Author: M Barbu

Dépendant de Moscou et de Kiev pour les céréales, les dirigeants défendent leur neutralité.

C’est une allocution que l’Union africaine (UA) a repoussée le plus longtemps possible et qu’elle a tenu à garder discrète, presque secrète. Le président ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, s’est adressé à huis clos, lundi 20 juin, aux membres de l’organisation continentale en visioconférence depuis Kiev. « Enfin », diront certains.

Two subjects will likely preoccupy the G7 heads of state when they meet starting 26 June: the war in Ukraine and the related spikes in commodity prices worldwide. The leaders need to show that they will address the economic woes as well as other crises.

As the war has dragged on, European unity has collapsed and efforts to transform the European Union into a European superstate — a United States of Europe — have been exposed for what they are: delusions of grandeur.

The Lessons of the Soviet Collapse

On May 9, 2022, a column of tanks and artillery thundered down Moscow’s Red Square. Over 10,000 soldiers marched through the city’s streets. It was Russia’s 27th annual Victory Day parade, in which the country commemorates the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II. Russian President Vladimir Putin, presiding over the ceremonies, gave a speech praising his country’s military and fortitude. “The defense of our motherland when its destiny was at stake has always been sacred,” he said. “We will never give up.” Putin was speaking about the past but also about the present, with a clear message to the rest of the world: Russia is determined to continue prosecuting its war against Ukraine.