What happened with the US drone that was shot down by Russia?
Last Tuesday, on March 14, a US drone crashed into the water around 100 km south of Crimea after two Russian Su-27 jet fighters...
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- Feb 25
- 2 min
China's peace points for Ukraine and its plan to get more involved in the war
The main purpose of Beijing's strategic partnership with Russia is to counter Western political hegemony in the world. On the economic...
- Feb 17
- 4 min
What are the peace proposals for the war in Ukraine?
In December 2021, Putin issued a threat to the West asking for security guarantees. This happened two years after Zelensky changed the...
- Feb 8
- 4 min
How valid are the referendums in eastern Ukraine used to justify Russia's annexation?
When the Soviet Union splitted in 1991, Ukraine found itself harboring hundreds of nuclear weapons that the Kremlin had placed there...
- Jan 27
- 4 min
Why Turkey is saying no to Sweden for NATO membership?
Sweden and Finland applied in May last year to join NATO following Russiaās invasion of Ukraine, ending their official military...
- Jan 24
- 3 min
Why many European countries are getting angry against Germany?
Germany exports one of the best battle tanks in the world, the Leopard 2. The private producer, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, has delivered...
- Dec 24, 2022
- 4 min
What is happening in Peru with the crisis?
In April 2021, Pedro Castillo, a former rural school teacher, union leader and son of illiterate parents, who moved to the capital Lima...
- Dec 15, 2022
- 5 min
Morocco's decolonization fight with France and Spain, and its invasion of Western Sahara
Morocco had been ruled by different Muslim dynasties as an empire since the 9th century, dominating Muslim Spain and all northern Africa,...
- Dec 6, 2022
- 4 min
Sanctions on Russia explained: the new oil cap price and other considerations
This week, G7 member states (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and US), plus Australia and the whole EU (without Hungary,...
- Nov 28, 2022
- 2 min
Why has China enforced a "zero Covid" policy that is resulting in rare massive protests?
Chinese vaccines are basically the only ones authorized for common use in the country. For people over 80 years old, these are just 30%...
- Nov 20, 2022
- 6 min
Qatar's World Cup scandals
According to many ways of measuring real GDP per capita, Qatar, located in the Arabian Peninsula, has been among the top 5 richest...
- Nov 8, 2022
- 8 min
Why is North Korea launching so many missiles?
The peninsula of Korea became a colony of the Japanese Empire in 1910. Many nationalist groups emerged seeking independence, but they...
- Oct 27, 2022
- 5 min
The political chaos in the UK: from Brexit to Liz Truss's resignation
After WW2, the United Kingdom was struggling to recover its economic prosperity and its empire was vanishing in Africa and Asia with the...
- Oct 19, 2022
- 5 min
Why are Armenia and Azerbaijan fighting a war?
Armenia has a long history of being home to ancient civilizations, and in the year 301 AC, it became the first state in the world to...
- Oct 11, 2022
- 5 min
Why are there so many protests in Iran?
Iran, known mostly until mid-20th century as Persia, has the longest record of being home to major civilizations without interruption...
- Oct 6, 2022
- 5 min
The battle for the presidency in Brazil
In 2018, Brazil elected a far-right president named Jair Bolsonaro, a former soldier under the Brazilian military dictatorship that...
- Sep 29, 2022
- 3 min
What is happening with the explosions of Russian pipelines in the Baltic Sea?
On Monday of this week, at least four major explosions were registered along the gas pipelines Nordstream 1 & 2 that run underwater on...
- Sep 22, 2022
- 7 min
Why did the extreme right won the latest elections in Sweden?
Sweden has been one of the most progressive countries in the world since it became a full liberal democracy in 1921, when the parliament...
- Sep 10, 2022
- 4 min
The countries where the British monarchy has political power
The British Empire became the largest in human history, reaching its peak of expansion in 1922 covering 25% of the world's land surface,...
- Sep 2, 2022
- 5 min
Iraq: From the US invasion of 1990 to the storming of the Parliament in 2022
The United States was the undeniable superpower that had defeated the communist bloc with an aggressive military strategy and promoting a...
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