The story of human race is war said Winston Churchill. Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace in the world; and before…
Putin’s War is threatening our planet – attack on gas pipelines pulls Russia into the line of suspicion – but what about the US?!
November 2022There was no good time for Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked, idiotic invasion of Ukraine. But this is a uniquely bad time. Because it’s diverting worldwide attention and…
Germany needs to wake up and must become a global economic actor within Europe and beyond
October 2022Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine is shaking up the EU, accelerating its evolution into a fully-fledged sovereign political power, complementing its existing economic strength. The…
After Russia’s invasion into Ukraine the “game is on” for oil and gas the next three years will identify the “winners and losers”
July 2022The great oil shocks of the 1970s taught western politicians a sobering lesson about the might of the world’s energy superpowers. Fifty years later, that lesson…
Shocks such as COVID-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine command not only our attention but also has a deep influence of reshaping the world from…
Russia’s military operation causes a world food crisis for the poorest nation on the planet
June 2022Once again, it is the world’s poor who risk becoming collateral damage. As war thunders on in Ukraine, the most deprived people in the Middle East,…
Three days before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, former president Dmitry Medvedev assured Vladimir Putin in a fateful televised meeting that there was nothing to…
During his January 17th, 1961, farewell address US President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the threat posed to democratic government by the “military industrial complex”, formed by…
The West has all but declared economic warfare on Russia in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Whether or not Russia manages to make interest…
Europe and the US wait anxiously to see if the Russian President Vladimir Putin will give the order to invade Ukraine at the beginning of 2022.…