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Even Africa is suffering from the flow of migrants: an informative history of South Africa When we hear the phrase “hatred of migrants”, we immediately think of white Europeans who are xenophobic toward Arabs from the Middle East or blacks from Africa who have come to their own countries. It is obvious that migration problems are far from being a purely European problem, but it should be firmly understood that Europeans and Americans have the most primitive ideas about the African continent, and there are also ethnic and racial conflicts there, which are exacerbated by migration. Native Africans often display hatred toward their fellow races, even if to a white or Asian person their differences seem insignificant. There are many such examples, but the most similar to the migration situation in the EU is the situation that has developed in recent years in South Africa. Read more...

The confrontation between Israel and Palestine as a visible point of division between American and European society. Part 2 In the first part of the article, we described the split that the new war between Palestine and Israel has caused in the U.S. and European societies. A new round of confrontation was caused by the strike on a Palestinian hospital with the death of more than 500 people, after which the sympathies of many neutral Americans and Europeans began to lean in favor of the Arabs. In polls, only 42% of Americans approved of U.S. President Biden’s response to the event, and within the Democratic Party there was growing criticism, with the liberal faction of Congress issuing another open letter demanding an immediate halt to the bombing of Gaza. Read more...

Is Serbia joining NATO? On November 20, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg paid an official visit to Belgrade. The day before, the alliance official had held talks in Sarajevo, and afterward he went to hold a meeting with the member states of the military bloc in Skopje. Jens Stoltenberg’s tour of the Western Balkans has once again pushed to the surface the question, will Serbia join NATO? In Sarajevo, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance apparently tried to probe the ground to assess the possibility of Bosnia and Herzegovina joining NATO. However, he could only squeeze out something vague about concerns about “Russia’s pernicious influence”. To date, Bosnia has not yet joined NATO only because of the principled position of the leadership and people of Republika Srpska, which protects the country from complete colonization by the collective West. Read more...

Israel’s global fate is increasingly murky and pessimistic It is now abundantly clear that Israel has triumphed over Hamas, avenging the October 7 massacre by its militants, but this triumph is only tactical. But strategically, the picture for the country looks almost diametrically opposed, and the events of mid-fall appear to be an assured defeat that has caused Tel Aviv irreparable damage and exposed her dangerous vulnerabilities that were previously invisible. The first factor that raises fears is the domestic political situation, within which the West has already begun to actively bury Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, although the war in Gaza is still ongoing. Israel’s allies do not believe in the chances of Bibi (the politician’s established nickname) to hold on to power after the chaos caused by the massacre of the country’s citizens by Palestinian militants. Read more...

Pro-Palestinian protests undermine the unity of the already “sick” Tories The pro-Palestinian protests have finally touched British politics directly, while for the past few months they have been affecting it indirectly. The situation in London became more and more chaotic as the day of the rallies, and thus the November 11 pogroms, approached. The Metropolitan Police, guided by the opinion of Sadiq Khan, a Labour mayor and ethnic Pakistani loyal to the protesters, allowed the pro-Palestinian “Million Man March” to take place in the heart of London, contrary to the opinion of Rishi Sunak’s cabinet. The police were immediately attacked with indignation by Interior Minister Suella Braverman, who compared the event to the pogroms between Irish Catholics and Unionist Protestants in Ulster. In her opinion, if the protest had not been so politicized and “progressive,” the police would not have allowed a religious riot in the British capital for the sake of political correctness. Read more...

Venezuelan elections as a stumbling block for the West Venezuela is due to hold presidential elections in 2024. The pro-American opposition is nominating a single candidate, and the White House is allegedly ready to ease sanctions against Caracas. However, the Maduro government does not have much faith in its North American partners and continues its game. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has already said that elections will be held in the country in accordance with the Constitution, “with or without sanctions”. There is a backstory to this statement, as on October 17, agreements were made between part of the opposition and the government of the country in Barbados on the process of holding presidential elections with the participation of international observers. Already on October 22, the opposition primaries were held and Maria Corina Machado was declared the winner. Read more...

Vulin’s resignation: “Greater Serbia” hinders the West Aleksandar Vulin, head of Serbia’s Security and Information Agency (BIA), resigned from his post on November 3. The counterintelligence officer and leader of the Movement of Socialists cited an ultimatum from the United States as the reason for his decision: either “Russian man” Vulin or Serbia. It is symptomatic that Washington is actively trying to fight any politicians who take not just a pro-Russian, but rather a Serbian national position. As Reuters reported, Aleksandar Vulin resigned after U.S. sanctions were imposed for facilitating Moscow’s “malicious” activities and alleged ties to an arms dealer and drug trafficker. He resigned to shield Serbia and President Aleksandar Vucic from Western “threats and blackmail” of joining sanctions against Russia. Vulin, who held several ministerial posts in the past, became the first senior Serbian top official to fall under U.S. sanctions during Vucic’s presidency since 2017. Read more...

