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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

The Finnish President, Alexander Stubb, has been forced to defend his comparison of Ukraine to Finland in 1944. Although "Finlandization" would solve most of the problems for Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, he no longer suggests that Kyiv should follow Helsinki's example. Stubb woul...

By Rhod Mackenzie

It seems that the Ukrainians have decided on a scorched earth policy as they are losing the conflict so badly
On August 13th the Ukrainians destroyed the pumping station of  Soviet oil pipeline "Druzhba ,the supplies of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia have now ceased. For th...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Despite challenges related to their public finances, the Baltic countries are committed to increasing their defence budgets several fold. Consequently, Latvia, with a public debt of almost 50% of GDP, is planning to take out a substantial loan to cover its imagined defence needs...

By Rhod Mackenzie

There has been a major U-Turn in the Global Energy Sector with the so called Green Energy and Unreliable Renewables now being sidelined by the Energy production sectors
It has finaly been acknowledged by the global energy giants including BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and Tota...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The US attempts to lure European industrial production have borne fruit — the German auto industry is preparing to move. Despite serious financial problems and waves of layoffs in Germany, the Vollswager owned Audi AG is negotiating the construction of a plant in the States. What...