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India’s Russian Oil Gains Wiped Out by U.S. Tariffs, Threatening Trade and Jobs
BackgroundAccording to an analysis by Reuters, India benefited financially from increased imports of discounted Russian oil after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine,...
Pipelines and Politics: Energy Bargains Surface in U.S.-Russia Peace Push
Background
Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia’s energy sector has faced numerous international financial attacks and has been cut off from Western...
The End of New START: Is a New US-Russia Arms Race on the Horizon?
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the only remaining bilateral arms control agreement between the United States (US) and Russia, is set...
Ukraine: The War Nobody Knows How to End
Wars Are Easy to Start—and harder to End
Starting a war is simple; ending one is far harder. The problem of war termination has long...
The Alaska Summit and The Donbass: Is This The End?
Τhe Alaska Summit, on August 15, 2025, attracted media and diplomatic attention world-wide. Various theories have circulated; some viewed it as a “second Yalta”,...
Poland and the United States: An Alliance for International Stability
From NATO’s eastern frontier to the energy corridors of the Baltic, the partnership between Poland and the United States has become one of the...
Is it Time for a European Army?
Many have anticipated Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska with great attention last week (8/19/2025). After all, it was the first time that both...
The Week That Shaped Nothing: US, Russia, and Europe on Ukraine’s War
In a span of a week, global politics had gotten some big headlines. Last Friday, Putin and Trump met in Alaska. The anticipated summit...
Trump has won as Europe strives to cling to its last vestige of glory
The Alaska Summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin took place on August 15, 2025. The outcome of the...
Peace, But At What Price? The Struggles to Secure Ukraine’s Future
As of July 20th, 2025, debate over security guarantees for Ukraine has become central focus of ongoing peace discussions following the Trump-Putin Summit in...