UWI author Yunus Soner provided an interview to Sputnik Türkiye on the recent US threats against and the reaction in Venezuela. Below we present the interview as published by Sputnik Türkiye here. Latin America is on the verge of a geopolitical tremor on a scale not seen in many years. The US’s increasing military and political pressure on Venezuela has ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist/Writer With US President Donald Trump’s second term in office, the world has entered a new and significant period of chaos. Of course, there was chaos before the Trump era. However, the chaos brought about by Trump is rapidly taking its place in history as a different reality, emerging in line with the ‘peace through strength’ ...
6.5 million citizens are called in Honduras to elect their next president today. Three candidates have chances to win in an election that the US president has turned into his own competition. Already in the recent parliamentarian elections in Argentina had Donald Trump presented his policy. US meddling into elections elsewhere is nothing new, but usually done with some discretion. ...
Eyes are on US president Trump’s possible aggression against Venezuela. But the real news are rather in Washington than in Caracas. The Maduro government appears completely stable, while the Trump regime is being shaken. Take a look at what happened in both capitals over the weekend: Caracas and the rest of Venezuela have conducted a referendum, with thousands of Venezuelans ...
By Carlos Fazio, from Mexico City / Mexico Mexico and Venezuela share some commonalities in the current situation, but also significant differences. Both are countries possessing oil and other geostrategic resources disputed by the United States and China, and with varying degrees of intensity and situational impact, both are targets of a diffuse hybrid war waged by Washington, combining deterrence, ...
In recent weeks, talks between Türkiye, Syria, and the US have accelerated. The developments and statements suggest that certain shared understandings have been reached. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa visited Washington on 10 November and had “warm talks” with Trump. The Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan made a “surprise” visit to Washington and joined part of the al-Sharaa–Trump meeting. US Ambassador ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist/Author The second Trump term will mark its first anniversary in just two months, and this past year has been sufficient to cause major upheavals on the global stage. Indeed, Trump’s foreign policy has taken America’s customary aggressive power projection even further, pushing it beyond the bounds of imperial behavior and transforming it into a mindset ...
By Dr. Halim Gençoğlu Nigeria, as Africa’s most populous and economically largest country, holds strategic importance in U.S. Africa policy. Diplomatic relations established since 1960 between the two countries have long involved interactions in areas such as oil trade, counter-terrorism cooperation, and democracy support. However, in the 2024-2025 period, particularly the Trump administration’s harsh rhetoric toward Nigeria over claims of ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Dedicated to the Heroic Guerrilla, Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, on the 58th anniversary of his passing into immortality After reading a recent article by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, I was left thinking about a phrase he said: “Trump has once again entered an alternate reality…” With the unique irony that has characterized him in recent ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein I would like to offer some guidelines that will contribute to understanding Trump’s war against Venezuela and its insertion into regional and global dynamics. I believe this situation must be viewed from two dimensions: the international and the domestic for the United States. Firstly, I think it’s necessary to say that in today’s world, no event ...