Blog Republica, 02.11.2021 Inocencio F. Arias, embajador (r) y columnista españolLos profundamente preocupados con los resultados, ¿magros?, de la cumbre de Glasgow sobre el cambio climático deberían percatarse de que toda gran conferencia internacional, organizada o no por la ONU, que se fija unos determinados objetivos sobre problemas que afectan a toda la humanidad, hambre, salud,...
Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-31
Columna Indian Punchline, 02.11.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r) y columnista indio
India plays Russian cardThe chances were slim that the Pakistani National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf would accept the invitation from his counterpart Ajit Doval to a regional meet of security tsars in New Delhi to discus the situation in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Nonetheless, the dismissive manner in...
Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-27
Blog Indian Punchline, 13.10.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioMoscow has categorically stated that it will not accept a US military presence in the Central Asian region. This reiteration has come at the level of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov who told Tass that Afghanistan had been discussed at a meeting with Victoria Nuland,...
El cambio climático, asumido pero insuficientemente combatido
Blog Republica, 12.10.2021 Inocencio F. Arias, embajador (r) y columnista españolEstados Unidos tuvo en 2020 el mayor número de incendios forestales de su historia. Varios millones de hectáreas ardieron. Este año ha sido asimismo catastrófico. Un bombero de California declaraba que hace 50 años un incendio que amenazase 40.000 hectáreas era algo casi apocalíptico, este año...
President Zelensky comes to Washington
Columna Brookings, 25.08.2021 Steven K. Pifer, académico y ex embajador norteamericanoPresident Volodymyr Zelensky visits Washington next week, with the highlight being a White House call on President Joe Biden. That offers the opportunity to reinvigorate the U.S.-Ukraine relationship at the highest level, following four years of Donald Trump. This can be a very good meeting for the...
Crónica de una venganza
Columna El País Digital, 01.08.2021 Enrique Subercaseaux M., director Fundación Voz NacionalEl gobierno de Salvador Allende quedo inconcluso. Su pésimo manejo, en todos los ámbitos, el hecho de perseguir una utopía a tontas y a locas, termino mal. EL resto es historia. Quienes participaron en el, y muchos de sus descendientes directos, han buscado, por todos los...
Russia’s Corporate Soldiers: The Global Expansion of Russia’s Private Military Companies
Informe (resumen ejecutivo) CSIS Transnational Threats Project, julio 2021 Seth G. Jones, Catrina Doxsee, Brian Katz, Eric McQueen y Joe Moye (investigadores CSIS)Russia has utilized private military companies (PMCs) as an important component of its irregular warfare strategy. Irregular warfare includes activities short of conventional and nuclear warfare that are designed to expand a country’s influence...
Anglo-American tripwire traps Russian bear
Blog Indian Punchline, 03.07.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioThe Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated in black and white during a nationally telecast interview on June 30 that the mysterious incident a week earlier involving a British guided missile destroyer HMS Defender off Crimea in the Black Sea was an act of ‘provocation’. Putin called it...
Lo que nos reveló la Cumbre Biden-Putin en Ginebra
Columna Infobae, 17.06.2021 Roberto García Moritán, embajador(r) y ex viceministro de RREE argentino
El encuentro no parece haber tenido imprevistos. Ninguno mostró interés por mantener relaciones personales cálidas. Tampoco ocultaron desconfianza ni transmitieron coincidencias en múltiples temas delicados. Sin embargo, el encuentro rebaja la tensión entre EEUU y RusiaLa Cumbre Biden-Putin, en Ginebra como sede neutral, reviste...
Did Biden succeed with Putin? Check back in six months
Columna Brookings, 17.06.2021 Steven K. Pifer, embajador(r) y académico norteamericano (Center on US & Europe Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative)U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a short summit yesterday in Switzerland that both sides described as substantive, efficient, and without rancor. Did the meeting advance Biden’s objective of building a stable and predictable U.S.-Russia...