The Global Eye
TODAY IN EVIDENCE An interesting look at the war in Ukraine concerns the movements of the national Orthodox Churches and their progressive detachment from Moscow. It is the turn, writes Paul Globe for The Jamestown Foundation, of the Republic of Latvia (Moscow Losing Another Nation’s Orthodox Church—This Time Latvia’s) The US military is preparing for […]
“Open and complex space, we are for dialogue between different ideas – There are no unique sources for an analyst” We report, from Defense News, the news that German government will work to ease its restrictive export policy when pursuing joint weapon programs with European partners. This is complex news because it touches on many […]
“Open and complex space, we are for dialogue between different ideas – There are no unique sources for an analyst” The Human Development Report 2021-22 (UNDP) is a strategic document of great importance. The central point, which directly affects our reflections on the world, is what is called the “uncertainty complex”. Constituting it, is said, […]
“Open and complex space, we are for dialogue between different ideas – There are no unique sources for an analyst” We cannot look at the political sustainability of the world with the eye of fear. If, as Ken Heydon writes for East Asia Forum, for Liz Truss China is more of a threat than a […]
TODAY IN EVIDENCE (Defense – Military – Security) September 9, 2022. Stephen Losey, Defense News. The Pentagon’s top acquisition official said Friday he is hopeful a temporary halt to F-35 deliveries, prompted by the discovery that a key magnet in the fighter was made with raw materials that came from China, can be resolved soon. DoD eyes […]
Queen Elizabeth II September 9, 2022. Simon Heffer, The Interpreter. Queen Elizabeth II’s role in foreign affairs may appear to be a contradiction in terms. As a constitutional monarch, she could take no initiative in these or any other political matters, but had to act on the advice of her prime ministers, whether in Britain […]
WORLDS (Afghanistan) September 7, 2022. Peter Mills, ISW. The Taliban government is struggling to defeat the National Resistance Front (NRF), a growing anti-Taliban insurgency in northeastern Afghanistan. Taliban leaders appointed a new slate of military commanders to lead anti-NRF operations, indicating dissatisfaction with the previous commanders’ performance. Political and ethnic divisions are also likely undermining […]
TODAY IN EVIDENCE (UN) September 7, 2022. Kamal Malhotra, ORF. The growth of illiberal nationalism in the US and the deepening of already illiberal nationalist states like Russia and China are compromising the UN’s key mandates and thwarting serious progressive reform. Will illiberal nationalism undermine much-needed UN reform? (Ukraine) September 7, 2022. Ronja Ganster, Jacob Kirkegaard, […]
WORLDS Afghanistan September 6, 2022. Heather Barr, HRW. The US “Afghanistan War Commission,” created in December 2021 to examine “key strategic, diplomatic, and operational decisions” the US made in Afghanistan, and to develop “lessons learned and recommendations for the way forward,” is beginning its work. One priority should be to examine US government pledges on women’s […]
EVIDENCE September 2, 2022. Carlo Rebecchi intervista l’Ambasciatore Umberto Vattani, Giornale Diplomatico. L’eco internazionale della morte di Michail Sergeevič Gorbačëv non è destinata a spegnersi dato il rilevante ruolo che ha avuto nella storia. E questo nonostante che nel suo Paese si cerchi di tenerlo in un cono d’ombra, a continuare a dimenticarlo. Solo l’Occidente […]
WORLDS Afghanistan September 3, 2022. Abdulkader Sinno, East Asia Forum. When the school year began in Afghanistan in March 2022, journalists were poised to cover the return of girls to secondary education. Taliban leaders in Kabul had committed to allowing separate education for girls so long as they followed the Taliban-mandated dress code. Instead, the cameras […]
TODAY IN EVIDENCE The “President” Gorbachev. From Project Syndicate and The Strategist – The greatest democrat Russia ever had Gorbachev and the end of the cold war. From Atlantic Council – Without Gorbachev, Reagan wouldn’t have won the Cold War Meeting of the Atlantic Council with the Minister of Defense of Denmark – A conversation […]