Unless the partnership falls apart for some reason in years to come, AUKUS may well mark a watershed
One of the biggest news stories of this year—both in terms of military-technological cooperation and in the geopolitical sense— seemingly appeared out of the blue last week. The U.S., Australia and the UK set up what was dubbed AUKUS, a military and political grouping, whose first publicly stated goal is to be the building of atomic submarines for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Throughout the...
The inglorious end of the US military intervention in Afghanistan (and in the Middle East) made it possible to speculate that the end of the domination of the Western powers in world affairs has finally come
The inglorious end of the US military intervention in Afghanistan (and in the Middle East) made it possible to speculate that the end of the domination of the Western powers in world affairs has finally come. The only problem standing in the way of a more just international order is America’s...
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... this technology is another story). Instead, it went to the U.S. and UK to seek an alternative, without consideration for Paris that is now feeling the burn of deception and duplicity. This comes on top of significant economic losses, with impact on thousands of jobs in France.
Andrey Gubin:
The Indo-Pacific Conundrum: Why U.S. Plans Are Destined to Fail
The ire is even more acute vis à vis the American ally. Striking the AUKUS deal and accepting to sell SSN to Australia is a pure
realpolitik
move....
In the wake of the AUKUS deal, France is more likely to enhance its military co-operation with India
France’s anger at the US-UK-Australia (AUKUS) deal to build nuclear submarines in Australia is palpable but understandable, since Australia has reneged on a multi-billion-euro contract signed with France to supply twelve submarines to Australia. In an unprecedented outburst, Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Foreign Minister, has accused Australia and the U.S. of ‘duplicity, a major breach of trust and...
... kind that Americans experienced during the Vietnam War is likely to emerge. Rather, Washington is busy recalibrating its global involvement. It is focusing even more on strengthening the home base. Overseas, the United States is moving from a global crusade in the name of democracy to an active defense of liberal values at home and Western positions abroad.
Afghanistan has been the most vivid in a long series of arguments that persuaded Biden’s White House that a global triumph of liberal democracy ...
Apparently, the Biden administration is willing to boost U.S. military presence in the Indo-Pacific notwithstanding the declared defense budget austerity
Bon Voyage
That U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris paid an official visit to Singapore and Vietnam in late August 2021 signifies clear intention of Joe Biden’s democratic administration to forge ahead with the course taken by his predecessor to build
A Free and Open Indo-Pacific
. According to the statement made by the second-highest political...
According to the expert, statistics from recent years show that annual assistance to Afghanistan amounts to about five billion US dollars, but this sum is not enough to satisfy the needs of the country’s population
Afghanistan may face a food crisis under the Taliban (outlawed in Russia) rule because this movement is under sanctions of both individual states and the United Nations, Andrei Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, told TASS on Monday.
"A food...
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(left) and Haroon Sabawoon – Anadolu Agency (right)
According to
The Military Balance
, a military journal published annually, Afghan government forces had 640 MSFV armored security vehicles, 200 MaxxPro armored fighting vehicles and several thousand Hummers
at their disposal
. The Afghan Air Force had 22
EMB-314 Super Tucano (А-29)
light attack aircraft (see
image 2
), four C-130H Hercules transport aircraft, 24
Cessna 208B
and 18 turboprop
PC-12s
. The Army Air Corps boasted 41 MD-530F ...
Unlike in September 2001, today the international community is no longer united around Washington in confronting this global challenge
I was in New York on September 11, 2001. Moreover, on the morning of this tragic day I happened to be in Lower Manhattan, just a couple of blocks away from the World Trade Center. Thus, I became an accidental witness to a Boeing 767 hitting the façade of the North Tower and a couple of minutes later - to another Boeing crashing the wall of the South Tower. The collapse...
