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View from Delhi: A rapidly changing international landscape has stabilized India China ties

11:33 18.12.2024

View from Delhi: A rapidly changing international landscape has stabilized India China ties

What can we say about the present era? The present era is historically unprecedented because we are not merely witnessing a material power transition or a change in the balance of power but also a shift from a western civilization-dominated ideological system to a multi-civilizational plural ideologies based international system, …

View from London: Democracy's been cancelled in Romania – and the Free West

11:31 18.12.2024

View from London: Democracy's been cancelled in Romania – and the Free West

Democracy's been cancelled in Romania – and the Free West is as silent as the graveIt was about this time of year, 35 years ago, when I set off eastwards from Berlin, full of fear. I was seeking to get into Romania, then an iron Communist tyranny. I finally made …

Trudeau considering quitting after Canadian Finmin Freeland unexpectedly resigns

11:28 18.12.2024

Trudeau considering quitting after Canadian Finmin Freeland unexpectedly resigns

Canada's CTV News reports that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is considering interrupting Parliament (prorogation) or resignation according to unnamed sources. The sources say he has spoken to his cabinet and plans to address Parliament. This comes after finance minister Chrystia Freeland resigned earlier on Monday citing disagreements over how to …

Georgia lawmakers elect Western critic as new President

12:39 17.12.2024

Georgia lawmakers elect Western critic as new President

Georgian lawmakers elected Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, as president on Saturday, setting him up to replace a pro-Western incumbent amid major protests against the government over a halt to the country’s European Union accession talks last month, Reuters reports. Kavelashvili, a former professional soccer player, has …

‘The Hill’: Little reason for the West to exult over Assad’s downfall

12:39 17.12.2024

‘The Hill’: Little reason for the West to exult over Assad’s downfall

With the dramatic fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s autocratic regime, the West may have achieved its objective in Syria. But the success could impose enduring costs on Western, and especially European, security, writes ‘The Hill’. Assad’s secular regime has been replaced by violent jihadist forces that Western governments regard …

Keir Starmer is the worst prime minister in modern British history

12:37 17.12.2024

Keir Starmer is the worst prime minister in modern British history

Voters believe Sir Keir Starmer is the worst prime minister in modern history after five months in the job, a damning poll for the ‘Daily Mail’ has found. A whopping six in ten (61 per cent) people said they were 'dissatisfied' with the PM's track record — including more than …

Macron picks François Bayrou as prime minister to navigate France’s crisis

12:36 17.12.2024

Macron picks François Bayrou as prime minister to navigate France’s crisis

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday tapped François Bayrou to serve as France’s fourth prime minister this year, tasking the longtime centrist to help steer the country out of a political and budgetary quagmire with no clear solution in sight, writes POLITICO. Bayrou, one of Macron’s earliest supporters, was long …

Vladimir Putin at expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board: “Our task is to ensure the security of the Russian nation, our people, and the future of Russia”

20:19 16.12.2024

Vladimir Putin at expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board: “Our task is to ensure the security of the Russian nation, our people, and the future of Russia”

The President Vladimir Putin took part in an expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board at the National Defence Control Centre of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Putin: “Comrades, Today, at an expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board, we will discuss the main results of our work in 2024 and …

View from Washington: The U.S., Russia, and China, are “The New Power Axis”

11:21 16.12.2024

View from Washington: The U.S., Russia, and China, are “The New Power Axis”

It’s not easy to listen to Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov. It’s not easy, because Lavrov has such poised, stable understanding of politics and international law. And he expressed this, not in his native Russian, but in English, writes at ‘American Thinker’ Matthew G. Andersson, …

View from USA: “McCarthyism, European style”

11:18 16.12.2024

View from USA: “McCarthyism, European style”

The dominant voices advocating for Ukraine’s victory and Russia’s defeat, both defined in maximalist and increasingly unattainable terms, are intent on snuffing out more thoughtful and nuanced perspectives, thus depriving the public of a democratic debate on the existential questions of war and peace. The situation is particularly alarming in …

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