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The prospect of mutual annihilation and ever increasing armament costs led to a balance of terror, but also to arms control, sometimes even disarmament. Washington and Moscow, which hold 90 percent of the nuclear weapons, signed important contracts during and after the East-West conflict to limit and reduce their arsenals. Starting with SALT 1 (1972) and SALT 2 (1979) through START 1 (1991) and START 2 (1993) to SORT (2002) and New START (2010). The ABM Treaty (1972), which regulated…

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I was grown up in the transatlantic liberal democracy of Germany and know about the other historical paths of German history which wanted to make an alliance with Russia, be it the Black Reichswehr, be it Rapallo, be it the Eurasian axis of Sun Yatsen, be it the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the neutral Germany which was wavering between the blocs and never found its place, wanted to find its „place at the sun“ under Emperor Wilhelm 2 or Lebensraum in…

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Le Monde publishes in its June 19 edition an op-ed against the annexation of part of the West Bank, signed by Dany Cohn-Bendit, Alain Finkielkraut, Bernard-Henri Levy, Dominique Moisi, Pierre Nora, Diana Pinto, Anne Sinclair et Benjamin Stora…. We wish to express our concern about the Israeli government’s project to carry out the annexation of some parts of the West Bank, starting on July 1st. Such a project would undermine the rights of the Palestinian people and would at the…

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Es sind zwei Sachen, die US-Vorherrschaft zu kritisieren und was man stattdessen will. Die US-Vorherrschaft kritiseren auch Linke, aber Rechte wollen eben, dass Deutschland eben auch eine Grossmacht wird, sich hochrüstet und international „auf Augenhöhe“ mitspielt. Das ist die „hidden agenda“ . auch wenn viele Rechte sich auf die neutrale Schweiz und deren direkte Demokratie berufen. Aber das tat auch schon der rechtsradikale DVU-Führer Frey um die Leute zu beruhigen.  Dazu muss man sagen, dass Deutschland eben kein „besetztes Land“…

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Danile Ganser ist in der Verschwörungsszene ein inflationär genannter Berufungstitel. Psiram fasst seinen Werdegang und seine Verbindungen zur Verschwörungstheoretikerszene, deren fester Bestandteil er inzwischen ist derfolgt zusammen: „Daniele Ganser (geb. 29. August 1972 in Lugano) ist ein Schweizer Historiker, Autor und Verschwörungsideologe[5], der sich selbst als Energie- und Friedensforscher bezeichnet.[6] Er wurde mit seiner 2005 publizierten Dissertation über „NATO-Geheimarmeen“ bekannt und veröffentlichte unter anderem eine Untersuchung zum globalen Fördermaximum von Erdöl. Ganser greift in der Truther-Szene populäre Verschwörungstheorien um den…

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Global Review documents a text from Russian President Vladimir Putin how he perceives the causes of the Second World War, the policy and guilt of all states involved, and the lessons he wants to teach us. Western critics think Putin wants to rewrite Russian history for a new Russian neo-imperialism. However, Putin makes some strong points. First that the Sovjet Union was not invited in the League of Nations as it was becoming member of the UNO after the war,…

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The Indo-Chinese border conflict at Ladhak has different explanations: China thinks that India´s new nationalism and its rapprochement with the USA, the hope that it can replace China as global factory, would now mirror in the military sphere. The Global Times writes: „An economy-crippling lockdown doesn’t seem to have deterred India from daring to dream big as its ambition to replace China’s role in the global industrial chain expands.  India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh is forming an economic task…

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In their contribution US-Russia Relations 2030, June 15, 2020, Richard Sokolsky,and Eugene Rumer for the first time break the taboo of a US American think tanks of thinking about a cooperation with Russia in the future. „Summary:  U.S.-Russia relations will remain frosty for years, but even Cold Wars eventually thaw. The United States should prepare now to act decisively when this one finally does, even if it takes a decade“- Till now the idea of an US-Russian cooperation was confined to…

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Up until now, counterjihad has mainly been propagated and largely monopolized from the right , which was an expression of the fact that there are hardly any people or political groups on the left who have grappled seriously with Islam and Islamism and have named it the enemy of the left Some leftists see such Islamists as allies in the anti-imperialist struggle due to their anti-Americanism. The majority of the left pretends to be cultural relativists, understanders of Islam, views…

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We are now entering a very decisive phase. After Trump and many other U.S. Republicans and Democrats are tired of Germany failing to meet its 2% NATO commitments, its support for  North Stream and Huawei and its notorious anti-American sentiments which exist in Germany Trump is now serious about the withdrawal of US troops and US nuclear weapons, such as the SPD recently demanded, and reduces the US troops from 35,000 to 25,000, which Putin in a first statement initially…

