On December 14, one day after writing the first part of this work, it was announced that the United States Senate approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an instrument that establishes the spending and policies of the country’s Department of Defense, empowering the Pentagon to spend a record $886 billion by fiscal year 2024. Now, the initiative will be ...
The United States, which is spreading chaos around the world, is having a crisis at home. Leaving China, Russia, and Türkiye aside, US President Joe Biden urged Congress to accept a deal that would raise the government’s borrowing ceiling and prevent a catastrophic US default. After much wrangling, negotiators from the Democratic and Republican parties reached an agreement on May ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * The visit of the Speaker of the United States’ House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and the provocation to China that this entails, can only be interpreted as one more step in the escalation of tensions that Washington wants to generate in the world in order to maintain its global hegemony. The visit pursued two objectives: ...