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As you know, in July this year at the NATO summit in Vilnius, the key topic was the issue of the alliance’s enlargement and the Turkish parliament’s decision on Sweden’s membership. President Erdoğan at that time promised his allies to take a favorable view of Sweden’s status in NATO, provided Stockholm supports Turkey’s accession to the EU. In other words, the Turkish leader did not emphasize the problem of Kurdish separatism in Vilnius and did not strictly adhere to the list of extradition to Ankara of Kurdish extremists who had found refuge in Sweden…

The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) was hailed as a major geopolitical breakthrough immediately after it was announced at the 2023 G20 summit held in India in the second week of September. The IMEC is a trade corridor that will connect India with Europe via sea and rail links passing through the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel. Most political pundits from around the world saw this development as an “obvious” alternative to China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI)…

The current leaders of the Western European powers, acting under the guidance of Washington, for years have been going out of their way to impose new sanctions on Russia. By going into an anti-Russian frenzy, they have actually begun to harm themselves. This is best illustrated by the example of the United Kingdom and Germany. As the Saudi newspaper Arab News noted on September 13 this year, “the vast majority of people in the UK agree that the country is broken,” that it has reached a stage of decline that infects virtually every aspect of British life, from crumbling schools to a shortage of health practitioners and striking doctors and nurses…