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America and Russia, Part Two: The Far Side of Progress
America and Russia, Part Two: The Far Side of Progress Two weeks ago, in the first part of this sequence of posts, we explored the way that Oswald Spengler’s insights into the cycles of history can be used not only to make sense of the past, but also to get some idea of the shape […]
Germany Clashes With The U.S. Over Energy Geopolitics
Germany Clashes With The U.S. Over Energy Geopolitics The United States and the European Union (EU) are at odds over more than just the Iran nuclear deal – tensions surrounding energy policy have also become a flashpoint for the two global powerhouses. In energy policy, the U.S. has been opposing the Gazprom-led and highly controversial […]
Saudi Arabia Calls The End Of Russia’s Oil Prowess
Saudi Arabia Calls The End Of Russia’s Oil Prowess Saudi Arabia has not only called the end of Russia’s prominence as a global oil behemoth, but anticipates that Russia’s oil exports “will have declined heavily if not disappeared” within the next 19 years, Mohammed bin Salman said in a recent interview with Bloomberg. When asked […]
China & Japan Dump Treasuries As Dollar’s Reserve Status Slumps To 5 Year Lows
China & Japan Dump Treasuries As Dollar’s Reserve Status Slumps To 5 Year Lows Treasury International Capital flows showed Brazil the biggest buyer of Treasurys in August (followed by Ireland and France), but it was China and ‘ally’ Japan that dumped the most Treasurys in the month… Brazil is Steve Mnuchin’s best friend… As China […]
Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics: How the US Weaponizes Them to Accuse China of Debt Trap Diplomacy
Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics: How the US Weaponizes Them to Accuse China of Debt Trap Diplomacy With China and Russia named as the two greatest threats to continuing American hegemony end of last year, the velvet gloves have come off the Washington establishment, baring their knuckles against the Middle Kingdom in plain view of […]
NATO Coordinates Information War on Russia
NATO Coordinates Information War on Russia The US, Britain and other NATO allies upped the ante this week with a coordinated campaign of information war to criminalize Russia. Moscow dismissed the wide-ranging claims as “spy mania”. But the implications amount to a grave assault recklessly escalating international tensions with Russia. The accusations that the Kremlin […]
A Glimpse Beyond the Unipolar Moment
A Glimpse Beyond the Unipolar Moment “Potentially the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia and perhaps Iran, an ‘anti-hegemonic’ coalition, united not by ideology but by complementary grievances” —Zbigniew Brzezinski Are we reaching the penultimate and petulant back-end of the American Empire’s Unipolar Moment, a denouement hastened by a raft […]
India Yet To Figure Out Way To Pay for Iranian Oil Imports
India Yet To Figure Out Way To Pay for Iranian Oil Imports India hasn’t worked out yet a payment system for continued purchases of crude oil from Iran, Subhash Chandra Garg, economic affairs secretary at India’s finance ministry, said on Friday. India’s Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has conveyed the message that his country would continue […]
Oil’s $133 Billion Black Market
Oil’s $133 Billion Black Market Oil is still the world’s leading energy source, with growing demand, a fluctuating pricing system, and much of its production in volatile regions. The oil market’s value is larger than the world’s valuable raw metal markets combined, with an annual production valued at US$1.7 trillion. A flourishing black market is […]
Muli-Polar Political Project Pushed Forward by Putin In India
Muli-Polar Political Project Pushed Forward by Putin In India I have to wonder when Russian President Vladimir Putin sleeps. He’s busier than any other leader, traveling the globe while consistently changing the board state geopolitically. While everyone, including me, has had their eye on the turmoil in U.S. political circles over the past couple of […]
The Self-Defeating US Empire
The Self-Defeating US Empire Trump is trying to square a globalized world through a national-based American capitalism. It won’t work. Former President Teddy Roosevelt (1901-09) described the essence of US foreign policy as “speaking softly while carrying a big stick”. Under the incumbent president, Donald Trump, it seems to be all about “speaking loudly”. What […]
The Perfect Storm Bringing China And Russia Together
The Perfect Storm Bringing China And Russia Together During the Cold War, China and the Soviet Union regarded one another as strategic adversaries. Relations between Beijing and Moscow, however, have significantly improved over the years. Besides political alignment, the countries have complementary economies; China has an insatiable appetite for the raw materials which Russia has […]
US Officials Say Russia To “Seize” Syria’s Oilfields As Moscow Presses Europe On Reconstruction
US Officials Say Russia To “Seize” Syria’s Oilfields As Moscow Presses Europe On Reconstruction Russia is attempting to woo European countries like Germany into a program of reconstruction cooperation in Syria, where broad swathes of the country have been destroyed through seven years of grinding proxy war; however, Pentagon officials have charged Russia with wanting […]
Does the United States strive for a new Cold War?
Does the United States strive for a new Cold War? Donald Trump’s administration regularly increases military presence in Central Europe. The currently discussed idea is to create an American permanent military base in Poland, that is to say, a further shift of the US military presence towards the Russian border. The question arises whether, through […]
Trident Juncture 2018 Is About to Kick Off: NATO’s Big War Games Near Russia’s Borders Never End
Trident Juncture 2018 Is About to Kick Off: NATO’s Big War Games Near Russia’s Borders Never End The NATO-led Trident Juncture 2018 (TRJE18) exercise that is to be held in October and November is the largest massive and coordinated show of force since the Cold War. It will primarily be hosted by Norway. The training event will largely take […]
