by Sara Flounders,* USA
(25 January 2023) (Edit.) In the USA, geopolitical strategies and current foreign policy actions of the US administration are critically analysed from different political perspective. The “Swiss Standpoint” is publishing various authors on this topic. In the following we are publishing Sara Flounders’ analysis of events in Japan.
by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India
(16 January 2023) The bipartisan consensus in the Beltway on the United States being the ‘indispensable’ world power is usually attributed to the neocons who have been the driving force of the US foreign and security policy in successive administrations since the 1970s.
by Stefan Hofer,* Switzerland
(16 January 2023) The war in Ukraine, like any war, is terrible and should be ended as soon as possible. However, one cannot assess this war and its political responsibility without first knowing and taking into account its origins. (Written in late December 2022)
by Jeffrey D. Sachs,* USA
(23 December 2022) The Ukraine War is an extremely dangerous war between nuclear superpowers in a world desperately in need of peace and cooperation.
There is a new glimmer of hope for a quick negotiated end to the war in Ukraine.
by Oskar Lafontaine,* Germany
(23 December 2022) In his government statement to the German Bundestag on 27 February 2022, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said: “In Kiev, Kharkiv, Odessa and Mariupol, people are not only defending their homeland. They are fighting for freedom and their democracy, for values that we share with them. As democrats, as Europeans, we stand by their side, on the right side of history.”
by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India
(16 December 2022) The time has come to pick up threads from my blog of January 27 titled The West co-opts the Taliban.1 Indeed, the wheel has come full circle since the three-day conclave in Oslo on January 23-25 between a core group of Western diplomats with Taliban officials failed to work out a reasonable modus vivendi. The pendulum has since swung to the other extreme.