The United States may want to drive a wedge between Russia and China, but lack of coordination is opening fissures with its allies. Thus, the US might achieve little or no results while Moscow gains much more political space. While US President Donald Trump is talking to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, he’s also engaging […]
The outline of a long, different Cold War is looming clearer. Europe is ready for rearmament, while Italy must choose between a real defense or becoming the Belorussia of the Mediterranean It’s just days away from a proposal for the long-awaited ceasefire in Ukraine; two months ago, a truce was reached in Gaza, and since […]
Diplomacy is in full gear, seeking a pause to wars and tussles. Russia and China may not trust the US, but all may need a truce; it might be fragile. Beijing is trying to get out of a corner. In the game of friendship and suspicion among the grand capitals of the Eurasian landmass—Moscow, Beijing, […]
Perhaps the US is looking at things from the wrong angle. Why save Moscow from a self-destructive fight? As a percentage of GDP, the war is far more costly for Russia than for the US or the EU. The US may seek peace in Ukraine to save resources, convince Russia to break with Beijing, focus […]
The US has no problem bigger than China’s challenge, yet Beijing is ready for drawn-out friction, so the US may need a long-term strategy. On March 8, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post opined that the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showed that America is leading a retreat […]
The tension between Trump and Zelensky at the White House may be not just a spat but a display of a serious strategic American fissure in how to deal with Russia and China. In early January 2020, as soon as the news of Covid from China spread and Beijing ordered a lockdown on several cities, […]
The Ukrainian war seeps into the faith of non-Russian countries as Moscow’s orthodoxy is feared as a trojan horse of Putin’s disruptive intentions On February 19, the Estonian Parliament approved in its first reading a law aimed at preventing the use of the pro-Russian Church for anti-state purposes. The law establishes the illegality of a […]
