The more idiotic geo-policy analysis I read, the more I wonder where my honorary Ph.D. is. Take a recent Euronews bit concerning “bad old” Russia against “sweet little” France and the Americans in Chad, Mali, and the Sahel region overall. Former Aspen Institute director Nicolas Tenzer now blames Russia for France’s yo-yo policies…
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11.07.2015
What Good Can be Mali to Russia?
We ought to abandon the belief that politics and economics have eternal leaders: what position did China have mere 30 years ago? And where is it right now? What is happening before our eyes with once-powerful Europe? Where is the guarantee that in 30 years very…
01.02.2013
The Events in Mali. Part 2
Tuareg leaders could certainly have come up with the idea of forming their own state in Mali and parts of…
29.01.2013
The Events in Mali. Part 1
The media understand current events in Mali in the following terms. First of all, the political situation in Africa is…
22.01.2013
Mali: Islamists, Tuaregs and French interests
Carte blanche The UN Security Council supported the military operation France carried out in Mali on January 14 and gave…
