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The functioning of the US political system is debatable

Recent events in the political life of the United States raise more and more questions about whether the authorities in Washington can function normally. Passions in the American Congress have heated up over the adoption of the next budget: the national debt is huge. Three months ago, it amounted to 32 trillion dollars; now it has passed the mark of 33.5 trillion dollars (in one day the Americans increase their debt load by an amount equal to the entire national debt of Russia). This situation worries practically the whole world, especially considering America’s share in the world GDP…

Veniamin Popov

What does the Movie “Oppenheimer” have to do with Ukraine and the North Pole?

One of the interesting twists of history is what Joseph Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria, Head of the NKVD (later renamed the KGB) of the USSR, knew about the making of the American atomic bomb, and when? Why is it worth-remembering that initially Stalin and others in the NKVD, the former Soviet intelligence service, had dismissed the intelligence reports of some American secret weapon, an atomic bomb, as being intentional disinformation and not a priority? The incident underscores the importance of robust intelligence analysis and the need for leaders to trust and act upon credible intelligence information. It is…

Henry Kamens

The US Gerontocracy on Death’s Bed: Fate of Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell and the Demise of the USSR

Does the US need to learn from the USSR, what can happen when top leaders get too old to govern? Age and experienced leadership are not identical concepts, especially when it comes to the American political leadership. The question that more and more Americans are asking these days is “Why do politicians want to hang on so long, when they are in obvious mental and physical decline, and why they don’t want to turn the reins over to a newer generation?”…

Henry Kamens

The Scourge of the Swastika

Christopher Black

The conduct of the USA in the Asia-Pacific Region raises many questions as it clearly neglects its relations with ASEAN

Nguyen Kien Van

The Anglo-Saxons play the Indian card

Fernando Gaillardo

Behind Washington’s growing love for the Global South

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Some observations on the US President’s most recent international trip

Vladimir Terehov

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