Last summer, the Group of 7 (G7), a self-anointed forum of nations that view themselves as the most influential economies in the world, gathered at Schloss Elmau, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, to hold their annual meeting. Their focus was punishing Russia through additional sanctions, further arming of Ukraine and the containment of China. At the same…
Abruptly calling the entire trip off after months of planning and having already agreed to so much of importance beforehand just because of one person’s “sickness” suggests that something else is at play behind the scenes. It appears as though Lula realized that the optics of him meeting with his Chinese counterpart – even if…
The headquarters of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) in Moscow, linked to the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) is arguably one of the most crucial nodes of the emerging multipolar world. That’s where I was received by Minister of Integration and Macroeconomics Sergey Glazyev – who was previously interviewed in detail by The Cradle – for…
The second Hybrid War on Brazil is actually the result of an undeclared intra-PT power struggle that was initiated by supporters of the “New Lula” against the party’s base of supporters who still think he’s the “Old Lula”, the outcome of which will determine Brazil’s trajectory in the New Cold War. It’ll either continue moving…
There is far more to the current multi-modal geopolitical war than just what’s happening in Ukraine. This conflict has led to a myriad of downstream effects and moves which are just as important as what the encirclement of Bakhmut means. For years the wildcard in the BRICS Alliance has been India. India’s rivalry with China…
The Kremlin’s polar opposite reactions to these two documents, the Lula-endorsed UNGA Resolution that Moscow harshly condemned and President Xi’s peace plan that it enthusiastically supported, enable observers to better extrapolate each of those two BRICS countries’ geostrategic intentions. Lula has arguably recalibrated his worldview to more closely align with the US’, notwithstanding the latter’s…