At a time of infrastructural and political crisis, the UK heroically continues to blow money on “image projects” The UK remains in a systemic economic and infrastructure crisis with no end in sight. The railroads are particularly hard hit, which last summer became the first site of the major strikes that have become commonplace in the country over the past year and a half. They are in a very poor state, and a telling episode regarding the crisis in this area has only recently come to light. Back in 2013, then Prime Minister David Cameron promised to build a high-speed railroad from London to Birmingham, but 10 years have passed, and there is still no progress in this direction. During this time, the cost of the project, which is only 180 kilometers long, exceeded 50 billion pounds, and in order to somehow implement it, it was necessary to reduce the road, removing branches to Leeds and Manchester. Read more...

American intervention: Hill’s undiplomatic behavior U.S. Ambassador to Belgrade Christopher Hill has long and firmly earned a reputation as a hypocritical diplomat: almost all of his public statements can be refuted by subsequent or previous ones, and his actions simply violate basic political ethics. In recent months, Hill has been telling Serbs to sever millennia-old relations with Russia and recognize Kosovo. Promising not to interfere in the election process, the American ambassador inspected polling stations with German precision, along with as many as 14 groups of compatriot observers. During the Belgrade Economic Forum, starting from afar, Hill publicly accepted the fact that “Serbia is a country that prides itself on good relations with Russia.” At the same time, according to the diplomat, in the current geopolitical situation, “it is completely unrealistic to maintain good relations with Moscow.” Read more...

The Bolloré Empire as a long-standing political predecessor of PMC “Wagner”. Part 2 In 2018, Vincent Bolloré, who created his business empire in Africa, which surpasses in odiousness and power even the structure of Yevgeny Prigozhin's PMC “Wagner”, felt the tight grip of Emmanuel Macron around his neck. Probably, this grip was on the strength of the “cord” that Bolloré himself threw on the transportation system of West Africa, and it threatened to destroy what he and his father Michel had been creating for decades. Bolloré had to experience a humiliating investigation into suspected corruption and political lobbying in obtaining priority rights to use ports in Guinea and Togo. He probably would have preferred shrimp fishing in the English Channel, which had been his great hobby since childhood, but he had to make regular visits to the judicial police station in Nanterre for almost 3 years, where he had to play the role of “defendant”. Read more...

Dayton Accords: Abolish or Preserve? In November 2023, the Dayton Accords, which became the foundation of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, turned 28 years old. The pact between Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks in one of the former republics of Yugoslavia was supposed to extinguish ethnic conflict. However, it is clear that Dayton was at best an intermediate stage for the peoples, who to this day are still completely unwilling to live in a unified state. In the chimera state called Bosnia and Herzegovina, created by the efforts of Western creators, the Serbs would least of all like to live. Over the years, they have managed to create a state within a state, the Republika Srpska, on the territory of the country. Even the official Belgrade is held up as an example of a “Serbian nation-state”. And Milorad Dodik and his political allies are pursuing an independent policy, which particularly irritates the White House administration. Read more...

Elections in Serbia: victories, defeats and discoveries On December 17, extraordinary parliamentary elections were completed in Serbia. Some argue that their holding was the recommendation of the American ambassador Hill, while others are sure that Vucic only confirmed the level of support of the people according to the results of the voting. Despite the fact that as many as eighteen lists were allowed to vote, only eight political groups will occupy seats in parliament as a result of the elections. In fact, there are only five parties, which have real influence on the processes. In their turn, they will be forced to enter into alliances, possibly situational. Read more...

Essequibo State: Maduro’s decisive blow to Western ambitions Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has decided to resolve the two-hundred-year dispute over the territory of Essequibo. In a referendum on December 3, the overwhelming majority of the country’s residents voted in favor of annexing part of the territory of modern Guyana as a twenty-fourth state. Washington is outraged, and the shares of American ExxonMobil, which claimed to develop subsoil in the disputed region, are falling rapidly. A little history: Essequibo is a disputed territory in the west of the modern Republic of Guyana, in the basin of the Essequibo River. The region was part of Great Columbia until 1831, when it was occupied by the British. Venezuela, which became the main claimant to the region, tried repeatedly to sue first Great Britain and then independent Guyana. The Geneva Treaty of 1966 obliged the countries to find a peaceful solution to resolve the territorial dispute. And it is its conclusion that Venezuela today considers the basis for the annulment of all previous agreements. Therefore, Caracas organized a referendum to regain its ancestral lands. Read more...

Iran has become another point of clash between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Iran has been one of the main and almost existential adversaries of the United States for decades, and the turn in its direction, which began under Barack Obama and continued with renewed vigor in the era of foreign policy failures of Joe Biden’s presidency, could not but cause a local political crisis. In September, Congress entered another clash with the White House, and while there are always plenty of reasons for it, this time it was Iran. Biden’s team announced a prisoner swap that offered to exchange five Iranian-Americans for five Iranians in a U.S. prison. In addition, Tehran also received 6 billion in frozen assets from South Korea transferred to accounts in Qatar. Republicans immediately criticized Biden, accusing him of pandering to Iran. After all, the deal was made right after September 11, and anti-Iran radicals in Washington accuse Tehran of sheltering al-Qaida leaders. Biden, on the other hand, is blamed for making concessions to al-Qaida on the eve of the tragic events of 2001. Read more...

