By Michael Roberts * Editorial note: This article was published prior to the election it deals with. But due to its deep and structural analysis, UWI considers that its finding are not only worthy to explain the results but also shed a light on Germany’s path ahead. Elections took place in two large provincial states (Lander) in eastern Germany. All the ...
By Deniz Yıldırım The energy crisis, rising food and rent prices, the highest inflation in the last 70 years… The cost of supporting Ukraine is becoming more burdensome every day. Since February 2022, the German government has allocated approximately 34 billion euros in support to Ukraine and Ukrainians. Germany ranks second after the US. However, support for Ukraine is being ...
Russian MP Kuznetsov: We need a reliable world, with justice and respect to every nation’s interests
By Edvard Chesnokov Dmitry Kuznetsov is a member of the State Duma (the Russian Parliament) from the SRZP (A Just Russia — For Truth) party. Along with his party fellow, a famous Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin, Kuznetsov stands for Eurasianism and establishing a united anti-American front between Moscow, Ankara, Tehran, Beijing, Pyongyang and other non-western actors. Exclusively to UWI, Dmitry ...
UWI author and political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan evaluated Ukraine’s attack on Kursk and recent developments in West Asia. Güzaltan claims that the war provocations against Russia and Iran are happening simultaneously, and that the response could be coordinated. He also suggests that the front line stretching from Russia to Iran has merged into a single front over time. Why ...
The German government has permitted Ukraine the use of German weapons against Russian territory. This caused a debate not limited to Germany. Many voices fear an escalation of the conflict. One of them is Thomas Fasbender, the geopolitics editor of the German daily newspaper Berliner Zeitung. The newspaper is not pro-Russian. In a commentary in the same media, Alexander Dubowy ...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos A stormy chain of events in recent days, with the latest being Biden’s decision to allow the use of US weapons for strikes inside Russia, has come to confirm our worst fears. The human species is, as Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University said recently in an interview, closer to nuclear annihilation than at any other time ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Several readers have written to me, asking whether a third world war is imminent and inevitable. The dilemma established with the beginning of the nuclear age after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 has always been present. But today, it has been brought to the forefront of public concern of ...
By Onur Sinan Güzaltan Historians describe the 1789 French Revolution as a “rupture”. The political, economic, and cultural upheaval that occurred in France following the Storming of the Bastille, which shook the world, is described as a “rupture”, a radical break from the established order. Today, we are in the midst of a significant global rupture process. Chinese President Xi ...
By Orçun Göktürk/ Beijing, China Russian leader Putin was the last guest of honor at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, the heart of Beijing. In France during Xi’s European tour, Macron and von der Leyen said “use your influence on Moscow and stop Russian aggression”, to which Xi responded by calling Putin a “sincere comrade”. “No-Limits ...
UWI author, historian and political scientist Mehmet Perinçek evaluated the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 16. Exceptionally close How do you evaluate the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Beijing in general? Recently, there has been an exceptionally close relationship between China and Russia. After the presidential election, Xi Jinping ...