By Martin Michelot, courtesy of Europeum Reports that US Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, was heard saying that his job “was to destroy the EU” call into question the reality of this desire for a “reset”, but it is clear that Europeans will need to come to the table. Their current level […]
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The Great Decoupling: Digital Edition — Winnie the Pooh, Eric Cartman, Daryl Morey and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
by Daniel McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor What do Winnie the Pooh, Eric Cartman, Daryl Morey and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi all have in common? In a twist on Sesame Street’s “one of those things is not like all the others,” in this case, all of these things are not like the others. […]
Kremlins Out of the System: Russia will turn off outside Internet, turn it back on
Russia has long sought to establish a parallel, separate Internet minimizing U.S. control and influence, including Vkontakte, the Russian Facebook, and other social media copycats, as well as a separate “intranet” for the Russian military. Now the Russian government is preparing to test RuNet, an internal Internet infrastructure intended to allow the […]
TES Weekly Update: Russian Bear Gets Cozy In The Tropics
Meet your fuzzy new best friend everyone Vladimir Putin may have promised that the “Russian bear” will stick to the cold climes of Siberia, but perhaps he wasn’t being entirely truthful (shocking, shocking). It seems the famous ursine avatar is sniffing around the Middle East and Africa — and Russia’s moves in these regions […]
Keep an eye on Russian moves in Africa
“The Russia-Africa Summit: The next stage in the Kremlin’s Africa charm offensive” By Ivano di Carlo and Amanda Paul, courtesy of European Policy Centre On 23-24 October, over 40 African leaders and some 3,000 businessmen will gather in Sochi, Russia for the inaugural Russia-Africa Summit. […]
Russia muscling into Middle Eastern energy production
It’s widely acknowledged that Russia uses its vast supplies of oil and gas, along with its position athwart transit routes from Central Asia, as economic and diplomatic weapons, intimidating opponents in Western Europe and subordinating client states in Eastern Europe with the threat of cutting […]
Kremlins In the System: Russia is betting big on AI
A few years after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that whoever leads in artificial intelligence will “dominate the world,” Russia appears to be making a bid to do just that, with the creation of a formidable research apparatus drawing on leading technical experts from […]
Don’t worry about Serbia’s trade deals — democracy and rule of law are more pressing concerns
By Mihailo Gajic, Head of Research, LIBEK & TES Contributor On October 25th, Serbia will sign a trade deal with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), a Russian-backed trade federation — a mostly symbolic move which has however led to a widespread, and totally erroneous, belief that Serbia actually intends to […]
Pentagon needs to adapt to new tech landscape
In the good old days of the Cold War (well, old days at least) the Pentagon was a key driver of technological innovation, and its dominance was reflected in the structure of R&D and procurement programs. But the old bureaucracy is woefully unsuited to […]