Germany’s governing Social Democrat Party (SPD) has its headquarters in Berlin in the Willy-Brandt-Haus. The website of the building describes it as “not a party castle but an open house, open for political and cultural encounters” (all translations by YS.). This is a clear reference to Willy Brandt’s legendary Ostpolitik – and is used today by those opposing the German ...
United World International expert, Moscow University lecturer, historian and political scientist Dr. Mehmet Perinçek spoke to Sputnik about Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, following his death. Perinçek stated the following: “We can describe Gorbachev as the last link in a chain, because the Soviet Union did not collapse only due to Gorbachev’s actions. The Soviet Union’s ...
UWI expert Onur Sinan Güzaltan evaluated the future of the Ukraine crisis, the role of Europe and Turkey’s mediation efforts for Sputnik Türkiye. The original text can be read here. Below is the text as published by Sputnik Türkiye. UWI expert Güzaltan evaluated Turkey’s mediation efforts in the ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine with the following statements: “Western countries, ...
In the third part of our interview with Adnan Akfırat, author of the book Special Warfare in Pentagon and CIA Documents, we discussed the characteristics of “proxy wars” and the many applications of Special Warfare from Afghanistan to Türkiye. In this chapter on the current objectives of Special Warfare, Adnan Akfırat assessed whether the US has a power commensurate with ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * Perhaps it is a commonplace to say that in the face of the obvious inability of the Ukrainian and NATO governments to achieve success in the war arena, the main war effort has increasingly begun to be waged in the media. Here, the United States and the West still retain a great advantage given the ...
Nearly simultaneously with the Tehran Summit, US President Joe Biden visited the region. What was the outcome of this visit? First of all, I would say this: The US has lost trust in West Asia. To give a couple of examples: that the US-Iran nuclear negotiations did not satisfy Saudi Arabia, the significant withdrawal of US military forces from the ...
The tides of Western public moral evaluation towards the Ukrainian crisis are changing day by day. A report by Amnesty International, Western NGO, published on August, has caused an outcry. The NGO declared that between April and July, its researchers spent weeks investigating sites of Russian air strikes. The report states: “Throughout these investigations, researchers found evidence of Ukrainian forces ...
Yuri Podolyaka, one of Russia’s leading military experts, answered questions from the United World International, on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, and general geopolitical questions from around the world. Podolyaka stated that it is difficult for a state called Ukraine to exist in the upcoming period due to constant provocations from the West, and that Ukraine poses a threat to ...
The Turkish and Russian presidents are going to held a meeting in the city of Sochi on August 5. This will be their second meeting in a short time, after having gathered in the Astana Summit in Tehran recently. Following that summit, Türkiye’s president Erdoğan had stated that Russian president Putin “had a number of interesting proposals”. Both countries are ...
1. Hunger as part of the rules-based international order From the US Secretary of State to the German Foreign Minister, from the British magazine of Economist to the even the Pope, all Western leaders have turned into spokespeople of the world’s hungry. No day goes by without one or several of them warning of global famine. When Western politicians decry ...