A Russian Establishment View of the Ukraine War

Presentation by RAFAEL POCH and article by SERGUÉI KARAGANOV

To understand the war in Ukraine it is essential to know the points of view of all the warring parties. We understand that of Ukrainian nationalism defending its country against the imperial aggression of its neighbor and at the same time imposing its identity on the less nationalist regions accused of "collaborationism" with the invader.

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Normality and the anger of the extreme right mark the transition in Brazil

JUAN MIGUEL MUNOZ
Between roadblocks, demonstrations calling for a coup and the almost imperceptible rattling of sabers, the negotiations for the transition between the government of Jair Bolsonaro and the teams designated by the president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, are proceeding normally. Lula remains discreetly in the background, while the outgoing president has not appeared publicly since the day of an electoral defeat that he has not been able to assimilate. He has not yet publicly accepted the results, let alone congratulated his opponent. He surely he never will.

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Local elections in Taiwan: some results that can be extrapolated?

XULIO RIOS
The political map resulting from the local elections held in Taiwan predicts a "long year" of 14 months until the presidential elections of 2024. As happened four years ago, the KMT leaves with good feelings; and as then, to consummate the long-awaited "double" he will need to tread very thinly in the coming months if he does not want to destroy this victory.

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The lost years

RAPHAEL POCH
Instead of undertaking the necessary international concertation to face the challenges of the century, the global elites, and in the first place the Western powers, mobilize their societies to fight against their geopolitical rivals. In the great context of the relative decline of the Western power in the world and the transfer to Asia of a good part of that power, there is no other strategy than a reflex of panic, consistent with the well-known saying "the thief thinks that everyone belongs to him". same condition”. 

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Qaradawi and his Islamist legacy

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
On September 26, the influential thinker Yusuf al Qaradawi died in Qatar at the age of 96. It is not easy to give notice of the traces that throughout his long life he has left on contemporary Islam, of the phobias and philias that his words have aroused and arouse in detractors and followers, elites and ordinary people, and of the feelings that they awoke in regions prone to polarization.

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The two Taiwan elections

XULIO RIOS
Taiwan will hold local elections on November 26. The combination of an increase in continental pressure on several fronts and the hypothetical exaggeration of the threat by the US could lead to the sentiment of the Taiwanese that the possibility of a conflict is not remote but real, contrary to what they imagined until now.

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Venezuela and Colombia reactivate one of the most dynamic bilateral relations in Latin America

CLODOVALDO HERNANDEZ
Caracas
The meeting of Presidents Nicolás Maduro and Gustavo Petro put an end to a three-year hiatus in the intense historical, commercial and, above all, human bond between the two South American nations.

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