EU

18

Nov

Afghanistan, Belarus, Belarusian-Polish border, EU, POLAND, Refugees, Russia, US

Refugees on the Belarusian-Polish border are victims of Western human rights

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The humanitarian crisis, centered on refugees and refugees, has taken on new dimensions, with thousands of refugees settling on the Belarusian-Polish border in recent days, and Polish authorities preventing them from entering the EU by placing barbed wire and an army on the border. The situation on the border between Belarus and Poland is very difficult, and asylum seekers are facing food and water shortages in the extreme cold, and numerous reports of humanitarian catastrophe are published in these centers every day. A remarkable point in response to this humanitarian catastrophe is the reaction of…

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08

Nov

China, EU, Europe, nuclear submarine, South China Sea, USA

US secrecy over nuclear submarine incident in South China Sea

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - Nearly a month ago, the media reported that a US nuclear submarine had struck rocks under the waters of the South China Sea. The U.S. Army Pacific Fleet said in a statement that one of its fastest nuclear and nuclear submarines crashed into a rock while navigating international waters in the Indo-Pacific region. Since then, the Chinese government has demanded a clear and precise explanation from the United States in connection with the incident, but the US Navy has not yet provided any explanation on how the submarine behaved and continues to be secretive in…

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01

Nov

China, community defense, EU, foreign policy, NATO, Russia, the United States, USA

EU, NATO and the challenges for a foreign policy and community defense policy

BY: Paolo Mauri Translated BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - The need to adopt a common defense and foreign policy has strongly returned to the agenda of the European Union. The triggering cause, or if we want “the straw that broke the camel's back”, was the unilateral management by the United States of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which essentially excluded the Allies belonging to NATO from the decision-making processes of the Kabul evacuation operation. The prodromes of this renewed need had been advanced, as we well know, by French President Emmanuel Macron, who earlier this year stated that Europe needed “strategic…

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19

Sep

AUKUS, Australia, China, EU, France, global insecurity, Israel, NATO, Non‑Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Pooya Mirzaei, Russia, South China Sea, the United States, UK

AUKUS: From breaking the Non‑Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to the global insecurity

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The leaders of the United States, Britain and Australia signed a diplomatic, security and military co-operation agreement targeting the Indo-Pacific region, that is called AUKUS. The key point in AUKUS is that Australia's nuclear submarine program will be the first major project of this pact that will help Australia acquire nuclear submarines. Although the media and political circles claim that the purpose of AUKUS agreement is to counter China's growing influence in the world, a deep look at AUKUS reveals several important points: First; The agreement focuses on Australia's acquisition of a nuclear submarine in…

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06

Sep

Afghanistan, EU, GERMANY, Josep Borrell, NATO, Pooya Mirzaei, USA

Afghanistan’s important lesson for Europe

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who visited Slovenia in a statement welcomed by Germany, said: "Developments in Afghanistan have shown the need to create a common army and defense force of European countries." These positions, which can be considered a sign of Europe's disappointment with the United States and NATO, have been raised while since 1945, the end of World War II, the United States has ruled Europe under the NATO military umbrella and Marshall Plan. Now, given the Taliban developments in Afghanistan and the flight of the United States and NATO from this…

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14

Apr

American Power Crisis, Atlantic, Donald Trump, EU, Europeans, Joe Biden, NATO, The decline of the West, USA

The American Power Crisis: How Europeans See Biden’s America

BY: William Holmes PEJOURNAL - Most Europeans rejoiced in Biden’s victory in the November US presidential election, but did not think he could help the United States return as a leading world leader.Europeans’ attitudes toward the United States have changed. The majority of major member states now think that the US political system is broken and that Europe cannot rely on the United States alone to defend it.They value the systems of the EU and/or their countries much more positively than the United States – and look to Berlin, not Washington, as their most important partner. America’s weakness has geopolitical…

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27

Mar

America, Biden administration, China, EU, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, NATO, Russia, Trump administration, Vladimir Putin, World

America Against the World

BY: Philip Giraldi PEJOURNAL - There are certainly a number of reasons why American government is now only viewed favorably by the Israelis, but totally tone deaf foreign and economic policies have to be right up there in how the world sees Washington. Rather than conform to how other nations are expected to behave, America has elevated “exceptionalism” and “leader of the free world” nonsense to a dogma where it believes itself allowed to behave without restraint in defense of what it claims to be its interests. As all countries act in support of interests, that would at least be…

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28

Nov

EU, Iran, Israel, JCPOA, Joe Biden, Natanz nuclear site, nuclear deal, Trump administration

Biden wants to recover the Iranian nuclear deal (JCPOA) but it’s not that simple

BY:  Paolo Mauri Translated BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - In the electoral program of Joe Biden, president-elect (for now) of the United States, there is the desire to recover the Iranian nuclear deal, the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) wanted by Barack Obama in 2015 and rejected by Donald Trump in May 2018. The treaty was aimed at ensuring that Iranian nuclear development was solely and exclusively aimed at peaceful ends, thus allowing the gradual withdrawal of international sanctions that have almost strangled the country's economy. However, for the United States, re-entering the stretch may not be so simple…

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13

Nov

Baltic Region, baltic sea, EU, NATO, Russian, USA

Russian Policies in Baltic Region

BY: Daniel Ranjbar PEJOURNAL - Russia’s relations with the Baltic states, including Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, have deteriorated since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with Russia and its Western allies blaming Russia for the increase. It should not be overlooked that the differences between Russia and the Baltic states are rooted in the centuries-old history of the inhabitants of the region. Army of Poland and Lituvania occupied Moscow for two years to become the only country in history to conquer Moscow, unlike Napoleon, the leader of France, and Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. The three Baltic republics, Estonia,…

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10

Nov

Africa, America, Atlantic Council, China, COVID-19, EU, foreign policy, Joe Biden, Latin America, Middle East, Multilateralism, NATO, presidency, Trumpism, USA

What does Joe Biden’s presidency mean for America’s role in the world?

BY: Atlantic Council PEJOURNAL - We finally have a winner. After several days of counting votes, former Vice President Joe Biden has defeated President Donald J. Trump in the US presidential election, after the Associated Press called Pennsylvania for the former vice president on November 7.  While Biden may have to contend with a divided Congress to achieve his many domestic priorities, he will have much more power to shape US foreign policy going forward. “Under a Biden presidency, the United States will shift from a ‘with or without us’ approach to a policy that fundamentally believes the United States can achieve more when we work together with partner nations,” Jason Marczak, director of…

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