President Trump’s approach to diplomacy has kept the world guessing as to what his next steps will be. And that has created a highly volatile and potentially dangerous situation. He has issued threats to Brazil, India, the EU and many others on trade tariffs, but the most alarming escalation has been against Russia. At the end of this week, on […]
Read moreJosep Borrell, the foreign affairs chief of the European Union from 2019-2024, wrote a scathing indictment of European nations in an op-ed published Aug. 1 in the Guardian: “There can be little doubt that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza, slaughtering and starving civilians after systematically destroying all the infrastructure in the territory”, Borrell wrote. “In the meantime, […]
Read moreIn a statement on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Accords on Aug. 1, 1975, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated the Russian call for a new security architecture for Europe and Russia in the spirit of 1975. However, he also had some pointed remarks on the Organisation for Security and Coooperation in Europe (OSCE), which grew […]
Read moreDmitry Trenin is the Director of the Moscow-based Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) University, and a widely acknowledged expert on Russia’s foreign policy. He was a featured speaker at the international Schiller Institute conference in Berlin on July 12, 2025. At the Berlin event, Dmitry Trenin focused his remarks, delivered live […]
Read moreThe main argument put forth by the architects of the European Union to create a supranational entity was the idea that only as a unified entity could Europe match major powers, such as the United States, Russia, or China. This argument was parroted by pro-EU politicians to justify the increasing transfer of sovereignty from nation states to the Brussels bureaucracy. […]
Read moreSince the summer of 2016, the pervasive political chatter about Donald Trump’s campaign centered around the theme of “Russia, Russia, Russia”, and the charge that his election victory was due to covert “collusion” between Trump and Russian intelligence operatives. The public was told there was “unanimous” agreement in the Intelligence Community (IC) that the Russian intervention included hacking of the […]
Read moreSome of the tariffs Donald Trump has imposed on nations are ostensibly based on trade considerations, but others are of a directly political nature, aimed at “punishing” the presumed offenders. On July 31, for example, the U.S. President announced tariffs of 25% on goods imported from India, in addition to “additional penalties”, for purchasing Russian oil and weapons. Asked for […]
Read moreThe head of Russia’s space agency, Dmitry Bakanov, arrived in the United States on July 28, with a delegation from Roscosmos, for the first face-to-face meeting with the head of the U.S. space agency in eight years. The delegation visited NASA’s Johnson Space Center as well as the Mission Control Center for the American segment of the International Space Station […]
Read moreOn July 17, Stellaria, a French startup born out of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and Schneider Electric, raised €23 million to build a very promising new kind of small modular nuclear reactor (SMR). With a capacity of 540 MW (thermal) and 250 MW (electric), this SMR, called “the Stellarium,” will be a fourth-generation “fast neutron molten salt design”. […]
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