The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military-political alliance, was signed in Washington on April 4, 1949, by the governments of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg, and Iceland. Entered into force on August 24, 1949, it has expanded to the present day; Greece...
This legislation will exempt gold and silver coins from sales tax in Florida. It also means that within Florida, there will be a means of payment independent of digital money created by governments for the purpose of controlling the population, its behaviour, and it’s expressed views, in order that governments can rule via official...
The collapse of the global order will not begin with a war in Asia but with the realization that rules no longer bind the strong and alliances no longer oblige the powerful. At Davos, European and Canadian leaders did not merely criticize US policy; they questioned the durability of the postwar system...
The European Union, which has just woken up to Donald Trump’s United States, doesn’t know how to react to the breakdown of the transatlantic link. It can only do so as it has always done, with each political crisis, by strengthening its federalism and its dependence on Washington. This maladaptation inevitably leads it to...
On 23 January 2026, the “Unclassified” version of the United States 2026 National Defence Strategy was published. The document is published every four years to outline the aims and objectives of the US Department of War. These guidelines are carefully prepared in light of the National Security Strategy, which is outlined by the US President and the Departmen...
The United States officially unveiled the charter of the Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum’s annual summit in Davos, Switzerland. This marked the official launch of the second phase of the controversial 20-point Gaza Peace Plan. The US President Donald Trump announced an intricate four-tier governance structure with no representation granted to the ...
Local commentators analyze the likely scenarios for tensions between the two antagonists and their implications for the entire region. Regional media are taking seriously the statements of US President Donald Trump, who, under the pretext of protecting Iranians from assassinations and human rights violations, hinted at an imminent military...
While China, Russia, and the United States are reshaping the world, President Trump is engaging in a perilous exercise of overvaluing his legacy. He has managed to convince us that he chose to withdraw from NATO, when he can no longer remain. In reality, he finds himself in the same position as Mikhail Gorbachev when he withdrew from the Warsaw Pact: on the ...
January 20th marked exactly one year since Donald Trump resumed office as the 47th President of the United States. The initial results of Donald Trump’s tenure are assessed differently in the United States and abroad, yet there appears to be a broad consensus that the American leader has shaken both the global economy and international politics - a shock who...
On January 19, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced snap elections for the Lower House of the Diet on February 8. The PM hopes to secure more seats for her coalition and consolidate a solid majority in...
It is a testament to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s extraordinary statesmanship, political resolve, and diplomatic agility that India and the European Union (EU) have concluded what is already being called the “mother of all trade deals.” Stung by an increasingly uncertain and flip-flopping global policy environment - one in which tariffs have become...
The world is changing very quickly. The year 2026 should be marked by the return of spheres of influence and the end of colonial empires. Above all, it will see the return of international law to the rules we have known until now. Only those who are able to understand these developments and adapt to them quickly will continue to...
Donald Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace,” unveiled as a mechanism for global conflict management, is portrayed less as a genuine peacebuilding institution than as a symbolic assertion of power that reflects a deeper erosion of multilateral governance and institutional...
In recent years, Cubans have been forced to endure one of their worst shortages of basic necessities, such as food, medical supplies, and fuel. The fuel shortage has been particularly devastating, as it causes regular power outages, which makes it extremely difficult to work and engage in production, and obstructs the transport and distribution of goods acro...
This article presents a different view of the military-political “Vukovar operation” in 1991 in the context of the brutal destruction of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), historical disputes between the Serbs and Croats at the beginning of the post-Cold War era, and the disappearance of the SFRY in the...
Judging from opinion polls, the American public has increasingly become largely disenchanted with the bizarre behaviour of President Donald J Trump and the clownish entourage that surrounds and encourages him. Last week featured a meeting between Trump and the foreign minister of Denmark as well as his counterpart from Greenland’s legislative...
Over the past few days, the United States carried out one of the most extraordinary military operations in recent memory: airstrikes in Venezuela, followed by the capture and forcible rendition of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife to New York. Within hours, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would “run Venezuela” until such time as w...
Europe has delivered an unexpected answer to Donald Trump’s renewed threats to annex Greenland by dispatching troops to the Danish autonomous territory for a military exercise. Germany, France, Norway. Sweden, as well as Finland and Estonia, have joined Denmark in reinforcing the island’s security. It is the first time since Trump’s return to the centre of i...
The helping hand that Pakistan is lending to Türkiye in Libya, which follows that which it recently lent in Somalia and half a decade earlier in Azerbaijan, could lead to them working together in Kazakhstan next as that country risks a crisis with Russia over its production of NATO-standard...
The Democrats in Minnesota are in an openly declared insurrection against the government of the United States. The insurrection is led by the Jewish Democrat left-wing mayor of Minneapolis and by the Democrat left-wing governor of Minnesota, who Democrats thought was qualified to be vice president of the United...