Multiple European leaders including Angela Merkel have used Donald Trump’s exit from the JCPOA (aka Iran nuclear deal) as a means of trying to assert European independence vis-a-vis the United States, particularly in matters of foreign policy and geopolitics. With EU leaders intent on working with Iran to preserve the […]
Europe’s High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini has spoken moments after Donald Trump and vowed to preserve the JCPOA in spite of the US. Seeming undeterred by Trump’s threat to sanction countries doing business with Iran whose commerce to be used to help Iran […]
While it was never in question that the JCPOA’s Chinese and Russian parties would stand behind Iran’s claims of full compliance with the deal that are totally backed by the UN and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the European Union, Germany, France and Britain have a history of taking the […]
Armenia’s unconvincing attempts to “balance” between Russia and the West as it moves ever-closer to the pro-American EU might end in failure as the Yerevan protests put pressure on the country’s leadership to more decisively move westward. The Roots Of Armenian Rage The Armenian capital of Yerevan has been rocked […]
Among other things, Donald Trump’s Presidency has provided an opportunity for the US and the wider world to re-educate itself about fundamental principles of war and peace, trade, monetary policy and national identity. This is because, rather than simply try to manage existing trends, Trump has challenged the prevailing orthodoxy […]
In a three week period, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has stood up to the EU and Canada and in so doing, has made it clear that the dignity of the Filipino nation is not for sale to anyone. Far from harming the country economically, Duterte’s moves taken on matters of […]