Jokowi's visits to Russia and Ukraine are more about domestic gains than the global interest
Jul 07, 2022 16:08 pm UTC| Politics
After the recent diplomatic visits of Indonesian President Joko Jokowi Widodo to Ukraine and Russia, some Indonesian politicians and public figures have suggested that the Indonesian leader should earn the Nobel Peace...
Ukraine is losing this war at the moment. The west needs to massively step up its military aid
Jul 07, 2022 03:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
For a few weeks Ive been in Kyiv, partly as a visiting fellow at leading Ukrainian thinktank the Transatlantic Dialogue Center. Kyiv is an astonishingly elegant and beautiful city; a premier league European capital. The...
Ukraine: US deploys more troops in eastern Europe -- here's how it compares with the cold war
Jul 04, 2022 16:39 pm UTC| Politics
US president Joe Biden is beefing up the US military presence in eastern Europe as a reaction to the Ukraine war. Biden plans to redeploy troops from Germany to Poland and Romania and send more destroyers to strengthen...
Jun 23, 2022 16:16 pm UTC| Politics
As Russias war in Ukraine becomes a quagmire of attrition, Western leaders are slowly coming to two realisations about Vladimir Putins intentions. First, Russias war against Ukraine wont be over soon, and is likely to...
Ukraine war: fears that Belarus might invade on Russia's side are growing
Jun 21, 2022 21:54 pm UTC| Politics
As the war in Ukraine drags on and Russias attempts to gain significant ground in Donbas stall, concerns are being raised once again about the possibility of Belarus opening a second front. This, so the logic goes, would...
Ukraine: international pressure needs to be on Moscow, not Kyiv
Jun 09, 2022 08:44 am UTC| Politics
Having crossed the 100-day mark, the war in Ukraine is having an ever more obvious, and negative, impact on a wide range of issues. From a global food crisis that could last for years to serious problems with the cost of...
Ukraine war: rising food prices are not the only global economic fallout
May 28, 2022 12:03 pm UTC| Economy
As the war in Ukraine heads into its fourth month, its economic consequences are becoming more apparent and begin to move up on the global political agendas. And in the same way in which Russias aggression has had...
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