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- As if on Cue
Just yesterday I again recommended that Georgia aim to internationalize its conflict with Russia over Abkhazia and South Ossetia as its only hope for eventual victory is diplomatic and not military. Today, the headlines seem to confirm that either the Georgian Foreign Ministry readers our blog or that this blogger should perhaps go work for [...]
- Kissinger Speaks
... on Iraq and the Iraq War, NATO and the EU, Pakistan and Iran, radical Islam and pacifism, George Bush and Obama and McCain, objective reality and moral considerations, and plenty more.
The interview is short but the content is real—highly recommended reading (and the articles comes from Der Spiegel of all places). To quote [...]
- Owning the Issues
Germany’s moderately left Social Democrats (SPD) are proposing sanctions on what they deem to be wasteful American products, i.e. those that use too much energy such as cars. This comes of course as both France and Germany oppose new EU legislation that would reduce CO2 emissions from cars.
However, hypocrisy aside, the SPD’s effort sheds light [...]
- Could Kosovo Make or Break Europe?
Almost two decades after the Cold War and with some looking to Europe to play a larger role in world affairs, a pesky little province of two million just refuses to go away. Eight years after the Kosovo War in which NATO troops largely consisting of the US and Germany intervened to protect Kosovar Albanians [...]
- What is the EU?
A Question of perspective:
How do you view the European Union?
1) An attempt to build a supranational government to compete with the United States.
2) A kind alternative to a third world war which struggles to redefine Europe, its government, values and culture.
3) A free trade agreement spiraling out of control into a bulky bureaucracy.
- Echoes of colonialism
Last month Moscow snatched coveted energy diversification from Europe’s poor, shivering hands by getting the Kazakh president to promise continued gas exportation through Russian infrastructure. PINR comes to a conclusion I think we can all agree with:
Russia was the big winner in the agreement: Putin demonstrated his ability to outmaneuver Europe, sending another signal of [...]
