For a week now, mass protests have continued in the United States calling for racial and social justice. Parts of the National Guard have been introduced in many states and Washington, D.C. America is the largest civil standoff since the 1960s when the country was rocked by protests against racial segregation and the war in Vietnam. Against the background of ...
The chaos that was unleashed following the murder of George Floyd quickly spread across all 50 US states. The country has been left in a whirl-wind. Protesters in Washington DC marched towards the White House, where American flags were burnt in the yard. Everyone seems to agree that this is the end of whatever was left of the ‘American dream’. ...
Continuing its long tradition of foreign intervention, US authorities announced the possibility of sending military units to Tunisia. US AFRICOM command justified the idea by claiming it was a response to Russian activity in the region. The statement came right after US Army Gen. Stephen Townsend spoke with Imed Hazgui, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Tunisia on ...
The Romanian Ministry of National Defense has requested the approval of the Parliament to begin the design and execution of the barracks on the air base Mihail Kogalniceanu, according to Radio Free Europe. In May 2020, Romanian Defense Minister Nicolae Ciuca sent a letter to the legislature explaining, among other things, that Romania wants to be “a pole of stability ...
Let us begin with an excerpt from an article dated May 5, 2020 by the former director of STRATFOR, an American Think Tank, George Friedman. In his article titled ‘Power and the Rise and Fall of Nations’, Friedman wrote: “The public perception of power is rooted in events that might have little to do with power. The reality of power ...
The US is preparing to return its military to Libya in one capacity or another. This conclusion is clear from the increasing activity of the United States in Libya. All of this is formally related to the strengthening of Russia’s position: these are the Pentagon’s statements about the transfer of Russian aircraft to the forces of the Libyan National Army ...
The United States of America was the first country in the world to be built by sects. Representatives of the European persecution of Protestants settled in the New World to build their “city upon a hill”, a millenary Protestant utopia. It was a claim to build a new society, whose principles would extend to other nations in the future. As ...
On the evening of May 27, protests erupted in Minneapolis, Minnesota following the death of George Floyd. On Friday night, May 29, protesters stormed and set fire to a police station… Team members with Minnesota's Multi-Agency Command Center (MACC) joined Guard members on an aerial reconnaissance flight of areas hardest hit during recent unrest. The MACC coordinates law enforcement and ...
Europe Germany vs. the European Commission On May 11, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leien, said that it was possible that the EU will start legal proceedings against Germany. Earlier, the Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany ruled that the purchase of government bonds of the association countries by the European Central Bank was ...
The pre-pandemic trends away from the West have been accelerating and starting to take its shape gradually over the course of the pandemic, but have brought with them many paradoxes. ‘DISORDERED WORLD ‘ High Representative of the European Union(EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell’s expressions serve as a brief summary of the situation: “The world order was ...