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Last week, Washington finally allowed Ukraine to use American equipment to attack some targets inside Russia. Heeding the signal from the United States, Chancellor Olaf Scholz dropped his resistance and approved the same for German-made weapons. The Western approach to foreign and security policy in Europe consistently follows three principles: ignore the problem and do nothing, make the wrong […]

  The track record of economic sanctions against Russia has proven what everybody in the West knew, or should have known, from the outset: this is a dubious weapon. The threat of sanctions had provided zero deterrence against Moscow’s ambition to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since the war, the subsequent implementation of sanctions […]

  An airstrike targeted an Iranian consulate in Damascus early last week, killing seven military officers, including two generals serving in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Revolutionary Guards, an elite military entity crucial for the Iranian regime’s hold on power, ruthlessly suppress any opposition within the country and support terrorist activities abroad. The airstrike […]

  After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it appeared that the United States and Europe had one clear policy toward Russia. NATO was again united and strong. Although military supplies for Kyiv were initially lackluster, unity prevailed on sanctions and support. The Ukrainians were defending themselves bravely and Russia faced a military […]

In late April 2023, United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan disclosed the new global economic guidelines that the current administration would pursue during its remaining months and, if secured, the next term. In contrast with the past, the guidelines’ creators believe that free market-recipes are no longer good enough to respond to the challenges […]