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US trying to maintain hegemony but its advantages are fading

... political advantages The US has always been seeking Roman empire-style global hegemony, but in fact it has been losing its financial, economic, and political advantages, said Kirill Babaev, director of the Institute of China and Modern Asia at the Russian Academy of Sciences, at an academic forum on Thursday gathering scholars from China, Russia and the US at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. Babaev told the Global Times that the balance of the world is ...

23.10.2023

Beyond the Vanishing Poles: The Pitfalls of Traditional Approaches to Understanding in International Politics

... 1980s none of the parties to the global conflict had the ability to conduct active offensive operations and, in fact, both the USA and Europe, as well as the USSR became powers with a permanent status, concerned with maintaining their position in the world ... ... association in order to rank among the leading participants in international life, equal in strength to the United States, China or Russia. In fact, it was Europe, its politicians and observers, that made the greatest contribution to the expansion of interpretations ...

23.10.2023

From the Middle East to Ukraine. A Milestone

The cost of a conflict with Russia for the United States will be measured not only and not so much by support for Ukraine, but also by the enormous cost of containing the Russian-Chinese tandem The aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is an indicator of the growing ...

23.10.2023

Syria–Turkey Relations: A Road to Normalization

... conducted away from public view, US attempts to contact its key regional adversary appears far from accidental. The move could have been prompted by changes in Iran’s relations with other countries, especially its evolving cooperation with China, Russia and Saudi Arabia. If any agreement has been reached (which is currently too early to judge), it would only boost Iran’s position in the region. The mere fact that the US is holding such talks indicates that it recognizes that regional changes ...

27.09.2023

Russia’s Global Information Security Initiatives

... International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – a specialized agency of the United Nations. Although ITU deals with purely technical issues, this organization has been crippled by politicization of its efforts and discrimination of the Russian side (refusal to appoint Russian representatives to leadership positions in various investigation commissions and advisory groups, revocation of entry visas, etc.). [ 34 ]. Thus, Russian diplomacy faces the problem of discrimination on important international platforms, which ...

22.09.2023

Already Routine: New US Sanctions Against Russian Companies

... participate in global trade and financial relations. Stringent blocking sanctions targeting Russia were first introduced in 2014. Since the start of the Special Military Operation, the intensity of their application has increased significantly. The number of Russian individuals blocked by Executive Order No. 14024 of April 15, 2021 alone is approaching two thousand. This figure does not include those assets in which already-blocked persons hold a stake of 50% or more. It would seem that the number is relatively small. But the list of blocked persons includes a large number of systemically important Russian ...

21.09.2023

Divided World

... irreversibly moving towards unity, and the obvious need to jointly confront the terrorist threat would be one of the factors accelerating this dynamic. Immediately after the air strikes on the towers of the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the leaders of Russia and China, as well as the UN Security Council, expressed their full solidarity with the people and government of the United States. Soon, the world community almost unanimously supported the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan with support of ...

12.09.2023

India-US Entente: A Russian Perspective

Like Russia, India is likely to resist the evolution of the international system towards a rigid U.S.-China bipolarity since such an evolution would inevitably deprive New Delhi of the freedom of manoeuvring that it enjoys now Recently there have been many ...

06.09.2023

Russia on the Way to BRICS Chairmanship

... that the overwhelming majority of observers hardly noticed the development of many other issues on the agenda. However, today we will focus exclusively on those points that, in this author’s opinion, will have a decisive influence on the essence of Russia’s upcoming BRICS chairmanship. Starting January 1, 2024, Russia will already be dealing with a completely different BRICS; as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, this is already a whole football team. Incidentally, the beginning of the ...

01.09.2023
 

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    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
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    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
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