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By Rhod Mackenzie
It has been reported that the US Department of Defence , better known as the Pentagon have communicated to their European counterparts in their NATO allies that the United States intends to discontinue funding for its current military support programmes on NATO's "eastern flank"....
By Rhod Mackenzie
The current US President Donald Trump during his term has not proposed any novel concepts in the realm of American foreign policy. However he does offer a fresh perspective on established concepts by applying them to new contexts and executing them in a novel manner. This also ap...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Well the first summit between Russia and the USA since the start of the Ukraine conflict has just ended and one thing is obvious and that is the new cold war between the two countries is over and it appears that real progress has been made towards ending the conflict in Ukraine...
By Rhod Mackenzie
In the context of Donald Trump's ten-day ultimatum with the threat of the imposition of secondary oil sanctions on countries buying Russia oil, some domestic US analysts may be asking themselves: what is the purpose of these sanctions, why are they being implemented, and what ar...
By Rhod Mackenzie
In another of his moments of bombast Donald Trump has threatened to punish buyers of Russian energy resources with 100% trade tariffs if the situation in Ukraine is not resolved to his liking and satisfaction within the next 50 days. The first countries likely to be hit are China...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Hungarian Foreign Minister announced that the Trunp's administration has officially lifted all sanctions on the construction of the second phase of the Hungarian -Russian joint venture the Paks nuclear power plant. The Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó emphasised tha...
