Trump made his first visit as head of state to Saudi Arabia. In Riyadh, he signed the largest military equipment deal in history, worth a total of $350 billion (or at least a preliminary agreement for it). It is important to note that as president of the largest economy and military …
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How Qatar is buying up part of the French political class. Look at this Old Europe, which invented a “Cooperation and Verification Mechanism” to criticize and teach backward Eastern Europeans about democracy and Euro-Atlantic values. On October 20, 2016, a scandalous book with the intriguing title “Our Very Dear …
More »The Iran-US deal in the balance
The agreement on Iran's nuclear program with the P5+1 countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, is probably the most important geopolitical event of the past year. After nearly a decade of increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic, the negotiations on the principle of the "big stick" have yielded results. With the Iranian economy …
More »Saudi Arabia amidst international quicksand
During my meeting with Ibrahim Al Muhanna, the chief advisor to the Saudi Arabian oil minister, I noticed that the book on his desk was “The Quest” by one of the great energy analysts, Daniel Yergin. His spacey discussion of hot topics in global energy is often …
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