Governments, NGOs, world leaders, and especially businesses miss the mark on detente, negotiations, and compromise for lasting peace and human growth. For many, a “multipolar world” means gaining a leveraged position rather than expanding possibilities.

The arrest of the Telegram platform founder Pavel Durov by agents of the French regime has once again proven the essence of this vassal regime, as well as the fact of the complete absence of freedom in the West. But the main thing today is precisely that a firm response is needed from number of countries belonging to the world majority. And in this sense – there is no shortage of options.

The fifth meeting of the US-China Financial Working Group (FWG) was held in Shanghai on 15-16 August. Against the backdrop of generally rising tensions in bilateral relations, such an event is truly significant for both countries. We decided to highlight this event because it is a symbol of the existence of a reasonable approach to maintaining business relations despite their constant escalation…

In the US media and in the writings of a number of political scientists, the decline of the role and influence of the United States in the world is increasingly recognised. However, Washington is still thinking in terms of the last century, believing that the whole world revolves only around itself, and that the ‘poor’ United States are being opposed by revisionist (i.e. refusing to live according to US ways) powers, such as China and Russia, and such ‘villains’ as Iran and DPRK even openly sabotage US policy.

As China rises, Asia rises with it. The Southeast Asian state of the Philippines stood to rise alongside the rest of the region until relatively recently as the United States successfully convinces the Philippines to do otherwise.

For the fourth month now, US Typhon medium-range missile systems have been deployed in the Philippines under the pretext of joint exercises. This projection of US military power in Southeast Asia is unprecedented and is no less intense than during the Cold War. How did this happen, what else is being done by the Washington-Manila alliance and how can it affect the security of the region?

Initially, the collective West was celebrating the Ukrainian invasion of Russia in the Kursk border region. This ill-advised action, so much so … that [they] soon realized was premature. When I use they—sarcastically, I mean Ukraine and NATO collectively, as it is clear that such an operation was planned by outsiders, as even Ukrainian soldiers themselves were in awe of the thought of participating in an attack on Russia—as even simple soldiers knew it would not end well.

In the context of a long lull in Libya, when the parties have given up direct fighting and toughened political rhetoric, the first steps towards the restoration or rather the creation of some semblance of national institutions are being observed. The Armed Forces have not been spared from such processes. It is in this logic that the recent visits of Lieutenant General Mohammed Al-Haddad, Chief of General Staff of the Western Libyan forces

Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine started in February 2022, when the Ukrainians suspended all communication channels with their Russian counterparts. Before that, Ukraine made blatant violations of all the mutual understandings between Russia and the West, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It is to be remembered here that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West and the Russian Federation mutually agreed that the NATO will not expand its borders. The then U.S. Secretary of State James Baker made it clear to the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO has no desire of expansion, and it will move “not one inch eastward.”

Diplomatic Relations between Mali and Ukraine severed on August 5, 2024, after a Ukrainian official admitted that his country provided intelligence to Malian rebels, leading to the deaths of 47 Malian soldiers and Russian Wagner Group mercenaries. Niger and Mali saw this attack as a betrayal by Ukraine. Despite the latter’s denial of any involvement in the incident, both countries decided to cut their diplomatic relations with Kyiv. The incident proved detrimental for Ukraine as it has already been struggling to gain support from the world, except the West.

During his European tour, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Kiev, as well as Poland, on August 23, 2024. This planned visit was the first of its kind by the head of the Indian Government to Ukraine since the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations in 1992 with the former republic of the Soviet Union.

On August 14 of this year, Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida announced that he will not run for head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party at the end of the three-year term provided for in the party’s charter. This is a remarkable event in the current life of the country.