Yesterday, August 30th, 2022, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the first and last President of…
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Upon the dramatic failure of perestroika, the ruse of NATO ‘non-enlargement’ associated with the Two-Plus-Four German unification treaty, and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact…
The German unification (or, more precisely, reunification) affair was many things to both Gorbachev, on a personal level as the head of state, and Russia.…
An in-depth scrutiny of the last two decades of the twentieth century is key to fathom contemporary Russian-Western relations. Twenty eventful years were the 1980s…
Rectification always begins with the recognition of error. Let’s face it; the United States has lost the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over one electoral…
On a nice spring day in the Garden of Eden, after breakfast, Adam took a nap—as it was his custom following every meal (obviously!). The…
Since time immemorial, as old as the transition from the pre-social to the post-social state of nature, as construed by Enlightenment philosophers, namely Jean-Jacques Rousseau…
The expression “making the best out of circumstances,” is usually relative; but in the case of Saudi and Turkish pragmatism towards the Ukraine crisis, it…
In an earlier contribution to IE Insights, “End of the Simulation: Human Consciousness and the Ukraine Crisis,” I have traced the origins of war to…









