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?)
On March 19, 2025, the European Commission unveiled a report entitled “JOINT WHITE PAPER for European Defence Readiness 2030.”
Let’s start with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Road to Damascus moment:
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said during her visit to New Delhi on February 28 that a landmark free trade agreement between the EU and India could be concluded by the end of 2025. She also added pompously that “this visit marks the beginning of a new era. It is time to take our EU-India Strategic Partnership to the next level—for our security, prosperity, and for addressing global challenges together.”
On October 31 – November 1, 2024, Minsk hosted the second International Conference on Eurasian Security, where the “Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the XXI Century” was presented. The Forum was attended by President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who stressed that the unipolar world has ended and a new system of international security is needed. And since the West is guilty, first of all, of triggering off conflicts and offering “dead-end formulas,” a legitimate question arises – how and with whom to create a new security architecture?
How to do the impossible? America is instinctively an expansionist power, needing new fields to conquer; new financial horizons to master and to exploit. The U.S. is built that way. Always was.
The XVI BRICS Summit, held in Kazan on 22-24 October, 2024, showed excellent results and dynamics of unification.
We can be sure: one day not too far in the future, psychologists and psychiatrists will recognize a social pathology that has afflicted the governments of western countries in the period 2022 – year 20xx, a disease whose symptoms are madness, senseless actions, masochism and a euphoric exaltation of self-harm. This disease will be remembered as the ‘sanctions disease’, a fad that has normalized an unprecedentedly unhealthy lifestyle and policy.
Several years ago I came across a news article which shook me to the core. It was about a highly accomplished 104-year old British-Australian botanist, David Goodall. He travelled from Australia to Basel, Switzerland, to self-destruct by taking advantage of the liberal Swiss law which allows suicide on demand.
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