NATO

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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29

Mar

baltic sea, NATO, Russia

NATO’s Northeastern Expansion Meets Russia’s Northwestern Border

PEJOURNAL - That German warplanes are within immediate range of Russia’s Kaliningrad oblast (and not much further from St. Petersburg, formerly Leningrad) and that Germany is in charge of a permanent battlegroup formation in Lithuania are topical issues as we approach the eightieth anniversary of Germany’s Operation Barbarossa invasion of Soviet Russia in 1941. When the Baltic states and former Soviet republics Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were brought into NATO in 2004, five years after Baltic neighbor Poland, that expansion consolidated the process of turning the Baltic Sea into a NATO one. The above four nations joined NATO members Denmark…

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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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27

Mar

China, Euro-Atlantic, NATO, new coalitions, Russia

Russia’s need to new coalitions

PEJOURNAL - These days and following the imposition of various sanctions by the European Union and the United States of America on Russia under various excuses, there are concerns more than any other time over relations between Moscow and Euro-Atlantic. There is a question that the intensification of tensions would have what impact on the previous cooperation between Kremlin and the West? And more importantly, it would create which challenges for Russia in one hand and the Western coalition in the other? The new Euro-Atlantic order against Russia It is not hyperbole if we say the arrival of Joe Biden…

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07

Mar

geopolitics, NATO, Neo-Eurasianism, Russia, The Mediterranean

Russian Activities and Policies in The Mediterranean District

BY: Danieal Ranjbar  PEJOURNAL - The Mediterranean Sea, one of the key strategic areas, has long played an important role in the greatest international developments, competitions and world wars. The proximity of the Mediterranean Sea to three continents and proximity to many countries has made this region one of the most important and strategic regions with a special geographical location for Russia. The foreign policy of Yeltsin’s presidency was at odds with the aspirations of Russian nationalists who wanted to restore the world’s supreme power. The idea of ​​Neo-Eurasianism and the reconstruction of the lost position in the areas of…

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04

Mar

Academi, Al Bukamal, Blackwater, Canada, CENTCOM, Erbil, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iraq, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO, NATO mission Iraq, United Kingdom, United States

What does NATO want in Iraq?

BY: Valeria Rodriguez PEJOURNAL - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) plans to increase the number of its forces in Iraq with the intention of expanding the organization's training activities in the area as soon as the Covid19 epidemic subsides. Since World War II, the United States had a leading role within the organization, made up of 30 states, being the one that contributes the most to the budget with 22.1 percent, followed by Germany with 14.70 percent, France with 10, 60 percent and the United Kingdom with 9.8 percent. During the Trump administration, the relationship with NATO was somewhat…

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26

Dec

Black Sea, NATO, Russia

NATO-Russia confrontation in the Black Sea

PEJOURNAL - Recent NATO military exercises in the Black Sea, with the active participation of an advanced destroyer as well as US anti-submarine aircraft, have once again raised the issue of NATO-Russia confrontation in Eastern Europe in the media. The recent military exercise focused on "air defense and intelligence cooperation."  The history of this confrontation dates back to July 2016, when a joint NATO-Ukraine maneuver was carried out with the presence of American missile destroyers, as well as the participation of Bulgaria, France, Georgia, Norway, Romania, Spain and Turkey. Russia warned of the security consequences of the maneuver, and immediately…

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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

ceasefire, chess game, Europe, Haftar, Libya, Libya’s Civil War, NATO, Qatar, Russia, Turkey, UN, USA

Libya’s ceasefire: the opening move of a complex chess game.

BY: Begona Arechalde On October 23, the UN body in charge of supervising the peaceful resolution of the Libya’s Civil War, UNSMIL, announced in Geneva that the warring factions have reached a ceasefire agreement. The document, that is just three pages long, summarises the next steps in the de-escalation of the conflict. The UN must monitor the correct implementation of the clauses to prevent internal disputes and third-party interests from sabotaging the progress made. Friday's agreement gives a truce to the poverty-stricken North African country, at war since the ouster of Muammar Qaddafi in a coup orchestrated by NATO and…

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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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