As Iran claims that it is restarting work on uranium enrichment in response to sweeping sanctions imposed by Donald Trump, it’s worth remembering that we have absolutely no idea where all the enriched uranium supposedly removed from Iran under the 2015 JCPOA agreement actually, you know, […]
Tag: Russia
Liberalism ain’t obsolete, Vlad – YOU are
Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president/prime minister/president for life, recently declared liberalism “obsolete” in an interview with the Financial Times. According to Putin, whose own political shelf life must surely be ticking down, liberalism is done for because it has “come into conflict with the […]
Hold Russian officials responsible for political prisoners
Between Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Crimea and Ukraine, the attempted assassinations of former Russian spies on British soil, and Russia’s control of a large proportion of Europe’s energy supply, Russia provides Western liberals plenty of reasons to be concerned. But they must be careful not to neglect an important group of victims of authoritarian repression: […]
Cheering on evil: Maduro’s American supporters
by Egoli “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke’s words were as apt in the 1700s as they are today. As someone who witnessed weeks- long protests outside the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC, I might add, far less […]
Sorry Finland: Don’t Be Happy, Worry
By Daniel McGroarty GeoPolicy Editor What’s the happiest country on Earth? The data is in: Finland. So says the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network in its new report. Yes, it’s really a thing. But Finland’s happy news comes as others speculate about an inarguably unhappy scenario – that Russia may be […]
Let’s Get Horizontal… Sanctions
While economic sanctions have traditionally targeted entire countries, Clara Portela of the Center for European Policy Studies notes the rise of “horizontal sanctions,” which can target individuals and entities in order to make the sanctions weapon more precise. Horizontal sanctions have been employed over Syrian chemical weapons and Russian agents’ attempt to assassinate […]