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On May 26, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi opened the UN Security Council’s special session on “Upholding the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System”. The representatives of many nations of the Global South stressed that although aspects of the UN institutions are in need of reform, the greater problem is the failure to […]

On May 25, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that “a series of systematic strikes” would be launched on military-industrial facilities in Kyiv, including those involved in the production and targeting of drones, as well as on “decision-making centers and command posts”. As a result, all foreign citizens, including diplomats, are advised to leave Kyiv as soon as possible. Russian Foreign […]

Russian President Putin’s state visit to China on May 19-20 delivered confirmation of the close relations between Russia and China, and their shared goals on a number of major international issues. Two important declarations were signed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and his guest, the first of which concerns “the Establishment of a Multipolar World and a New Type of […]

In a lengthy piece on his substack, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter writes: “The mastermind behind this dangerous game of escalation management does not reside in Kiev, but rather in the heart of Perfidious Albion — 85 Albert Embankment, in Vauxhall Cross, London, the gleaming headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, perhaps better known as MI-6. “It is well […]

While the German government escalates its co-belligerence with Kyiv against Russia, a few cracks have emerged in the so far monolithically pro-war liberal establishment. Before a major national televised audience on May 21, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s former security advisor General Erich Vad exposed CDU security spokesman Roderich Kiesewetter, a leading warmonger, of dragging Germany into a war with Russia. This […]

Leaders from NATO member countries have been scrambling to find reassuring explanations for the recent spate of Ukrainian drones that have hit member countries of the Alliance. But not Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, who took the occasion to warn of the clear danger that a major war could break out, perhaps triggered by a minor incident, just because of […]

A new party was inaugurated in Greece on May 21 that could break the slavishly pro-NATO, pro-EU consensus of the New Democracy government led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Named Hope for Democracy, the party is led by Maria Karystianou, a medical doctor who became a national figure as a leader of the families of those killed in the 2023 […]

Ambassador Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian, former Palestinian ambassador to the U.K., Hungary, and Denmark, wrote a lengthy analysis of the regional and international military, geopolitical and economic effects of the war in Iran, on AmmanNet.net on May 21. Ambassador Hassassian, who has endorsed the Oasis Plan during several Schiller Institute conferences and interviews, is now promoting it in other media, […]

After SpaceX successfully launched the third version of its giant Starship rocket on May 22, China launched its Shenzhou-23 to the Tiangong space station on May 24, which rendezvoused with the space station one day later. It’s clear that the new space race has begun. The United States intends to send a man to the Moon by 2028, the last […]

As our editorial board will be attending the Schiller Institute conference in Berlin on May 30-31, and subsequent discussions, the next issue of the Strategic Alert will be dated June 11. We invite our readers to attend that conference in person, if possible, or to view the videos once they are posted on schillerinstitute.com and on the SI pages on […]