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Start of 2021 the UK left the EU, and the Biden administration comes in and this really is in principle a moment to reorganize the so-called West. To reorganize those powers that have basically shaped the world since the end of the Second World War
I'm not sure I could identify a single significant problem in the world today - Syria, Hong Kong, what to do about Russia and Ukraine, how to deal with a broken Israeli-Palestinian peace process, what to do about Iran's putative nuclear weapons program - that has an end state or anything that remotely resembled a comprehensive solution
Many of the developments that we saw in North Korea complete during Kim Jong Un's tenure so far were initiated by his father and his grandfather. So, there is a story here that involves all three Kim's but certainly Kim Jong Un will be remembered in North Korea for crossing the most important threshold, which includes bringing the United States into range with ICBMs
Featuring Rosa Balfour and Corinna Hörst, the WIIS Brussels’s final podcast of 2021 highlights these experts’s experiences in the worlds of academia and European affairs. The episode also looks back on the challenges of European security, defense, and foreign affairs in 2021, and looks forward to the new year.
Local Lebanese politicians are incapable or unwilling to come together to reform the country, to reform its institutions, to reform its politics and its economy. But I would put it in bigger terms and say that they're unwilling to do anything that would undermine their own grip on power
It did raise serious questions about the administration's competency and credibility and whether or not it could basically deliver on commitments that it had made to its allies. Getting out of lost wars is never an easy enterprise.
Some of these countries do want to join the EU, and if they can't join it then they want a much closer kind of integration with the EU and much closer relationship with NATO. The big problem is that these are countries lived under the former Soviet Union
The biggest mistake I see is that NATO hasn't come up with serious proposals to deal with what Russia is doing
There is an aspect of having to be able to persuade, not just your adversaries that you might not want to fight you, however you also need to persuade your fellow citizens to come along with you.
What is at stake is the post-Cold War era. Russia does not want to give up its control or influence over eastern Europe, whether it is Ukraine, Belarus, or Azerbaijan.