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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…