March, 2023

• 25 March

  Future Scenarios in Ukraine

  

  [The Russian invasion of Ukraine started in February 2022. With the aim of over-viewing what happened from the beginning of the war, to reflect on the role of NATO, and to consider possible future scenarios, Marcello Musto conducted a roundtable interview with three internationally well-known scholars from the Marxist tradition: …

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• 25 March

  West Sends Depleted Uranium Weapons to Ukraine: MEP to Warmongers – “You Make Me Sick!”

  

  Those who have been following events in Ukraine will know of the bloodshed and destruction taking place in that country, especially if they go beyond mainstream media reports. This is not to excuse Russia’s brutal military actions, but it was a wholly avoidable conflict that was largely engineered in Washington …

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• 25 March

  Arab Plan For Syria Puts US And Europe In A Bind – Analysis

  

  A push by Arab allies of the United States to bring Syria in from the cold highlights the limits of a Chinese-mediated rapprochement between the Middle East’s archrivals, Saudi Arabia and Iran. The effort spearheaded by the United Arab Emirates, and supported by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan, demonstrates that …

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• 25 March

  Europe–China Space Collaboration Fails To Launch – Analysis

  

  On 23 January 2023, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) Josef Ashbacher announced that Europe has no intentions of sending astronauts to China’s recently completed space station. While this decision will likely do little to slow China’s space ambitions, it suggests that Beijing’s assertive behaviour, human rights abuses …

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• 25 March

  Is A Monster UBS Bank Bad For Switzerland? – Analysis

  

  The dramatic takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS has concentrated all the risk of the rescue onto the shoulders of one Swiss bank. That makes some people in Switzerland very nervous. The Swiss government seems determined to see the CHF3 billion ($3.25 billion) takeover completed by the end of this …

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• 25 March

  Statism Is Destroying Real Wages – OpEd

  

  When we read about the US economy, we often get wage growth as a signal of a strong labor market. It is hardly a strong market when the labor participation rate and the employment to population ratio are both below the February 2020 level and have been stagnant for months. …

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• 25 March

  The Corporatization Of Ukraine War: A Case Of Unfolding Asymmetry In Military Power – Analysis

  

  For politicians, diplomats and military leaders alike, the Russo-Ukraine War has been most instructive. As we look back, while several old military beliefs and strategies have stood the test of this war, others stand challenged. Each of these perspectives are likely to be coloured by individual country’s past experience and …

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• 25 March

  Why The Tsushima Strait Is Vital For Northeast Asia’s Geopolitics – Analysis

  

  The Tsushima Strait, also known as the Eastern Channel of the Korea Strait, sits at a critical crossroads of Northeast Asia, which is home to some of the world’s largest economies, such as Japan, South Korea, and China. The 243-kilometre-long Tsushima Strait is a narrow waterway that connects South Korea …

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• 25 March

  US ASSEMBLES ASIAN NATO

  

  There is an active recruitment in a new military-political alliance directed against Russia and ChinaIn recent years, Southeast Asia (SEA) has begun to make Washington salivate profusely. The most tasty “pieces of the pie” the United States has looked after for itself in the form of those that have achieved …

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• 25 March

  ERDOGAN AND TURKISH SOVEREIGNTY

  

  The date of the presidential elections has been announced in Turkey. This will probably be the most difficult test for Erdogan. And by internal circumstances – the strengthening of the pro-Western secular-Kemalist opposition (primarily in the person of the Republican People’s Party), a split in the AKP itself, a sharp …

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