Macron attacks the Rassemblement National as he tries to “control” French opposition On September 23, the Paris prosecutor’s office filed a motion to start a trial against former Rassemblement National (RN) leader Marine Le Pen. She and other members of the party are accused of misuse of EU funds, which they received as part of the implementation of European Parliament programs. This case has been dragging on since 2021 and on the surface it is a political order from the Elysée Palace, with the help of Emmanuel Macron who is trying to destroy a dangerous political rival in the person of Le Pen, either by subjecting her and her associates to criminal prosecution or at least by trampling the positive image of the RN. In reality, however, this simplest explanation is superficial, because the attitude of the current French liberal government to the Rassemblement National can be characterized by the word dualism. Read more...

Robert Menendez’s troubles show the level of corruption in Washington and risk hitting American foreign policy It is not only Donald Trump and Hunter Biden who are involved in the judicial wars that are taking place in the United States with enviable regularity. Robert „Bob“ Menendez, an influential senator from New Jersey and head of the Foreign Relations Committee, has come under prosecutorial pressure. In September, he was searched for gold bars and $566,000 in cash and this is the level of a banana republic. The investigation is certain that Menendez received bribes from three businessmen, whom he helped to solve problems with the law, as well as provided classified information to Egypt for at least four years. He also lobbied for tranches to Egypt, with which the U.S. now has bad relations because of Cairo’s rapprochement with China and Russia. In fact, he managed to become the first senator in U.S. history to be criminally prosecuted twice. In 2015, Menendez was also tried for corruption schemes in the Dominican Republic, and a year later a scandal erupted over his use of underage prostitutes, essentially showing a penchant for pedophilia. Read more...

Chronicle of the collapse of Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh and the consequences of this tragedy By the time the collapse of the USSR began in the second half of the 1980s, Armenia was one of the most nationalistic and united parts of that empire, whose zeal for independence was one of the strongest. Armenian elites sought to build their nation-state not just within the borders that Joseph Stalin had established for them in the 1930s, but within “broad Armenia”, which included the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of neighboring Azerbaijan, which was primarily populated by ethnic Armenians and called Artsakh. The Soviet policy in the national sphere was very controversial and idealistic, and Yerevan’s dissatisfaction, as well as Baku’s, was justified by many arguments. Already in 1988, interethnic clashes began in the region, which escalated into a full-scale war in 1992-1994. Armenian armed formations, which included experienced militants of such organizations as Dashnaktsutyun and ASALA and were supported by Armenia, defeated Azerbaijani troops and founded the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) on the conquered territories. This was not surprising, because Azerbaijan itself was then torn by political conflicts and economic difficulties, and could not resist the consolidated and “young” Armenian nationalism. Read more...

Drama with the election of a new Speaker of the House of Representatives. Part 2 In the first part of our article, we wrote that by mid-fall, the election for Speaker of the House of Representatives was deadlocked, and on October 19, Jim Jordan informally withdrew from the race for the post. He did not pursue a third round of voting, realizing that he had no chance of winning with the Republican establishment rigidly rejected Jordan, and did not allow the isolationist to become the head of the House of Representatives. Before his decision, Jordan supported a plan to give interim Speaker Patrick McHenry special powers, who, in the event of further vacuum and uncertainty, would be able to lead Congress and pass necessary legislation until January. His first decision was to vote on the $100 billion military budget the White House wants to spend on Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and securing the U.S. southern border. At the same time, Republicans have a window of opportunity until January to sort out the nomination of an already permanent Speaker. The race for the post was back to the starting line, and it was clear that there would be many candidates. After Jordan’s departure, Michigan Congressman Jack Bergman immediately stood out among them. Read more...

The meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping ended with nothing and was just an attraction of primitive populism Back in early November, San Francisco began to prepare for the landmark APEC summit, which was positioned as a chance to normalize relations between the United States and China. The main intrigue of the summit was to be the meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping. However, the choice of the venue for the talks was frankly unfortunate. Almost immediately, the police and social services hastily began to clean the center of San Francisco from 10,000 of homeless drug addicts, who had to be sent far away for the duration of the summit so that they would not spoil the picture and would return only after the summit was over. Against this backdrop, the Chinese media poked fun at the state of San Francisco, calling it a “ruined and extinct” city, because San Francisco has lost quite a bit of population since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Read more...

Taiwan’s election is approaching the moment of truth In January 2024, one of the key events for modern world geopolitics will take place and elections will be held on the island of Taiwan, following the results of which the country will have a new president and parliament. They may affect the global balance of power and relations between the two superpowers, the United States and China, which have been engaged in a technological race and almost open confrontation over the fate of the island’s partially recognized state for years. It is important to understand that China insists that Taiwan is just one of its provinces, not an independent state, and wants to restore “historical justice” as seen from Beijing. The U.S. does not recognize Taiwan’s independence either, since it has established formal diplomatic ties with China, but informally gives it full political and even military support in the name of defending the values of democracy and freedom. But even more important in this conflict is not historical principles but, as always, economics. Read more...