The “Arctic Ocean” or the “Arctic Sea” has turned into one of the major hegemonic conflict areas of the 21st century. The potentiality to connect approximately 75% of the world’s population due to the melting ice, and its rich seabed and living marine resources turns the region into a major arena of great power competition. China’s last year self-definition as ...
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) has been the main oppositional party since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. When Boris Yeltsin was governing Russia, fully capitulating to the West and executing liberal policies that caused great damage to the country, the CPRF was fighting openly and fiercely against the government. The CPRF was taking an antagonistic stance ...
Threatening by nuclear warfare “There is a real possibility that a regional crisis with Russia or China could escalate quickly to a conflict involving nuclear weapons, if they perceived a conventional loss would threaten the regime or state…. In the absence of change, we are on the path, once again, to prepare for the conflict we prefer, instead of one ...
The Corona virus has also undertaken the task of pulling the future into today. What was to happen in the next twenty years takes places in this past year. This includes topics such as the use of Artificial Intelligence in daily life, working from home, distance education and online shopping, each of which should be the subject of a separate ...
The Foreign Policy Department of the US Think Tank Brookings Institute has published a new report on US-Turkey relations. The report, signed by Nicholas Danforth and published in February 2021, is titled “Between Cooperation and Containment: New U.S. Policies for a new Turkey”. The report can be read here. The reports main finding is as follows: “Put simply, the Turkish ...
Vassiliy Anisimov, the Head of the Press Service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate, in an interview to the “United World International” accused Fener (Istanbul) Patriarch Bartholomew of dividing the Orthodox world. Two years ago, the frictions between the two important centers of the Orthodox world came to a head: On the one hand, there is the Fener ...