NATO

A summary of the main political events and trends of 2019

geopolitical events of week

Today, Turkey is the least of NATO's problems: the contradictions have grown much deeper than a single wayward member of the alliance

Macron declared that “What we are experiencing is the brain death of NATO”

Interview with United World International (uwidata.com)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will arrive in Washington to hold talks with US President Donald Trump.

The Pentagon has made a supplementary allocation of almost $ 650 million for the construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border, simultaneously slashing the funds earmarked initially for security forces in Afghanistan.

Iran and Saudi Arabia have experienced a great deal of tension in their relations in recent years.

US President Donald J. Trump’s late October announcement that Washington intends to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia, coupled with his personal distaste for arms control treaties and multilateral agreements, his interest in massive arms sales (especially to the autocratic Middle Eastern monarchies) and his perceived efforts to undermine NATO and the European Union (EU), have deepened the rift between Washington and Brussels and have prompted Europe to take steps toward the creation of a joint European army.

The division between the European Union (centered on Germany and France) and the US under Trump came to light through a mutual reproachment that ironically followed commemoration ceremonies for the 100th anniversary of World War I in Paris.