German Chancellor Angela Merkel went to St. Petersburg last week for meetings with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. The central question on the table was Germany’s position on NATO expansion, particularly with regard to Ukraine and Georgia. Merkel made it clear at a joint press conference that Germany would oppose NATO membership for both of these countries, and that it would even oppose placing the countries on the path to membership. Since NATO operates on the basis of consensus, any...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Geo politic: A Resurgent Russia
Russia is attempting to reforge its Cold War-era influence in its near abroad. This is not simply an issue of nostalgia, but a perfectly logical and predictable reaction to the Russian environment. Russia lacks easily definable, easily defendable borders. There is no redoubt to which the Russians can withdraw, and the only security they know comes from establishing buffers — buffers which tend to be lost in times of crisis. The alternative is for Russia to simply trust other states to...
Friday, September 5, 2008
Summary of DEBKAfile Exclusives in the Week Ending Aug. 28, 2008
Summary of DEBKAfile Exclusives in the Week Ending Aug. 28, 2008Cutting out US role, new Egyptian-Saudi plan proposes inter-Arab force for Gaza takeover DEBKAfile Exclusive Report23 Aug.: DEBKAfile’s military sources report that a new 11-point scheme, just developed by Saudi King Abdullah and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, provides for the bulk of the 3,000-strong force to be Egyptian.The plan would effectively restore Egypt’s pre-1967 dominion over the Gaza Strip. Hamas is offered...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Russia’s Sphere of Influence Engulfing Kazakhstan
August 26, 2008 From theTrumpet.comKazakhs, watching events in Georgia, seem to be aligning their energy-export policy with Putin’s wishes.Russian tank treads rolling all over Georgia is making another regional country besides Ukraine stand up and take notice: Kazakhstan. Along with other factors, Moscow’s resurging pressure on its former Soviet neighbors has the Central Asian republic considering its options, particularly in one of its most vital sectors: energy.Turkish daily Referans...
Georgia and Kosovo: A Single Intertwined Crisis August 25 2008
August 25, 2008By George FriedmanThe Russo-Georgian war was rooted in broad geopolitical processes. In large part it was simply the result of the cyclical reassertion of Russian power. The Russian empire — czarist and Soviet — expanded to its borders in the 17th and 19th centuries. It collapsed in 1992. The Western powers wanted to make the disintegration permanent. It was inevitable that Russia would, in due course, want to reassert its claims. That it happened in Georgia was simply the...
Saturday, August 23, 2008
The Week in Review
« (PT/Getty Images)The Week in ReviewAugust 23, 2008 From theTrumpet.comRussia’s war against Georgia ripples across continents, Berlin and Moscow are making the pact we’ve been anticipating for decades, and U.S. leaders are realizing what the Trumpet has said for years: America lacks will. Middle EastPakistani President Pervez Musharraf resigned August 18. The Pakistani parliament had initiated impeachment...
Monday, August 11, 2008
A New Russia Many would have believed that the death of the Soviet Union brought about the birth of a new Russia. But one question we should really ask is has Russia really changed? Political Scientist Hans Morgenthau describes Russia's national character. "In Russia the tradition of obedience to the authority of the government and the traditional fear of the foreigner has made large permanent military establishments acceptable to the population"(Politics Among Nations)....
My first post
This is my very first post and i guess i should give you a rundown of what my blog is about. i will post world news events that really matter for our worl...
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