Category: America

News and Analyses of events in the America region

Geopolitics of Africa in present cold war era

A number of countries including Nigeria, Ethiopia and South Africa are emerging as major countries which will have far reaching influence globally. Over the course of the next century, Africa is predicted to see tremendous population growth, which could result in enormous market potential. These 50 countries together constitute a major voting bloc in the United Nations; therefore, it follows that the West and its adversaries want them to back up their interpretations of whatever it may be in order to demonstrate to the rest of the world that a certain number of governments accept their positions.

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Categories: Africa / America / Western Europe

US arms supply to Ukraine is prolonging the war and destabilizing the world

According to the latest announcement from Joe Biden administration, the United States will give Ukraine extra security assistance worth $1 billion, which will be the largest one-time arms delivery since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This package provides a significant amount of additional ammunition for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), 75,000 rounds…

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Categories: America / Eastern Europe and Russia

Gas crisis in Europe: winter is coming

After an earthquake caused an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany would shut down its final three nuclear power plants by the end of the year. However, the foundation for this decision had already been laid by the previous Social Democrat-Green coalition government in 2000. In order to reach carbon reduction goals, it also intends to stop using coal power by 2038 at the latest, and preferably by 2035. Renewable energy source development, which surged at the beginning of the 2010s, has slowed down recently. Very recently, Germany, one of the biggest vocals of renewable and green energy, started firing up coal power plants. However, it was just the last year when Germany agreed to provide €237 million as soft loan for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Bangladesh, exclusively aimed at limiting the number and operation of traditional coal-based power plants.

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Categories: America / Eastern Europe and Russia / Western Europe

Why should Bangladesh be reticent of borrowing money from the IMF and the World Bank?

Is the nation and society merely a slave labor camp, a source of raw materials, and a captive market for the economies of the west, where the populace consumes goods, they do not produce? If not, society, the economy, and the politics must be built up to foster and direct everyone’s efforts toward a different set of objectives and the institutions that may help them be achieved. Before interacting with the economies of the west, Bangladesh, a big part of eastern civilizations, must also figure out how to group its competitive advantages, turn them into a market strength, and connect them regionally. New options must be dotted upon, to circumvent unfair and unjustified US-led western sanctions. If necessary, bilateral and multilateral trade must be carried through alternative currencies.

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Categories: America / Indo-Pacific regions / South Asia / Western Europe

Putin’s Iran visit and its geopolitical implications

Moscow is searching for new venues now that its connections to Europe have been severed, and the huge region of Middle East, with all of its intricacies, presents a welcome chance. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Algeria, Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia before the trips of the Russian President, where he also had meetings with peers from the nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council. At this time, it appears that Russia’s relations with the West, specifically Europe, are beyond repair, and Moscow appears to have undertaken a clear and decisive pivot eastward and southern, toward Asia. More importantly, Russia is acting as a guarantor to maintain the balance between Turkey, Iran and the Arab world. And for a proper balance, all parties are pursuing a strategy that can be described as compartmentalized policies for each country in order to achieve a greater collective result that satisfies domestic objectives.

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Categories: America / Eastern Europe and Russia / Indo-Pacific regions / Middle East

With sheer hypocrisy, USA picks its ‘human rights report’ to demonize the government of Bangladesh

The west led by the USA acts as the world’s police and courts. In the banner of “human rights stand superior to state sovereignty,” they always want to meddle in the internal affairs of other nations and will even go to war to achieve this. Many people’s human rights have been gravely abused by such actions all around the world. Tens of thousands of people have died and tens of thousands more have been hurt or made homeless in the Iraq War alone. Still, some western nations are willing to lecture others on human rights issues and criticize other nations they don’t agree with since they market themselves as “developed” and “democracy.”These western nations, who fought two world wars and arming to the teeth for the third, view “human rights” as their own concept and believe that it can only be established in accordance with their norms. Their hypocrisy, in the name of ‘human rights’, will have terrible effects on the global human rights movement and the implementation of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Categories: America / Indo-Pacific regions / South Asia

Is the war in Ukraine to blame for the global food crisis?

In 2021, over 193 million people in 53 countries/territories faced acute food insecurity (IPC/CH Phase 3-5; see Chart 1), according to the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2022). In comparison to the already record numbers of 2020, this is an almost 40 million increase. Over half a million people (570,000) in Ethiopia, southern Madagascar, South Sudan, and Yemen were identified as being in the most critical phase of acute food insecurity (IPC/CH Phase 5; see Chart 1) and required immediate assistance to avoid widespread livelihood collapse, famine, and death. The number of people encountering crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or higher; see Chart 1) approximately doubled between 2016 and 2021 when looking at the same 39 countries/territories represented in all editions of the report, with persistent increases each year since 2017.

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