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Already at NATO´s  70 years meeting in 2019, the transatlantic alliance due to Trump´s pressure for the first time declared that China was a „potential threat“. Now in June 2020, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has asked the defense alliance to prepare itself more effectively against threats from China. The country is investing heavily in nuclear weapons and long-range missiles that could reach Europe, Stoltenberg told „Welt am Sonntag“.„One thing is clear: China is getting closer and closer to Europe’s front…

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The War on Terror, which now seems to have stopped and which should have been better conceived as War against Islamism, is now being replaced by conflicts over great power. While everybody is now looking at Russia and China, the Islamists are growing again, including Erdogan-Turkey`s neo-Ottoman empire idea with the Muslim Brotherhood of all countries, as well as overthrowing Assad, which then leads to an Islamist dictatorship in Syria Russia will not be able to counter this very much,…

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Der War on Terror, der inzwischen eingestellt scheint unnd den man besser als War against Islamism hätte konzipieren sollen, wird nun wieder von Grossmachtkonflikten abgelöst. Während jetzt wieder alles auf Russland und China schaut,wachsen die Islamisten wieder heran,wobei ich auch die Erdogan-Türkei mit ihrer neoosmanischen Reichsidee mit den Muslimbrüfern aller Länder dazu zähle.Zudem auch ein Sturz Assads möglich ist,der dann eine islamistische Diktatur in Syrien hervorbringt.Russland wird dem nicht allzuviel entgegensetzen können.Dann hat man zwar Assad und die Russen samt…

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Three reading recommendations: 1) American exceptionalism. Joseph S. Nye jr. , father of the soft power idea, is thinking in his contribution „American Exceptionalism in the Age of Trump“ how the USA can regain its position internationally and restore trust. The emphasis is on the United States as a global supplier of international public goods from health systems to the environment as the USA tried before to be a global supplier for international security (which Rusian strategist Karaganov now proposed…

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Already at NATO´s  70 years meeting in 2019, the transatlantic alliance due to Trump´s pressure for the first time declared that China was a „potential threat“. Now in June 2020, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has asked the defense alliance to prepare itself more effectively against threats from China. The country is investing heavily in nuclear weapons and long-range missiles that could reach Europe, Stoltenberg told „Welt am Sonntag“.„One thing is clear: China is getting closer and closer to Europe’s front…

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While the discussion about a Sino-American war until recently was still confined to some think tanks, military experts and the Pentagon, TX Hammes Offshore Control, the CSBA Airsea Battle concept or RAND „War with China“, Harvard professor Graham Allinson´s book „Destined for War with China- How to avoid the Thucydides trap? started an open discussion. among the political and economic elite. Graham Allinson studied Greece and the father of history Thudycides who focused in his writings about the Peleponesian wars…

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To understand Trump´s China policy a good source is his former national adviser and mastermind Steve Bannon who designed the America First policy. Bannon thinks that all the former strategists had illusions in China. First, the decline oft the US and the rise of China was not natural law or law of history, but was man-made and can be changed. Secondly, China was a totalitarian system that had many economic weaknesses and ripped the USA of its economic power and…

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Global Review recommends two other Youtube videos comparable like the debate between Muthbubani versus Mearsheimer . This time Yukon Huang who portrays China as relative stable and a successful economy versus Guo Wengui, Chinese exile oligarch dissident who claims that the CP China is just a declining economy which makes its Western partners to believe its lies and propaganda of a flourishing peaceful rise of China. .Yukon Huang is a senior fellow in the Carnegie Asia Program, where his research…

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Drei Lesetips: 1)American exceptionalism. Nye, Vater der soft power idea überlegt, wie die USA wieder ihre Stellung international zurückgewinnen und  Vertrauen wieder herstellen können. Die Betonung liegt auf den USA als global supplier of public goods: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ameircan-exceptionalism-in-trump-era-by-joseph-s-nye-2020-06 2) Gute Analyse des deutschen und europäischen Dilemas, falls der sinoamerikanische Konflikt eskalieren sollte, wie man sich dann positionieren sollte. Wobei die US-Drohung jetzt US-Truppen aus Deutschland abzuziehen ja auch darunter fällt und ein sanftes Vorspiel und Sturmvogel ist.: https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/a-foreign-policy-conundrum-merkel-and-the-eu-trapped-between-china-and-the-u-s-a-cd315338-7268-4786-8cf7-dc302c192e5d 3) Gute Analyse…

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Global Review had the pleasure to have an interview with Indian General (ret.) Asthana about the geopolitical situation in Asia and the escalating Sino-American conflict i the Covid era.. The author is a strategic and security analyst, a veteran Infantry General with40 years experience in national & international fields and UN. A globally acknowledged strategic & military writer/analyst authored over 350 publications. Interviewed by various National and International news channels/newspapers/organisations. Currently Chief Instructor, USI of India, the oldest Indian Think-tank…

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