Tag: Cold War
Myanmar
Myanmar’s instability deepens as the world watches silently
Myanmar’s stability has eroded significantly since the 2021 military coup. But the coordinated attacks by multiple separatist and pro-democracy groups in late 2023 has...
Defense & Security
When it comes to defense, the politicians must listen to those who know best – the generals
The halls of power are walked by people who know little, care even less and yet have the right to supersede and ignore the advice of those who know better.
Democracy & Human Rights
My message from Hiroshima
On Saturday, August 6, I proudly stood with Japan’s Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, and the
people of Hiroshima in memory of an unprecedented catastrophe.Seventy-seven years...
Op-Eds & Guest Contributors
Is the Ukraine ‘crisis’ just another US charade?
Today we face an avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense.We are being...
Defense & Security
An appeasement policy: How Georgia lost its friends and got closer to its enemy
As tensions on the Ukrainian border have reached a fever pitch over the last several weeks, the overwhelming majority of NATO and the members...
Defense & Security
Ukraine is the big loser in the new Cold War between Russia and the West
The above is without question a provocative headline. The main question, however, is 'why draw such a negative conclusion from the current geopolitical confrontation...
Archive
Why Biden shouldn’t use the ‘Summit for Democracy’ to start more Cold Wars
On December 9 and 10, President Biden will host a virtual “Summit for Democracy.” The gathering will bring together leaders from 110 countries who...
Defense & Security
The ‘European Army’ scheme is just a cover for France to get back into the big power game
The idea of a so-called 'European Army' has come in and out of fashion in the Brussels bubble for about 20 years. After each...
Afghanistan
On 9/11, it’s time for a reckoning and reflection of decades of failed US national security policy
A reckoning with America’s failed national security policy is long overdue.Our calamitous misadventures in the Middle East and the global financial collapse of 2008...
Afghanistan
Afghanistan 2021: An extremist ‘stammtisch’
Everybody has a favorite bar or coffee house. A place you can go to seek solace or connect with old friends. In some cases,...
Afghanistan
A monster miracle from a cave
In the history of sport, there have been many unforgettable victories. True testaments of teams achieving the unthinkable. The 1980 Winter Olympics men’s hockey...
Afghanistan
The legacy of failure in Afghanistan starts in 1979, not 2001
A decade ago, John Lamberton Harper, a professor of US Foreign Policy and European Studies at Johns Hopkins in Bologna, Italy published an indispensable...
Analysis
The status of Crimea is far more complicated than the Western media admits
“If there were a moral to be drawn from the Crimean War which might apply to the present it would be this: in a...
Afghanistan
Afghanistan and the Great Powers
Can Afghanistan's never-ending internal conflict be resolved by the efforts of great and regional powers that have numerous conflicting strategic and global goals? Is...
Analysis
Did Biden draw a line in the sand with or legitimize Putin in Geneva?
When President Joe Biden arrived at the historic Villa la Garange in Geneva for a much-anticipated meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, he triumphantly...
Albania
Ukraine’s chances to join NATO are slim to none, despite Zelensky’s claims
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict was once again back in the headlines in April when people across the world followed massive troop build-ups in and around...
Archive
Gorbachev at 90: The man who awkwardly pushed humanity forward
As a Soviet teenager growing in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv in the mid-1980s, I was a happy camper. I was going to a...
Analysis
The last deception, worse than the first*
To start with, Donald Trump lost the election. Whether the Democrats cheated or not is irrelevant as Trump was in power and could have...
China
A revived role for the US in Northern Greece requires dynamic action and focus
As a former US diplomat who served as Consul General in Thessaloniki, it’s impossible not to become a lifelong booster of the Thessaloniki International...
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