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Experts weigh in on Donald Trump’s ambition step up the US icebreaker fleet
Britain’s Europe policy has always sought to erode the potential cooperation of other nations. But it did not help London shed its erstwhile foreign policy prowess. The berth the UK occupies in the current global configuration can be described as a North Atlantic Singapore.
Amid the spiralling global standoff and the perilous game of nuclear chicken, Pope Francis thwarted any attempts to make him play the role of NATO’s chapelain, the shoes some of his predecessors had indeed filled quite snugly.
Europe’s endgame in the processes triggered by a sea change in the US policies utterly depends on the goals pursued by its political elites. Attaining a new global status is certainly not one of them, though.
When European observers say that Europe needs a leader to stand against U.S. or Russia, they are joking, of course. Europe’s main task is to adapt to these superpowers.
Europeans’ current behaviour is best described by an episode from an old American fairy tale about Brother Rabbit.
The campaign took place between 1812 and 1815 just as Europe was duking it out with Napoleon. The British-backed Canadians burned down the White House and the United States Capitol.
The US response to the Chinese-made DeepSeek AI assistant has spurred the Great AI Divide. The Chinese have broken the industry-wide rules formerly set by the US.
There are two things European elites can be really afraid of when it comes to their relations with the new American administration.
The waning days of the outgoing year and the dawn of the new one are about the right time to recap and process the events that are already in the books as well as contemplate their potential implications for the future.
Trump’s proposals targeting territorial gains may well attest to his ability to plainly assert the following. Contrary to a popular misconception, state sovereignty transcends a formally enshrined status.
In the early 20th century, World War I laid waste to the European empires of yore. Fast-forward to 2024 – and the Old World is faced with a predicament where it does have enough resources but seems inept and clueless about how to use them.
The dream of Europe being home to multiple nation-states cherished by the likes of Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer in the 1960s may well come back online.
G20 is effectively a symbol of the past age and a test polygon where the world trains its global politics skills.
Today, Germany is a political nullity in the very centre of Europe, with a significant role in the global economy and trade.
The shock and psychological distress in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks have precipitated seismic shifts in global politics and shaken up the world order.
The biotech industry has recently been providing no shortage of big-picture stories illustrative of how modern business is being done, and here is but one of those.
World piece didn’t work even in the Web, just because the Web is not a standalone entity, but a virtual projection of the world itself, with its hostility of everyone against everyone, meanness, greed, and aggression.
Three million Westerners relocating to Russia may sound like a bad joke, but it is, in fact, a possibility.
When it comes to Ukraine, Russia is dealing with a failed state perched right next to its border. Therefore, any interaction with this entity lies outside the traditional legal framework applicable to sovereign states.
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