We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
The war in Ukraine is a war over Europe
Fearful of the growing links through energy supply and infrastructure plans like the Belt and Road Initiative, the US has sought to drive a wedge between Europe and the East once more — the current conflict is part of that, explains VIJAY PRASHAD
The war in Ukraine is a war over Europe
In a revealing speech, Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy behind the tariff policy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US world hegemony, reports MARC VANDEPITTE
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THE war in Ukraine is not a simple war. This is not a war merely between two neighbours about a border dispute. It is a complex war, a war not only between Russia and Ukraine but also a war that involves the US and Nato — the Trojan Horse of the US. The battlefield is Ukraine, but it is not only Ukraine. The battlefield, in fact, is all of Europe.
Europe as a subordinate ally of the US
At the end of the second world war, the US extended its military power through a series of collective security arrangements — the Rio Pact of 1947 to the Baghdad Pact of 1955. One of these was Nato, formed in 1949.
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