... status, protect the Russian language, and respect the rights and freedoms of its citizens.
The Istanbul Agreements initialed on 29 March 2022 by the Russian and Ukrainian delegations could serve as a basis for the settlement. They provide for Kiev's refusal to join NATO and contain security guarantees for Ukraine while recognizing the realities on the ground at that moment. Needless to say, in over two years, these realities have considerably changed, including in legal terms.
On 14 June, President Vladimir Putin ...
... Agency) on August 21. Together with Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, he attended the summer meeting of the National Coalition Party's ministerial group in Rovaniemi, the administrative centre of Finland's northernmost region. Where exactly and when will NATO's growing presence in the “Land of a Thousand Lakes” be deployed?
How is Finland integrating into NATO?
Jan Oberg:
The Nordic Сountries: More Militarism and Confrontation Where Creativity, Security and Peace Were Eminently Possible
Suomi became NATO's 31
st
member on April 4, 2023, preceded ...
... the last 30 years that no one has dared to speak openly about this fact in countries that claim to be part of the ‘community of liberal democracies’. And Georgia is one of those. Especially given that nobody there has abandoned the goal of joining NATO and the EU.
The Georgian authorities are thus taking the liberty of directly contradicting the basic world order imposed on everyone by the Americans. Which is that the laws and norms of the UN apply to everyone except to the US itself. And since ...
... understands that the price of US security guarantees in the event of a direct conflict, for example, with Russia, is quite small. But the American “security umbrella” for Europe concerns, first of all, European political elites, for whom participation in NATO guarantees that they will never again have to worry that their managerial failures leading to revolutionary consequences, writes
Timofei Bordachev
.
This article is the first part of reflections on the future of international cooperation.
In July ...
... capacities of their own. The two Nordic nations can also boast of fat defense budgets that they are willing to contribute to NATO’s activities in the European North.
Anatasia Tolstukhina:
US Technology Policy amid Rivalry with China
Furthermore, the ... ... whether it concerns movie productions from Hollywood or the research programs of American universities. The position of the USA in international institutions (especially when it comes to their bureaucracy, which represents a kind of global Deep State) ...
The ICE alliance has more geopolitical and geostrategic rationale than economic
On July 11, 2024, on the margins of the NATO Summit in Washington, the US, Canada and Finland announced a new trilateral consortium—the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact—with an explicit intention to challenge Russia and China in icebreaker construction and deployment. It is ...
... fixated on money issues.
Western Europe’s fears have to do with something else – an uncertainty of a much more general nature. In 2022, the EU bet on America by refusing to take an independent line on the Ukraine conflict. Beyond the rhetoric, NATO’s
“unprecedented unity,”
in practice, means that the course is set by the strongest member state, both militarily and politically. And the Old World did not do this under pressure from its senior partner, but voluntarily, because it didn’t ...
While the US-led group enforces rigid bloc discipline, the world’s emerging powers extol flexibility
Two events – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pomp-filled visit to Moscow and the 75th anniversary NATO summit in Washington – coincided this week. The coincidence is remarkable because they illustrate two contrasting models for organising inter-state relations. The direction of world politics will largely depend on which of them prevails.
Russian-Indian ...
... deployed in Belarus. Russian non-strategic nuclear forces have recently begun exercises. Nevertheless, Western countries continue to pursue escalation in the Ukrainian conflict, which, if left unchecked, could lead to a frontal military conflict between NATO and Russia and a nuclear war. This scenario can be prevented by further strengthening deterrence - more precisely, by ‘nuclear sobering up’ our adversaries. They must realise that it is impossible to win a conventional war involving the vital ...
... And we are still dragging our feet. By so doing, we not only doom hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine and tens of thousands of our men to death, but we also do a disservice to the whole world. The aggressor, which the West de facto is, remains ... ... United States bluffed, though, and if it did make such plans, they were directed solely against Soviet troops advancing into NATO’s territory. No strikes on Soviet territory were planned, since there was no doubt that a retaliation would target American ...
