Russia

29

Mar

Arctic, Atlantic, Baltic, military drills, Russia, Strategic Bombers, USA

US Strategic Bombers Engage in Arctic, Baltic and Atlantic Exercises

PEJOURNAL - U.S. B-2 Spirit bombers concluded their role in what US European Command calls an historic Bomber Task Force deployment to Europe amid unprecedented and daily mounting tensions with the US’s fellow nuclear superpower Russia, last week. The current iteration of the Bomber Task Force mission combined the B-2 deployment with one of B-1B Lancer strategic bombers. Since the Cold War the two planes along with the B-52 Stratofortress have made up the American nuclear-capable, long-range, supersonic bomber fleet. In 2007 the B-1 was converted to carry only conventional bombs in accord with the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty…

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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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14

Mar

China, De-Dollarization, Dollar, Russia, trade, US dollar

Russia gradually ditching US dollar in trade with allies

PEJOURNAL - A senior Russia lawmaker says his country is gradually reducing the role of the US dollar in financial transactions with allies and commercial partners, a long-pursued measure aimed at using currencies other than the greenback to offset the impacts of American sanctions. Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the Russian parliament's lower chamber, the State Duma, made the announcement on Thursday and said Russia was gradually reducing the share of the US dollar in the Russian economy and foreign exchange reserves. "For example, within the framework of the EAEU, settlements in national currencies have grown to 74%. We are…

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08

Mar

AI, Biden administration, China, cybersecurity, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Russia

The Biden administration’s AI and cybersecurity plans

PEJOURNAL - Major issues on the Biden table include fighting the coronavirus epidemic, providing financial support to Americans, and reversing Trump's policies on climate change, international relations, and immigration, and as expected, cybersecurity still tops the Biden administration's list of priorities and the new US president has shown signs of his government's approach to the technology. First of all, Biden elevated the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to a cabinet-level position and appointed top geneticist Eric Lander, the founding director of the MIT-Harvard Broad Institute, to the role. The OSTP advises the president on science…

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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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05

Mar

China, Crisis, De-Dollarization, Dollar, Global Economy, Marshall Plan, Russia

De-Dollarization: Removing the Dollar, Strategies and Efforts

BY: Danieal Ranjbar PEJOURNAL - From the 1940s, during the post-World War II reconstruction of Europe under the Marshall Plan, the dollar became the dominant international currency. But now, after all these years and the occurrence of several internal developments in the United States and internationally, the dominance of the dollar is threatened. The introduction and gradual strengthening of digital currencies, including bitcoin, was another reason for the removal of the dollar from the financial exchanges of some countries. Russia and China, as the first countries to eliminate the dollar, succeeded in doing so and removing the dollar from their…

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04

Mar

China, East, European Union, future, Iran, North Korea, Paolo Mauri, Russia, the United States, vision, West

A vision on the future

Interview with Paolo Mauri BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - The dossiers open on Joe Biden's desk are not only those of his newborn administration but also and above all those he inherited from those who preceded him, who is not the only Donald Trump. In fact, there are specific political lines that change little from administration to administration and that reflect the interests of the American establishment and its vision of the world. In the modern era it is the world that is the scene of the action of a Super Power like the United States of America but there…

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27

Jan

Joe Biden, Relations, Russia, US, Vladimir Putin

Will Russia-US relations improve?

BY: Danieal Ranjbar PEJOURNAL - Although the Kremlin has stated that Russia will establish relations with any government in the United States on an equal and fair basis, analysts believe that the future of relations between Moscow and Washington will improve due to the great differences between the two Sides. Regardless of who becomes president of the White House, differences between the United States and Russia have grown so much in recent years that there is little hope that relations between the two countries will improve, as Russian President Vladimir Putin says about bilateral relations. "Relations between Moscow and Washington…

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