The Hybrid War on Bolivia: The Indirect Adaptive Approach to Regime Change

The Hybrid War on Bolivia: The Indirect Adaptive Approach to Regime Change

The socialist state of Bolivia is the latest target of the US’ regime change efforts after a preplanned Hybrid War was launched against its leadership following President Morales’ razor-thin victory in the first round of elections last month, with the situation having rapidly deteriorated in the several weeks since then to the point where a…

Bolivia’s Boiling With Color Revolution Unrest

Bolivia’s Boiling With Color Revolution Unrest

The narrow re-election of long-serving Bolivian President Evo Morales earlier this month during the first round of voting has been exploited by his internal and external foes alike as the trigger event for inciting preplanned Color Revolution unrest in this lithium-rich landlocked socialist state. *** Bolivia’s boiling with Color Revolution unrest after the narrow re-election…

Russia’s Bolivia Gambit Is a Bold Economic Move

Russia’s Bolivia Gambit Is a Bold Economic Move

Bolivian President Evo Morales visited Moscow last week and announced that his country is interested in stepping up lithium cooperation with Russia, which if successful and taken to its fullest extent could see the Eurasian Great Power leverage its global strategic competitiveness in the resource extraction industry to become an indispensable component of the high-tech…

Trump’s Trying to Take Down the “Troika of Tyranny”

Trump’s Trying to Take Down the “Troika of Tyranny”

Bolton’s description of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua as a “Troika of Tyranny” a few months ago was a declaration of Hybrid War against the last three geopolitically relevant multipolar countries in the hemisphere, and now Trump’s tasked himself with taking down these states by the end of 2019 in order to facilitate the construction of…

Union of South American Nations (Unasur) is Unravelling and It’s All the US’ Fault

Union of South American Nations (Unasur) is Unravelling and It’s All the US’ Fault

Half of Unasur’s members suspended their participation in the South American bloc. The American-friendly governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, and Peru coordinated their move just days after Bolivia assumed the rotating presidency of the organization, justifying their decision on the alleged basis that the landlocked country hasn’t provided any real sense of leadership…

Bolivia vs. Chile: The Regional Consequences of Liberalism vs. Realism

Bolivia vs. Chile: The Regional Consequences of Liberalism vs. Realism

Bolivia’s efforts to reverse the geopolitical results of the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific with Chile are couched in the liberal naiveté that moral arguments in and of themselves can bring about tangible change in the contemporary Neo-Realist international system. Chile’s conquest of Bolivia’s Pacific coastline following the now-landlocked state’s utter defeat in the 1879-1883…