Columna La Opinión de Málaga, 10.12.2019 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de España y columnista
Why care about Ukraine and the Budapest Memorandum
Blog Brookings, 05.12.2019 Steven K. Pifer, economista (Stanford), embajador (r) y académico norteamericano (Brookings)Since 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, the United States has provided Ukraine with $3 billion in reform and military assistance and $3 billion in loan guarantees. U.S. troops in western Ukraine train their Ukrainian colleagues. Washington, in concert with the European Union, has...
Is NATO Brain Dead?
Blog RAND Corporation, 03.12.2019 James Dobbins, embajador (r), ex representante especial para Afghanistan y Pakistan y académico norteamericano (RAND Corporation)French President Emmanuel Macron recently declared that “we are experiencing the brain death of NATO.” He made this remark in support of longstanding French policy favoring a more united Europe less dependent for its security on American leadership and protection. Macron's...
Delincuentes, no; gorrones, ciertamente
Blog Republica, 03.12.2019 Inocencio Arias, embajador (r) y columnista españolTrump ha llegado a Europa con su zafiedad y su verdad habituales. Con pocos pelos en la lengua. Ha arremetido contra Macron por decir que la OTAN estaba casi en coma. Ha calificado las declaraciones del francés como irrespetuosas y muy, muy groseras por mal intencionadas. No...
Russia-Ukraine relations take leap of faith
Columna Indian Punchline, 16.11.2019 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioThe relationship of the famous Ukrainian oligarch and billionaire Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky lends itself to various interpretations. Both Kolomoyskyi and Zelensky (rather, his spokesperson Iuliia Mendel) are in denial mode about their past business association but the impression lingers that the oligarch...
Cornering and Strangulating Iran Has Backfired on Israel
Columna Strategic-Culture, 11.11.2019 Alastaire Crooke, ex diplomático británico y cofundador del Conflicts Forum de BeirutWhat happens if the two premises on which Israel and America’s grand Iran strategy is founded are proven false? ‘What if’ maximum pressure fails either to implode the Iranian state politically, nor brings Iran to its knees, begging for a new ‘hairshirt’ nuclear...
Un regalo para Putin
Columna El Confidencial, 06.11.2019 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de España
Rusia es la gran beneficiada de la retirada de tropas en Siria, porque ocupa el espacio que dejan libre los EEUU y extiende su influencia en Oriente Medio, de donde había salido
¡Y ni siquiera era su cumpleaños! En 'Alicia en el país de las maravillas' se...El futuro de la Unión Europea
Columna Infobae, 31.10.2019 Roberto García Moritán, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE argentinoEuropa se encamina a una política exterior más autónoma en un mundo caracterizado por la inestabilidad y la puja de poder entre Estados Unidos y China. El Presidente de Francia definió ese propósito como la de actor geopolítico de equilibrio en la búsqueda...
Iran a suggestive compilation of facts
Carta OpinionGlobal, 02.11.2019 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y cónsul honorario de Chile en BeirutIf you wish to understand better the exponential growth of power of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Middle East, the essay "How Iran Changed U.S. Strategic Assets into Liabilities and Altered the World Balance of Power", by Mohamad Shaaf, in Information Clearing...
It’s Curtains For US In Syria. Russia, Iran Owe Big Thanks To Erdogan
Columna Indian Punchline, 15.10.2019 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioThe scenario agreed on behind the curtains through months of confidential exchanges, often one-on-one, between the Russian and Turkish leaders regarding north-eastern Syria is entering a critical phase of implementation on the ground with the agreement between the Kurds and the Assad regime. We have a complex...