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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…

  • The disappearing Foreign Minister

    It’s been 29 days since Qin Gang disappeared, the Chinese Foreign Minister has not been seen since meeting envoys from Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Russia. Meetings were missed that made his disappearance noticeable, for instance Josep Borrell, the foreign minister of the European Union, Janet Yelland of the US Treasury and also a failure to…

  • Will Ukrainian grain reach the World

    Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine , Ukrainian exports have been seriously disrupted. The Russian Navy blockaded Ukrainian ports for four months and on the 22nd July 2022, Russia came to an agreement brokered by the United Nations and Turkey to open a safe maritime route for Ukrainian grain. But Russia has reneged on…

  • NATO and the Ukrainian question.

    It is highly unlikely that Ukraine will get NATO membership at the moment, but there is a model for Ukrainian membership and that is the German model. Germany was divided after the second World War and got NATO membership, could the same argument be made for Ukrainian membership of NATO?…. However, the German model took…

  • Repatriation of Syrians from Lebanon

    According to Human Rights Watch, between April and May there have been 2000 Syrian refugees forcibly returned to Syria from Lebanon. They were undocumented, but that hides the real reason that Syrian’s are being forcibly returned. Since 2013, donors have disbursed $13 billion for the 1.5 million refugees who have entered Lebanon to escape the…

  • The Syrian problem

    The Middle East welcomed Syria back into the Arab League, and yet the country is still divided through conflict. By welcoming al-Assad back into the fold of the Arab League, Arab leaders who once provided the weapons and finance to oust him have taken a step back from pressuring the regime. If anything it was…