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Azawad in the making?
There has been much hype of Russia’s move into Africa, but the reality is that African nations mainly rely on Western and Chinese trade and investments. Countries such as Mali and Burkina Faso need Russian weapons, but the rest of the country requires aid and rational arguments put forward to find agreement when neither side…
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Putin is likely to retain power, “but”
There is a joke about time zones that ends with Putin complaining that he had commiserated with Prigozhin’s family before the plane had taken off. It is a great joke, which was told by the Prime Minister of Albania. But the element of truth is hard to miss, it is widely recognised that Prigozhin was…
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Xi’s G20 excuses
Xi Jinping has disappeared and he is not going to India for the G20 next week. Is there more intrigue or is it a matter of tension between India and China that excuses him from the summit. But like everything in China, you just do not know what the truth is, just a matter of…
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Is Libya going to find peace
Can Libya ever unite in peace again seems to be a thorny issue among those that question the countries instability. It has been twelve years since the overthrow of Ghadaffi, but there is an impasse that has been magnified by the country being split in two by two opposing governments. The politics of the east…
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Russia – Part two
Russia is moving from the argument of a Special Police operation towards a state that imposes broad security measures against its citizens. Though there is support for the war in Ukraine, opinion polls show that the majority of Russian’s not only support the war but also Putin and the government. Reactionary elements of the state…
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Putin’s mis-step
In the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin believed that the troops would be welcomed, because he believed that “Ukraine’s pro-Russian citizens had been driven underground and persecuted for their convictions.” The idea of liberator was central to the thinking of the Russian state, but the Ukrainians distinguished themselves, not just…
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