Americans use the slang “lockstep” recalling a characteristic trait of their prisons of the 19th century when inmates had to shuffle step due to the chain that linked their legs. But the US President Joe Biden used that powerful evocative metaphor to convey on Monday that his country and Germany are aligned on fighting any…
While new Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov confirmed that Russia isn’t presently mediating between its top two strategic partners of equal importance because it hadn’t been requested by them to do so, it certainly seems as though President Putin is encouraging China and India through his personal diplomacy with their leaders not to lose…
As Europe teeters on the brink of war over Ukraine, the administration of President Joe Biden finds itself entangled in a policy nightmare for which there are no ready solutions. Just a short time ago, the administration of Joe Biden was confronted with a regional national security problem – the crisis with Russia over Ukraine…
Without deeper understanding of Chinese and Russian civilizations, and their way of thinking, Westerners simply are not equipped to get it, Pepe Escobar believes. Emmanuel Macron is no Talleyrand. Self-promoted as “Jupiterian”, he may have finally got down to earth for a proper realpolitik insight while ruminating one of the former French Minister of Foreign…
Since first impressions tend to be the most influential even if they’re actually false like that which many Indians perceived due to Twitter’s politicized labeling of redfish and the three earlier identified American actors’ efforts to misportray the intention behind that outlet’s planned video, it’s crucial to clarify President Putin’s personal diplomacy with the Chinese,…
The current crisis in Russia’s relations with the West has nothing to do with gas, oil, energy resources or the economy in general. Attempts to explain politics by “Prize” in the spirit of Daniel Yergin are a vain and shallow. We are dealing with civilizational and geopolitical processes, where economic and energy issues are secondary…
