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06/09/11 | FREE TRADE AREA: THE EURO-UNION FOUND A WAY TO PROFITEER ON THE «UKRAINIAN DREAM»

Konstantin Grishenko, head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Ukraine will make the Euro-Union stronger. We may agree on that — Free Trade Area is surely extremely beneficial for the EU. Without doubt, European companies will be grateful to Ukraine. In the end, Ukraine will get lots of European goods, which its own industry won’t be able to compete, while the European Union will include Kiev into its sphere of influence without paying a cent. Quite the contrary — it will make some good buck on it!

31/08/11 | THE USA — RUSSIA: «RESETTING» THE RELATIONSHIP OR RAILROADING THE UNILATERAL CONCESSIONS?

Today it’s hard to predict the future destiny of the Reset. Mutually beneficial relations are only possible, in case of efforts and willingness of both sides. If one of the partners, however, only awaits give-and-takes, nothing good will come out of this.

31/08/11 | NATO VS GADDAFI: THE FIRST RESUMES OF THE WAR

Transgressing the spirit of international laws in Libya from the very beginning, NATO command broke its letter then, too. Instead of protecting civilian population of Cyrenaica, NATO forced have killed hundreds (if not thousands) of them in the other regions and then started to supply weapon to one of belligerents. Finally, British SAS has taken direct part in the warfare, while assaulting Tripoli.

27/08/11 | DIALOGUE WITH A LENDER: AMERICAN DIPLOMACY IS TRYING TO CHARM CHINA

Various takes on the crisis of American economy established itself a seat at the info-streams of news agencies, newspaper pages and analytical magazines all over the world. Decrease of the U.S. credit rating has produced a boomed echo at the world exchanges and made the governments of the countries that lent money to the largest economy in the world seriously pondering over their actions. The U.S. State Department has seemingly come up with a way for pacifying the most bellicose of them.

26/08/11 | ISLAMABAD-WASHINGTON: IS BREAKING THE RELATIONS OFF REALLY INEVITABLE? Given certain circumstances, Pakistan may enter the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Since the moment independent Pakistan emerged at the political world map in 1947, the United States has always been its key geopolitical ally. The alliance rested upon the mutual benefit. The USA needed the jumping-ground in this uneasy region and Pakistan needed American money. So, after 65 years both countries are equally shocked by a though that this seemingly invincible pragmatic alliance may cease to exist in the nearest future.

24/08/11 | EUROPE DRIFTS TOWARDS THE ECONOMIC DICTATORSHIP. Weak European countries would live to the orders of the strong ones

European Central Bank has been buying off various debts of the EU states, which are in a rather poor state right now. Among the rest, Italian and Spanish debts for an impressive amount of €22 billion were bought. In case of «divorce» the issue of retrieving these funds will surely emerge. Besides, Greece already fiercely protests against this alternative, as long as its government took the offence in the refusal of Merkel and Sarkozy to adopt the idea of the united European bonds — concept, which Greece understandably lobbied.

24/08/11 | MIDDLE EAST: THE WAR OF ATTRITION

Modern situation in Libya and Syria leaves but two assumptions to make. Either the attempts two reformat the most inconvenient for America states in the region with a storming assault completely failed, or the creation of slowly smoldering hotbed was planned from the very beginning. Judging by the facts we dispose, both options are equally possible.

22/08/11 | LIBYA: IS IT THE NEW BLITZKRIEG OF GENERAL DOLLAR?

Given any outcome of the events in Tripoli, there are no guarantees whatsoever that the authority of the Transitional National Council from Benghazi will be established over an entire Libyan territory. Neither can it be guaranteed that this authority will be steady. Coalition and its allies will apparently face the need to deal with Gaddafi’s heirs, who will have plenty of human, financial and ideological resources for keeping up the resistance.

21/08/11 | CSTO IS PREPARING AN ATTACK AT THE SOCIAL NETWORKS

Times, when the state with the mightier army won any war, are seemingly gone. All the evidence indicates that the future wars will be unleashed in the Internet — and in minds and souls through it. As the ancient Chinese theoretician Sun Tzu used to tell, destroying enemy’s agenda is much better than destroying his army.

18/08/11 | FROM AFGHANISTAN TO THE EURASIAN ARC OF INSTABILITY

There’s an odd pattern that can hardly be explained by a mere coincidence. It is well-known that today’s revolutions and coups create a huge arc, starting from the North Africa and setting against the Middle Asia. Center of the world map, concentration of human and natural resources is being reformatted into some sort of the united structure. In case if the Middle Eastern «arc» is completed, the instability comes right at the European border and directly impacts Russian and Chinese interests.