Bear, Dragon, Elephant, Toucan, Nightingale stare down Goldfinger
Across the world, for those who grew up in the Cold War Swingin’ Sixties, the temptation is irresistible to cast Donald Trump as Goldfinger (but who would play Oddjob? Hegseth?)
Across the world, for those who grew up in the Cold War Swingin’ Sixties, the temptation is irresistible to cast Donald Trump as Goldfinger (but who would play Oddjob? Hegseth?)
Alexander Dugin marks Xi’s absence from BRICS as the hesitation of civilization-states, lingering at the threshold of multipolar destiny, still unready to speak with one voice.
The BRICS group is preparing to hold its summit in the city of Kazan, located at the summit of the Caucasus, from October 22 to 24. This summit will see the participation of the nine member countries, namely Russia, China, India, South Africa, and Brazil (founding countries), as well as Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates (new members). A large number of other countries also aspire to join the organization, which aims to break unipolarity and establish a multipolar world, to the detriment of a system dominated by the United States.
READERS were angry. I had rained on their parade by venturing that the appointment of a new party boss to head South-Africa’s dominant party was an insignificant game of musical chairs.
Many historians have addressed East/West tensions and conflicts during the Cold War as contested spheres between the U.S and U.S.S.R. These tensions not only shaped diplomacy, technological expansion and weapons, but also challenged ideology in t