For the time being it seems we avoided the global disaster of an all-out confrontation between US, Israel and their allies on the one hand, Iran and its allies. Going to the edge of the precipice and then backpedaling has become a quite usual pattern as far as the Iranian question is concerned, since 2006, the first time the Neocon ...
Europe UK: Conservative victory On December 12, snap parliamentary elections were held in Great Britain. The Conservative party of Prime Minister Boris Johnson won, receiving the majority of votes. Johnson is now poised to break the Brexit deadlock. On December 19, Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, in a speech to Parliament on government priorities, said that by January 31, 2020, the country must leave the ...
The death of Salah in Algeria In Algeria, Ahmed Gaid Salah, the 80-year-old head of the Algerian armed forces and a veteran of the Algerian war of independence, died of a heart attack. Formerly a supporter of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, he opposed his nomination for a fifth term during major protests. After Bouteflika resigned in April, Salah de facto served ...
Afghanistan Ghani Afghanistan’s incumbent President Ashraf Ghani is leading the race to retake the country’s leadership according to preliminary election results, according to the Afghan National Election Commission. According to an election commission spokesman during a press conference broadcast on the commission’s Facebook, Ghani won with 50.64% of the vote, according to preliminary results. In Second place with 39.52% of ...
NATO’s anniversary summit recently came to a close in London, where 29 NATO members summed up the results of the alliance summit held in London on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the military bloc. This time, the role of “bad guys” was played not by US President Donald Trump, but by the leaders of France and Turkey – ...
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region has announced its opposition to the US’ recently passed law on the protection of human rights and democracy in Hong Kong. On November 27, US President Donald Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 into law. The essence of the law The Hong Kong Democracy and Human Rights Act requires the ...
US foreign policy can almost be summarized in the fact that the country has 600 military bases around the world and Washington’s astronomical annual funding for both warfare and “soft power” efforts. Despite how incredibly concerned their leadership evidently is with the issue, Americans, for the most part, have little interest in foreign policy. If anything there is a penchant ...
US President Donald Trump described the House Democrats’ last attempt to remove him from office as an erosion of the US’ values and called it a coup attempt… as the Dems gear up to try the same again, the president’s words look even more relevant. As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that ...
On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court reaffirmed the president’s right to limit asylum requests for migrants from Central and South America. Trump hailed the decision as a “big victory,” while his opponents issued heavy criticism. According to the new ruling, migrants who cross over the United States’ southern border will be required to prove that other states along the way ...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Putin, who recovered Russia which was politically, economically and socially dispersed, once again succeeded in making Moscow one of the center of the world in foreign policy. Through the period we have been passing in which the relations between Turkey and Russia are deepening and the paths of the two countries are aligned,understanding ...