At the end of each brutal day in the Palestine, the world chorus is pointing a finger of accusation not just at Israel and its atrocious treatment of Palestinians under apartheid or at the hard core of Hamas resistance in Gaza but — you guessed — at the American administration that has lost its mantle…
The Biden administration has already brought a certain measure of normalcy to the management of foreign policy, that is to say upon the duopoly of two nations that challenge the national interests of the United States – Russia and China. Strategically, both of them are classified as “competitors” of the United States, a definition that…
Listening to President Biden’s inaugural speech, not many have noticed an important fact, that in that speech he made scant reference to the foreign policy of the United States under his stewardship. Understandingly, Joseph Biden is fundamentally concerned with the urgent task of regenerating American democracy after a period of obscurantism and hostility toward the…
If any American has enough time and curiosity to search for reactions overseas, particularly in Europe, to the chaos that rages in present-day America, he or she will not be surprised to learn that foreigners do not understand why Americans cannot have the orderly and reliable counting of votes that should be expected in a…
In the torrent of explosive revelations contained in the book by the former National Security Adviser John Bolton, there is one quote that appears to be almost an afterthought but that in reality is terrifying not just for the European allies but for all those Americans who grew up with the understanding that the United…
The parliamentary elections in Europe have a surprise winner but it will take time for many, particularly in the U.S. Congress, to digest its impact. The new force in the European Union is that of the Greens, protagonists of an electoral triumph in Germany where they won more than 20 percent of the vote. This…
The European elections of May 26 are keeping many European citizens breathless but at the same time reality tells us that the voting will be a waste of breath. The epochal charge of the sovereign nationalistic forces that threaten Europe from its eastern gate will not disrupt the orderly democratic course of united Europe, no…
I happened to be in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, just a couple of days before a political miracle. A 45-year old woman, Zuzana Caputova, a European-minded environmentalist, was elected president. She beat the candidate of the ruling party Smer-SD, Maros Sefcovic, the energy commissioner of the European Union. The significance of Caputova’s victory is…
It is reasonable to suspect that neither President Trump nor Vice President Pence has even heard about the Estrada Doctrine, formally adopted by the United States and other nations in 1980. According to this doctrine, the recognition of a government must be based upon its de facto existence rather than its legitimacy. It was proclaimed…
Strange things are happening in “Old Europe,” as Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld famously called it in 2003. At that time, transatlantic differences were over Iraq, when two major members of “Old Europe” condemned the war against Saddam Hussein that was destined to open a disastrous Pandora’s box in the Middle East. Now, once again, the…
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