Tag: Foreign Policy
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Fareed Zakaria’s analysis of the President Biden’s strategy in the Near East is spot on
CNN journalist and broadcaster Fareed Zakaria has made a very reasonable and concise analysis of President Biden’s strategy in the Near East, describing it as a strategy namely marked by methods of political de-escalation as it seeks to avoid a wider military conflict in the region. There is, of course, another side to the argument…
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Francis Fukuyama writes an endorsement of Giorgia Meloni’s foreign policy
Francis Fukuyama is endorsing Giorgia Meloni’s foreign policy after she decided to remove Italy from China’s “Belt and Road” initiative. Getting an endorsement by Fukuyama, basically, means you are getting an endorsement by the world’s top foreign policy expert. Mark CamilleriWebsite Editor Historian and Publisher
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Turning Ukraine into a populist issue
Labour’s MEP election candidate Clint Flores is following in Cyrus Engerer’s footsteps and turning Ukraine into a populist issue about EU funds supposedly meant for Malta. After billions of euros in pandemic relief by the European Union and more billions of Euros in liquidity and public-debt buying by the ECB, Maltese Labour MPs are conjuring…
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Malta’s position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine has moved in the correct position
Malta’s position on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is correct and marks a radical change from its previous position as held by the previous Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo that peace talks should be held “without preconditions”. Prime Minister Robert Abela had also refrained from calling on Russian troops to leave Ukraine and also referred to the…
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The Pope that lost the plot
When the Jesuit and Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was appointed Pope in 2013, it seemed that the Vatican was leaning toward a more liberal position. Indeed, the head of the Catholic Church has taken various bold positions which have irked the conservative forces in the Church most notably his increasing acceptance of the LGBT…
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Get history wrong, get your foreign policy wrong
Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron made his annual speech to the diplomatic corps and outlined France’s foreign policy by referring to history. All of Macron’s quoted history in his speech is incorrect. Grossly incorrect, and I’m honestly, surprised how his speech writers couldn’t have spun the message in a fraudulently better way. He says,…
