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How and why do leaders choose war and destruction when they have the capacity for humanitarian gestures and cooperation? Why is it that more leaders don’t step forward

This is not the time for the narrow outlook of a bygone era but to unite to address the more urgent challenges faced By the world such as

Mutually assured destruction (MAD) is also no longer a maintainable strategy and this increases the risk of the use of nuclear weapons

The war will eventually come to an end, and no matter how it ends, the world will be somewhat changed

In this great game of Super Chicken, Putin won decisively and Biden was a pigeon

By Nita Chicooree-Mercier

The question after Ukraine’s experience is whether the US is more interested in an economics-based approach to foreign policy or a principles-based approach

Are there other unspoken rationales behind the promises of Western and US fury should Russia not kowtow to NATO’s growing encroachment into its immediate vicinity?

Has the Cold War not ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union? As a consequence, is NATO not an anachronistic vestige of the Cold War?

“Who could have imagined that it would simply collapse?” It’s been 30 years since the Soviet Union dissolved in the wake of a bungled reform effort by Mikhail

FW de Klerk as National Party conservative was paradoxically the right leader at the right time to relinquish white minority rule

Breakfast With Bwana

‘Many proclaim that America has already lost the war and that whereas she may win a battle here or there, the long-term outcome is a foregone conclusion’

Kul Bhushan — Letter from New Delhi Dr Helmut Kohl, who died on 16 June 2017 aged 87 years, was a big man. At six feet four inches,

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine pitching pro-Russians against Kiev, flanked by Vladimir Putin on one side, and unsurprisingly, Barack Obama on the other side, might prompt cynics once