Geopolitics

Diego Garcia Smells Like War
Diego Garcia Smells Like War
A significant amount of US military power has been on the move over this past week, including several B-2 strategic bombers which have landed at the US military base in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean just over 2,000 miles southeast of Iran.
02.04.2025
The Terrible Cost of Kursk
The Terrible Cost of Kursk
On March 16, The New York Times reported that “Ukrainian forces have pulled almost entirely out of the Kursk region of Russia.” After seven months, one Ukrainian soldier told the BBC, “Everything is finished in the Kursk region.”
24.03.2025
The Ukraine War: Frank Talk, Liberal to Liberal
The Ukraine War: Frank Talk, Liberal to Liberal
It doesn’t really pay for a liberal to see through propaganda because you either alienate yourself from all your liberal friends who are wallowing in it, or you sit in crushing silence out of fear of being ostracized.
21.03.2025
Ukraine & Revolution
Ukraine & Revolution
For rulers, the most dangerous of all things is a still-armed soldier who starts to reflect.
14.03.2025
Kosovo, Taiwan… Abkhazia? Self-Determination Shouldn’t Be Selective
Kosovo, Taiwan… Abkhazia? Self-Determination Shouldn’t Be Selective
The Republic of Abkhazia is back in the news following the conclusion of its presidential runoff elections.
11.03.2025
Ukraine, Diplomacy & War
Ukraine, Diplomacy & War
Smoke and mirrors, as usual, surround the alternative “peace plan” that European leaders are going to present to Trump.
05.03.2025
Zelensky’s Oval Office Melt-Down
Zelensky’s Oval Office Melt-Down
It goes without saying that the Donald can never get enough of the limelight.
05.03.2025
Zelenskyy and the Future of NATO
Zelenskyy and the Future of NATO
Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s childish histrionics and ultimatums in the Oval Office directed at President Trump’s efforts to bring an end to the most devastating war on the continent of Europe since World War II are reflective of the European delusional mindset of self-serving expectations and perceived American obligations stemming from a one-sided seventy-five-year alliance -- the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
04.03.2025
SLOCs and Chokepoints: Panama, Greenland, Canada – and Indigenous Peoples
SLOCs and Chokepoints: Panama, Greenland, Canada – and Indigenous Peoples
Early into his second term as US President, Donald Trump threatened to seize control of the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada, possibly through military force.
03.03.2025
The Geopolitics of Peace
The Geopolitics of Peace
The author explains manipulative U.S. post-war foreign policy to European MPs, explodes myths about Ukraine and urges an independent European foreign policy.
28.02.2025
The US Needed Russia to Invade Ukraine
The US Needed Russia to Invade Ukraine
In a moment of candor in March 2022, Joe Biden revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion to launch its three-pronged, pre-meditated war on Russia.
25.02.2025
Greenlandic Grievances With Denmark and Trump’s Annexation Plan
Greenlandic Grievances With Denmark and Trump’s Annexation Plan
One of my favorite places on Earth, Greenland, has suddenly become the center of worldwide attention as US President Donald Trump reiterated his 2019 proposal that the US should do whatever it takes to acquire Greenland from Denmark.
20.02.2025
Is Trump’s Plan To Take Greenland To Control Arctic Shipping Lanes?
Is Trump’s Plan To Take Greenland To Control Arctic Shipping Lanes?
Donald Trump’s recent flirtations with acquiring Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal are not new ideas. They all relate to a single strategic objective: controlling shipping lanes between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
14.02.2025
Make The Ukraine Truce, Then Cut Europe Loose
Make The Ukraine Truce, Then Cut Europe Loose
Exactly 177 days after being sworn to office, America’s greatest peace president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, announced that the demolition derby on the Korean peninsula would be halted, and that an armistice would prevail henceforth – which armistice remains in place to this very day.
11.02.2025
Ukraine’s Rare Earth and Realpolitik
Ukraine’s Rare Earth and Realpolitik
For years, American foreign aid has followed a simple, unquestioned rule: the United States gives, and a motley assortment of allies and opportunistic nation-states take. Aside from vague diplomatic assurances, billions in taxpayer dollars flow overseas with little expectation of return. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Ukraine.
06.02.2025
A "golden age" for which America? Washington’s Panama playbook says it all
A "golden age" for which America? Washington’s Panama playbook says it all
During Marco Rubio's first overseas visit as US secretary of state, he tried hard to use the Panama Canal as a pretext to pressure Panama into distancing itself from China.
06.02.2025
Panama Tries Compromise; US Says It’s Not Enough
Panama Tries Compromise; US Says It’s Not Enough
The U.S. secretary of state’s visit to Panama on Sunday in the context of American imperialist history in the Canal Zone and U.S. obsession with China.
04.02.2025
Making the Arctic Great Again?
Making the Arctic Great Again?
It was just over five years ago, in August 2019, that President Trump spontaneously proposed purchasing Greenland from tiny Denmark, making waves around the world as members of the diplomatic and national security community grappled with the sudden, unexpected prospect of an American Arctic territorial expansion, which would be the first since 1867.
27.12.2024
Democracy as Theater in Which Trump Plays a Villain Too
Democracy as Theater in Which Trump Plays a Villain Too
Donald Trump has been made the central character in U.S. politics around whom everything revolves. But whether he wins or loses, the imperial status quo will be unchanged, says Caitlin Johnstone
28.08.2024
Vijay Prashad: The Far Right of a Special Kind
Vijay Prashad: The Far Right of a Special Kind
Fascism is an insufficient term because it denies the closeness between liberal and far-right forces. Here are 10 points to help us understand this “intimate embrace” and the emergence of a particular kind of far right
20.08.2024
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China slams G7 for being real perpetrator of economic coercion
Macron visits Pacific to bolster France’s position amid escalating strategic tensions
Macron visits Pacific to bolster France’s position amid escalating strategic tensions
China to impose export controls on key materials for chipmaking as West's "chip war" escalates
China to impose export controls on key materials for chipmaking as West's "chip war" escalates
US Still Nowhere with the Chinese
US Still Nowhere with the Chinese
Israel Creates New Military Intelligence Unit to Prepare for War With Iran
Israel Creates New Military Intelligence Unit to Prepare for War With Iran
Putin Says China’s Peace Plan Could Serve as Basis for Settlement in Ukraine
Putin Says China’s Peace Plan Could Serve as Basis for Settlement in Ukraine
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