It’s always easy to feel prescient in hindsight. I recall conversations from 15 or 20 years ago with Western interlocutors – who are now from unfriendly nations – on NATO expansion. The discussions always began in a relatively solemn manner. From our side, we…
Category: 4. World
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Mission accompli: Macron charms Trump, and pushes back against him
If there’s a way to get to US President Donald Trump’s heart, then French President Emmanuel Macron has the map to it.
His visit to Washington, D.C., as Trump’s peace push picks up pace, has proved to be illustrative of this.
Macron’s objectives were clear-cut: one, to convince…
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the UK’s Russia-Ukraine Problem — Russia in Global Affairs
Britain’s tabloid press loves to muse which party the Kremlin prefers in charge at Westminster. For years, it was thought to be a far-right party of different incarnations: Reform, UKIP, the Brexit Party, all led by Nigel Farage. The line of argument was that this…
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Treat Ukraine’s fight as our own, 600+ leaders urge West on invasion’s 3rd anniversary
Three years after 24 February 2022, the Europeans have still not grasped the full significance of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and its implications in Ukraine and far beyond. The Americans, aware of what is at stake in terms of global security in the Far East, are clinging to the illusion…Continue Reading
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The Last Battle of the Cold War Just Took Place in Germany — Russia in Global Affairs
This year’s Munich Security Conference attracted as much attention as it did 18 years ago. Back then, it was Vladimir Putin who caused an uproar; this time, it was US Vice President J.D. Vance. Though separated by nearly two decades, these two speeches share a…
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The 1938 Munich disaster taught the world these five ironclad security lessons. The 2025 one proved Trump has forgotten them all
As world leaders huddled at Munich’s Bayerischer Hof in February 2025, an unsettling sense of déjà vu lingered. Since 2022, the globe’s top security conference has been consumed with tackling Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.
However, this time, the once-unshakable Western unity was visibly…
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Russia, the US, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, and the New Global Order — Russia in Global Affairs
Russia And The World In Vladimir Putin’s Next Term
Fyodor A. Lukyanov
How has Putin been a transformative force in Russia’s rise? What does Putin’s new term mean for Russia’s role in the world order? How is…
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“Back to war”: Ukrainian vets learn winter sports, win 30 medals at Invictus Games
Team Ukraine got a crash course in snow sports at the Invictus Games in Vancouver-Whistler, the first Invictus with winter events.
One of the team’s training camps took place in the winter resort, requiring athletes to learn snowboarding, skiing, and skeleton skills from scratch in a…
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a Spectre of Irrelevance — Russia in Global Affairs
Turmoil in international politics in mid-February has definitely eclipsed Saint Valentine’s Day. While this was not unexpected, the new U.S. president spoke for 90 minutes with his Russian counterpart and warmly praised him afterward. The fact that this…
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Humanizing the “inhumanizable”: The West continues its quest for “good Russians”
“The Russians don’t attack, the Russians end wars.”
A fully-equipped Russian man, standing and smoking a cigarette, is seen saying that in front of the camera. You can’t see his face, as he’s wearing a balaclava. But you can hear his tone and almost see the smirk that such tone is…
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