Africa is becoming a geopolitical battleground, and one where the United States’ and Europe’s interests are not always aligned.
The rationale for helping the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh is not just humanitarian, but geopolitical as well.
Although the BRICS may hope for a more equal world-order, they may soon find out that the standard they rebel against may not actually have been the worst structure for governing the world’s resources.
As one geopolitical epoch gives way to another, Churchill’s old dictum rings true as always: “In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
Nuclear weapons play an essential if unspoken role in the Ukraine war: they keep the conflict from spilling its borders.
The BRICS grouping owes its ascent in large part to a shared disdain for the excesses of the unipolar moment, and this is making for some awkward comparisons in the shadow of the Ukraine war.
In cozying up to India, Washington is putting geopolitics over any shared commitment to democracy and human rights.
The BRICS grouping may have taken the world by storm, but the national interests of various member states continue to stymie the emergence of any meaningful pan-BRICS ideology.
The question of Ukraine’s ascension to NATO should be a matter of national interest, and while those interests are clear in the case of Europe, they are far less so for Washington.
Many El Salvadorans are celebrating the successes of their country’s heavy-handed approach toward crime; and other governments in the region are starting to take notice.