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By Rhod Mackenzie

The three former memebers of Soviet Union the Balic states of Estonia ,Latvia and Lithuania who now are members of NATO  and the EU are among the those the most concerned about the fate of Greenland Now why has this serious  concern appeared when before there was a complete lack...

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...