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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to hold high-level talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her visit to India on February 27-28, 2025.This will be President von der Leyen’s third visit to India and the first time the entire EU College of Commissioners will visit together. The discussions are expected to strengthen bilateral relations between India and the EU,
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Meta’s WhatsApp messaging service has surpassed 45 million users, earning the designation of a “Very Large Online Platform” under the EU’s Digital Services Act. Bloomberg reports: WhatsApp’s open channels, which are feeds affiliated with news outlets o…
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My thesis is that the West doesn’t understand nationalism (any more). It understood it until about the Second World War. The First World War almost shattered our societies, the second one kind of did.Back in 1950 when North Korea attacked South Korea…
Politics in Europe are growing increasingly unstable. The Starmer government in the United Kingdom (UK) is stalled and the German coalition of Gerhard Scholz dissolved, with elections coming. Under French President Emmanuel Macron, the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier lasted barely three months, as it recently collapsed upon a no-confidence vote by a parliament […]
More Political Uncertainties Affecting Europe’s Defense Build-up was originally published on Global Security Review.
The incoming Trump administration will pick up the Ukraine dossier where the outgoing administration left it. As American leadership moves away from election rhetorics and back to the reality of governing, President Trump will attempt to bring the war in Ukraine to a negotiated resolution, but what that might look like is uncertain. The incoming […]
An Endgame in Ukraine was originally published on Global Security Review.
As the Chinese-US relations are tense, the EU’s prudence seems to be a more appropriate and compromising strategy for dealing with China.
The Russian presence in Africa significantly expanded in recent years, especially following the restructuring of the Wagner Group, now renamed Africa Corps. The coups that took place in several African nations over the past two years welcomed the Russian presence. In the previous article, we presented an overview of such developments. Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death in […]
Countering Russia’s Influence in Africa: Strategy and Actions was originally published on Global Security Review.
A concerning trend in Africa is developing. Political instability is increasing. This trend is reflected in military coups that occurred in African countries between 2020 and 2024. For example, Presidential Guard Commander, General Abdourahamane Tiani, led a coup in July 2023 to overthrow Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum. Two coups transpired in Burkina Faso within the […]
Russia’s Influence in Africa: Understanding the Big Picture was originally published on Global Security Review.
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The political consequences.I wrote in 2016 that one shouldn’t quit NATO ASAP when America turns fascist, despite the summer of 1914 experience with Austria-Hungary. We should quit eventually (there’s a 12 month period between quitting and actual…