How the global crisis is strengthening Russia While analysts discuss oil prices and geopolitical calculations, the reality of war in the Middle East is measured not in charts but in human lives. In just a few days, more than a thousand people have been killed. Among them were 165 schoolgirls and staff who died in strikes on civilian infrastructure in Iran.
The meaning of the Alaska summit The news from Alaska caused shockwaves in every capital city of Europe. I refer, of course, not to ordinary citizens, but to that special elite of wise men and women who like to call themselves our leaders.
Russia emerges strengthened from Ukraine war, with profound implications for western imperialism “Europe is going to pay in a BIG way, as they should, and it will be your win”, NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte boasted to Donald Trump. Indeed, the NATO alliance of western imperialist powers agreed to up their ‘defence’ spending to five percent of GDP over the next decade, at their recent summit in The Hague. The European arms industry bosses were no doubt delighted.
