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Russia Sanctions
The sanctions against Russia will remain in place for far longer than the duration of the war. But who is better placed to endure protracted economic warfare: Russia or the West?
By John Laughland
World
The Future is Male or None
“The future is female” is often seen in the West. The long march through the institutions has been not only of the Left but also of women taking over key positions in Western governments and institutions.
By Max Denken
World
30 Years After Maastricht
The Maastricht summit took two fateful decisions which were to affect the continent for a generation. The creation of the Euro currency and the recognition of the independence of Croatia and Slovenia and thus the break up of Yugoslavia. The single currency and the destruction of Yugoslavia were both geopolitical acts designed to push hard into the gap which was opening up with the collapse of Russian power. Built in the Cold War and dramatically enlarged after the end of it, the EU is nothing but an American bridgehead on the European continent.
By John Laughland
World
Russian Invasion of Ukraine
For some weeks now, we have been told that Russia is about to invade Ukraine. However, the same governments now warning that Russia is about to invade Ukraine in 2022 said that Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. But if Russia had already invaded in 2014 or 2015, then how can it now be about invade again in 2022? If you have already invaded a country and still have troops there, you cannot ‘invade’ it again. The warnings of an imminent invasion are a means of putting maximum pressure on the Germans not to formalize the opening of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
By John Laughland
World
EU Strategic Compass
Since 1992 with the signing of the Maastricht treaty the EU is seeking to become relevant. These endeavours so far have only led to the opposite. The EU is completely irrelevant on a geopolitical level.
By John Laughland
World
The historic humiliation of the US in Afghanistan
When in 1842 the British negotiated safe passage for 4,500 soldiers and 12,000 civilians out of Kabul - they took the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan because the shah they had installed in power in 1839 was struggling in vain against an ever more dangerous and violent insurrection waged by the defeated regime - the rebels agreed.
By John Laughland
World
How the Pentagon created Wuhan
The sensational revelation that the US military gave tens of millions of dollars to fund the ‘gain of function’ research into coronaviruses at the Wuhan Laboratory of Virology in China has gone up like a lead balloon. So far at least, it is a news story which has ‘no legs’.
By David Engels
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