Category: News
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Macron-Putin Diplomatic Talks
French President Emmanuel Macron recently met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss the ongoing Ukrainian crisis. Ukraine has been under real threat of invasion for a few months, and recently U.S. intelligence suggests attempts at fabricating a casus belli (an ‘acceptable’ reason to attack). But when asked regarding his meetings with Putin,…
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The Inevitability of Nuclear War in Ukraine
Since World War II, no nuclear powers have engaged each other directly, relying on proxy wars to sort their differences. Though these wars tend to shoulder the burden of conflict on third-party nations, they prevent the very real possibility of nuclear exchanges between superpowers capable of eradicating civilization as we know it. It is estimated…
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Russia Accused of Sending Operatives To Orchestrate False Flag Incident
In 1939, disguised Germans perpetrated the Gleiwitz incident, a purported attack on German soil that served as a pretext for the German invasion of Poland. Of course, the event was widely derided as a ploy to contemporary and modern historians. It was absurd to consider that Germany was anything but the aggressor, and the Gleiwitz…
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Kazakhstan and CSTO’s Regional Agenda
Kazakhstan, a country known for its natural beauty and tourism industry. Or at least, that is what their recent, intense advertisement campaign would have you believe. Yet the events that took place recently, despite Kazahkstan being known as a ‘safe’ nation, highlight just how quickly an incompetent government can collapse under mild stress. After the…
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“Little Green Men”: Russia’s Ukrainian deployments
The 21st century has seen the rise of an authoritarian successor state to the Soviet Union, Putin’s Russia. Using a mixture of military force and intensive political scheming, Putin has managed to secure a chokehold on worldwide democracy, undermining elections as important as the U.S. presidency. Putin has a lot going for him; his agents…
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Harnessing the Power of the Sun – Nuclear Energy
Growing interest in nuclear power remains mired by stigma despite serious concerns with efficacy of solar and wind.
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OPINION: The Necessity of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty
Japanese and American interests have often been shared, and a special friendship, much akin to that of the United States and Britain, has helped both countries see each other quite favorably as a result of the Japanese-American Security Treaty. Despite world war setbacks, Japanese and American cooperation in world affairs has a long history of…
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Vaccine Diplomacy
As the world grapples with surging infection rates and novel, complex variants, vaccine distribution becomes an arm of foreign policy.
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2021 – A Year of Tension
2021 was fraught with tension, as Biden’s administration grappled with domestic issues, all while attempting to return America to the diplomatic stage. Early on in his presidency, Biden’s leadership was challenged by events in Myanmar, Ukraine, and Afghanistan, as the world watched and gaged his response. Here are some areas events we’ll be keeping a…
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Russian Escalation in Crimea as Biden speaks with Putin on Ukraine
A significant military and diplomatic escalation, months after Putin’s stationing of troops near the border, is currently underway in Ukraine. U.S. intel, released in the declassified document below, refers to 175,000 Russian forces amassing in and around Ukraine. Worryingly, several pieces of artillery within Crimea have been identified. Russia’s military in the region is organized…