Exit chaos unavoidable: Biden

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gt US President Joe Biden said Wednesday it had been impossible to leave Afghanistan without chaos, as the US pleaded with the victorious Taliban to allow safe passage for people to flee. Amid →

Eastern Economic Forum: focus on "Eurasian tigers"

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Coronavirus revealed the structural problems of international institutions that had been accumulating for decades. The response to this challenge should be the ability of world leaders to be open →

Belgrade gets digital, but can it compete with other digital nomad locations?

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emerging europe Nikola Đorđević In Central and Eastern Europe, the race is on to attract digital nomads, who bring not only money but expertise and know-how into local tech ecosystems. How does →

Russia May Live to Regret Betting on the Taliban in Afghanistan

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carnegie Kirill Krivosheev The events currently unfolding in Afghanistan bear little resemblance to plans made ahead of the U.S. withdrawal, which was not supposed to be completed until August 31. →

Is pan-Turkism about to spark a new ‘Great Game’?

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emerging europe Christian Mamo Pan-Turkism is seeing a revival as an increasingly ambitious Turkey asserts its influence in the post-Soviet world, setting off alarm bells in Moscow in particular. →

Small But Mighty: North Korea is Ready to Swarm South Korea with Small Missile Boats

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ni by Michael Peck Here's What You Need to Remember: Even the U.S. Navy is worried about swarm attacks, given that Iran will also use flotillas of small, fast boats to take on American warships in →

The US is becoming USSR 2.0

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gt An overconfident America risks going down same path as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, warned Russian President Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. In →

Despite NATO Pressure, German Defense Budget Has Failed to Increase

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ni by Peter Suciu During the Trump administration, the White House strongly applied pressure on Germany to increase its military spending. Even as Germany had reported a record high in NATO defense →

World War I Was Much More Than Trenches in France

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ni by James Holmes Here's What You Need to Know: False lessons of history could beget bad decisions in the here and now. November 11, 2018—the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh →

America Must Closely Watch the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

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ni by Calli Obern For a young and scrappy institution, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) sure gets a lot of attention. With a sliver of the World Bank’s human and capital resources, the →

US’ complete collapse in 20-year Afghan war, a page of humiliation and proof of US failure in stretching arms to control, change others

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gt After fighting the "longest war" in its history, the US is now witnessing a complete failure in Afghanistan, a country also known as "the Graveyard of Empires," which analysts have said is a "page →

Canada’s Trudeau calls snap poll, seeks mandate for COVID-19 endgame

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gt Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday announced snap elections for September 20 to seek a new mandate to steer the nation's pandemic exit, much to the dismay of his rival parties. →

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