As soon as Moscow received an American response to its security demands in Ukraine, it answered indirectly by announcing greater military integration between it and three South American countries, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba. Washington’s response, on January 26, to Russia’s demands of withdrawing NATO forces from Eastern Europe and ending …

Случилось чудо. Теперь, может быть, и войны не будет. Камила Валиева допущена до соревнований, апелляции МОК, ISU и WADA не удовлетворены. Я не фанат спорта и не понимаю людей, зацикленных на успехах национальной сборной, но моральную победу Валиевой оцениваю необычайно высоко. Дело в том, что она вундеркинд, а именно любовью …

Die US-Geheimdienste haben aus der Annexion der Krim gelernt und führen Russlands Militärstrategen vor. Für den Kreml-Chef sind die Optionen schlecht. Ben Wallace fühlt sich in der Ukraine-Krise an 1938 erinnert. Ein „Hauch von München“ liege in der Luft, warnte der britische Verteidigungsminister in Anspielung auf die Appeasement-Politik Neville Chamberlains, …

If God forbid the administration fires it, the results will be to wound Moscow, but also to blow off America’s own toes. The Menendez bill on sanctions against Russia could be described as a hair trigger on a single-barrel sawed-off shotgun, with all that weapon’s combination of dreadful effect and …

Economists debating inflation in the United States are confronting a difficult challenge: stripping out volatile price changes to gauge underlying pressures. The most common measure of underlying or “core” inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, has been hard to read during the pandemic. The traditional measure came into …

In perhaps the most predictable column of the year, the Wall Street Journal this week featured a column by Walter Russell Mead declaring it’s “Time to Increase Defense Spending.” Using the Beijing Olympics and the potential Ukraine War to push for funneling ever more taxpayer dollars into military spending, Mead …

Libya’s political jostling is intensifying as the parliament prepares to announce a new Prime Minister. Despite the incumbent Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh’s refusal to step down has pushed ahead with plans to again extend a transitional period and delay any elections. In addition, the maneuvering comes after December’s collapse of a …

On Friday (11 February), NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited the Mihail Kogălniceanu Military Base (MK) in Romania to greet Allied deployments to the security of Romania and the Black Sea Region. In a joint press conference with the President of Romania Klaus Iohannis, the Secretary General thanked Romania for …

Beijing is ahead in the race for establishing a global digital currency standard (FPRI) — At the Beijing Olympics—in addition to showcasing a 60-foot snowman and an ambitious (if controversial) environmental initiative—China is debuting its newly minted central bank digital currency, or CBDC. The country had hoped to make a …

The United States assumed that Russia would be scared of the risks to go into Syria. That is a mistake that should not be made when it comes to Ukraine. Senior U.S. national security officials, diplomats, and military officers are all sounding similar warnings. “If Russia intervenes, they face a …