21st Century Outside the Indo-Pacific and Europe”. Some main points presented on the Corp. site: “Under what conditions could the United States expect to become involved in a secondary-theater conflict in which China, Russia, or both are also …

Depolarization as it is: Let’s call the hypothetical currency the ‘bric’

11:24 02.05.2023

Depolarization as it is: Let’s call the hypothetical currency the ‘bric’

Argentina will start to pay for Chinese imports in yuan rather than dollars, the government announced a measure that aims to relieve the country's dwindling dollar reserves, Reuters reports. In April, it aims to pay around $1 billion of Chinese imports in yuan instead of dollars and thereafter around $790 …

Why does Saudi Arabia need to improve ties with Iran?

11:20 02.05.2023

Why does Saudi Arabia need to improve ties with Iran?

What convinced the Saudis to reverse their unfriendly, if not hostile, stance towards Iran and opt for diplomacy and dialogue? Following the Iran-Saudi Arabia meeting in China and their agreement to restore diplomatic relations after seven years, the region faces a fresh challenge to reset the shady past and open …

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