Columna Strategic-Culture, 31.10.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático brotánico y director fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)“It has taken the US military/security complex 31 years to get rid of President Reagan’s last nuclear disarmament achievement – the INF Treaty, that President Reagan and Soviet President Gorbachev achieved in 1987”, writes Reagan’s former Assistant Treasury Secretary: “Behind the scenes, I had...
Rearme nuclear
Columna La Opinión de Málaga, 29.10.2018 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de EspañaHace ya unos años que el ambiente geopolítico mundial se está enrareciendo entre Rusia y los EEUU como consecuencia de los acontecimientos de Ucrania y Crimea, y también entre Estados Unidos y China con el desencadenamiento de guerras comerciales, hasta el punto de que es...
Istanbul Summit on Syria Was a Success but Caveats Remain
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 29.10.2018 Melkulangara Bhadrakumar, ex diplomáticio indio y columnista de diversos mediosThe four-nation Turkey-Russia-Germany-France summit on Syria on October 27 in Istanbul had an impressive outcome. All participants – each with own interests – has some ‘takeaway’ from the summit, which itself is a measure of the success of the event. This is also important because...
Britain on the Leash with the United States – but at Which End?
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 13.10.2018 James George Jatras, ex diplomático norteamericano y asesor internacional del liderazgo republicano (Senado)
- The “special relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom is often assumed to be one where the once-great, sophisticated Brits are subordinate to the upstart, uncouth Yanks
In Trade, as in Foreign Policy, America Goes for ‘Broke’
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 09.10.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y director fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)Trump’s Administration is putting its ‘all’ on red on the roulette wheel of a radically leveraged US trade and foreign policy. It is a bet that a ruthless ‘no prisoners taken’ pursuit of naked US commercial interest can restore American economic hegemony. But,...
For US, Meddling in Orthodox Church Affairs Is Just Another Tool Against Russia
Columna Strategic-Culture, 29.09.2018 James G. Jatras, ex diplomático norteamericano y asesor internacional del liderazgo republicano en el Senado
Probably not many people who follow international affairs think the intricacies of Orthodox Church governance are particularly important
Well, the US Department of State does. Barely a week ago, the State Department, via the statement of a senior official, Ambassador Michael Kozak, publicly...Reclaiming American Internationalism
Columna Project-Syndicate, 28.09.2018 Christopher R. Hill, embajador (r), ex Secretario de Estado Adjunto para Extremo Oriente y profesor de Práctica Diplomática (U. de Denver)US President Donald Trump has managed to attract support for his "America First" isolationism not by dint of his own arguments, but because the US foreign-policy establishment abandoned its own values. After decades of thoughtless...
Syria: Bolton Throws Down the Gauntlet
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 25.09.2018 Melkulangara Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioA terrible beauty was born last night with the sequence of dramatic events taking a curious turn, following the shooting down of the Russian plane on September 17 near the coastline of Latakia, Syria, killing fifteen personnel on board the aircraft. After a meticulous investigation by the Russian side,...
Mientras termina el ‘gran nuevo juego’ ¿cuál será la nueva configuración del Oriente Medio?
Carta OpinionGlobal, 26.09.2018 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y cónsul honorario de Chile en BeirutDurante 23 años, desde 1994, he venido conversando con mis amigos y colegas chilenos acerca de la situación en el Medio Oriente como tal. De hecho, a principios del siglo XX, el Medio Oriente, era una entidad bien definida dentro del sistema que los...
Can Russia Survive Her ‘Partnerships’? Has Putin Made A Strategic Miscalculation?
Blog Institute for Political Economy, 19.09.2018 Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, ex Secretario Asistente del Tesoro de Política EconómicaIn an act of intentional deception, Israel used a Russian airplane to cloak an Israeli attack on a Syrian ground position, with the consequence that Syrian air defense missiles downed the Russian airplane with the lost of 15 Russian military lives. In...