STRATEGIC ALERT Service

The upcoming G7 meeting and the Biden-Putin summit on June 16 in Geneva mark a phase in which the trans-Atlantic war party is considering making some concessions to avoid completely alienating the Western partners (as with Nord Stream 2) and thus maintain control over the situation. However, the strategic dynamic has not changed. Russian President Putin, for his part, told […]

Despite several contacts in the last weeks between top representatives of Presidents Biden and Putin, which were described as “business-like” and “cordial”, the White House has continued to adhere to a confrontational approach, even framing the June 16 summit as one in which the United States will be representing the “democracies”, standing up against an autocratic Russia. An op ed […]

After over one year of the economic havoc wreaked by the pandemic, the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum was record-breaking this year both in terms of the number of participants and of the total values of the economic deals signed. A leading topic of discussion in several of the many panels held from June 2 to 5 was the implicit […]

Inflation is already a global reality. Consumer prices in April had risen by 2% in the Eurozone (even Germany is at 2.5%), by 3.3% on average in the OECD and 4.2% in the U.S. The Eurozone figures challenge the ECB policy target of “close to, but below 2%”, raising the question of whether the Frankfurt-based bank will change monetary policy. […]

NATO is no longer merely a military alliance engaged in mutual defense of its Atlantic members, it is now a politicalmilitary alliance with concerns and interests across the globe. Such was the message put out by its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in a virtual speech on June 4 sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the German Council on Foreign Relations […]

Relations between the European Union and China have been frozen, if not totally ruptured, since the imposition of sanctions by the European Union, the Biden Administration, the United Kingdom and Canada on March 22 over the phony issue of human rights violations in Xinjiang, which were followed by counter-sanctions from China and then the May 22 vote by the European […]

Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of British secret service MI6, has surfaced yet again to peddle the line that the Covid19 virus was likely “man-made”, and had escaped from the research laboratory in Wuhan. Back in June 2020, he was one of the first to make the claim, while demanding that China be forced to pay reparations worldwide for […]

Ten days before Mexico’s June 6 midterm elections, London’s inimitable The Economist published a cover feature headlined “Mexico’s False Messiah; Voters Should Curb Mexico’s Power-Hungry President.” In its typical nasty style, the weekly laid out why the City of London considered ensuring the defeat of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party in these elections to be a matter of […]

Twitter, as we know, decided to ban former President Donald Trump from using its social platform for time memorial, but Facebook, which suspended Trump’s accounts on Jan 7, 2021, has now decided that a permanent ban is too harsh a penalty, and has agreed to reduce his sentence to just two years. After that time, if Facebook determines that the […]

It was finally announced on May 25 that Presidents Biden and Putin would held their first face to face meeting on June 16 in Geneva. The announcement came after weeks of speculation and rumors during which relations between the two countries continued to plunge. Nonetheless, both sides expressed the hope that the talks would lead to a more stable world, […]