Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Foreign Affairs
03/06/2022
Russian news anchor: Millions of Russians feel this is a catastrophe
Russian news director and anchor, Ekaterina Kotrikadze, speaks to CNN's Fareed Zakaria about the state of the country's news media after her station, TV Rain, shut down due to the Russian government's crackdown on local media over unfavorable coverage of the war in Ukraine.
03/04/2022
Could Europe Turn Off Russian Gas?
The Ukraine invasion is forcing the European Union to completely rethink its energy policy. Tamasin Ford asks how easily the continent could wean itself off Russian fossil fuels.
03/06/2022
How war became a crime
Putin is violating a surprisingly powerful international law, and other nations are punishing him accordingly.
03/08/2022
The Future Turns Dark for Russia’s Oil Industry
An exodus by Western companies and disdain for Russian oil signal the start of a reckoning.
03/07/2022
How the tech community has rallied to Ukraine’s cyber-defence
From an army of volunteers to EU and Nato teams, the variety of online actors working for the cause is unprecedented.
03/04/2022
Stronger NATO, more decisive EU: What Putin’s war hath wrought
When a pro-NATO group in Finland began circulating a petition last week demanding a referendum on whether the traditionally non-aligned country should join the U.S.-led transatlantic defense alliance, the response was overwhelming.
03/07/2022
What Is a Nation?
Putin claims he is reuniting the Russian people. But nations have never been purely about ethnicity.
03/07/2022
The ‘end of history’ … again?
Beware of those declaring the world order has shifted or disappeared, pushing us toward another costly ‘generational’ conflict.
03/09/2022
How Putin Saved NATO: Adm. James Stavridis on Ukraine’s Effect on the West
"This conflict is going to give Putin everything he doesn’t want."
03/05/2022
It’s all about Ukraine
How have events in Eastern Europe been seen and understood in South-East Asia and what a does growing China - Russia axis means for the world and the region.
03/10/2022
What the war in Ukraine means for the world order
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has created previously unthinkable changes in geopolitics, seemingly overnight.
03/10/2022