Showing posts with label Soviet Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soviet Union. Show all posts

Monday, 24 January 2022

Here's why Russia might invade Ukraine and why US is involved in conflict

 Russia has amassed an estimated 100,000 troops along its border with Ukraine over the past several months

Photo: Bloomberg

U. S. President Joe Biden said on Jan. 19, 2022, that he thinks Russia will invade Ukraine, and cautioned Russian president Vladimir Putin that he “will regret having done it,” following months of building tension. Russia has amassed an estimated 100,000 troops along its border with Ukraine over the past several months. In mid-January, Russia began moving troops into Belarus, a country bordering both Russia and Ukraine, in preparation for joint military exercises in February.

Putin has issued various security demands to the U. S. before he draws his military forces back. Putin’s list includes a ban on Ukraine from entering NATO, and agreement that NATO will remove troops and weapons across much of Eastern Europe. There’s precedent for taking the threat seriously: Putin already annexed the Crimea portion of Ukraine in 2014. Ukraine’s layered history offers a window into the complex nation it is today — and why it is continuously under threat. As an Eastern Europe expert, I highlight five key points to keep in mind.

Wednesday, 22 May 2019

How will Trump’s trade war end? The US-UK war of 1812 may have the answer

The war of 1812 between US and United Kingdom might offer a more realistic comparison, say trade historians
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Photo: Reuters
President Donald Trump’s heightening exchange war against China has drawn a lot of recorded parallels. The Chinese like to summon the nineteenth century Opium Wars and the national mortification that pursued. In the U.S. the examination is progressively to the Cold War against the Soviet Union, or the 1980s exchange wars against Japan.
Ask Douglas Irwin, creator of “Conflicting Over Commerce: A History of U.S. Exchange Policy,” notwithstanding, and he contends the most exact examination from an American viewpoint is the War of 1812. That contention was conceived out of an exchange war (a British ban of France) and battled at any rate incompletely as an exchange war (a British bar of America). It likewise yielded another exchange war.
When the war was won, it incited requires a decoupling from a British economy with which America’s was profoundly coordinated, Irwin said. Furthermore, similar to the present calls identified with China, that depended on a greater existential inquiry for the U.S. “We needed to lessen our reliance on Britain, which was seen as an adversary control,” said Irwin, a teacher at Dartmouth.
Higher Stakes
Accordingly, Washington started forcing higher levies on British products to secure what it pronounced to be key U.S. ventures. That activity developed into makers’ calls for assurance from modest British imports that would turn into a component of political discussion through the nineteenth century.
You can contend the present monetary stakes are without a doubt a lot higher in esteem terms. In any case, the War of 1812 and the reliance on British industry at the time displayed a genuine existential inquiry. The British got right to Washington and set flame to the White House in 1814, all things considered.
Irwin isn’t confident about the fate of Trump’s China exchange war. He trusts a goals in the present moment is improbable. “On the off chance that you are truly looking for trouble routine change that is something no nation, especially one that is as nationalistic and glad as China, will convey on,” he said…
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14th BRICS summit to review current global issues, reach key agreements

  At the   14th BRICS summit   which is to be hosted by China in a virtual mode on 23-24 June, the member nations will review the current gl...