German state media reports: Iranian revolutionary guards will be classified as a terror organization "like Hamas" by the EU. France has given up the opposition on this matter in the EU parliament. Additional sanctions will be placed on Iran.
Essentially positions on nuclear negotiations and the ballistic missile arsenal of Iran remain frozen, leading to contradictory positions on Iran in the middle east.
At the moment, as far as I know, EU nations have no massive military presence in the middle east, so the majority of fighting against the newly classified terrorists would be done by the US and Israel with diplomatic/economic/symbolic support. Maybe we can also view the EU trade deal with India in this context, giving India an alternative market to Iran/Central Asia in case of prolonged war.
Also EU support against Iran can be viewed as an attempt to improve US-EU relations, which got a little worse recently.
I just can not see that happening at the moment. How can the Kuomintang still believe they will control mainland China without a major War if they are anti CPC?
Japan and the EU will get heavy damage as well, not just China. Maybe even more. Is there a way to quantify the damage this does do exporting economies? (Percentage of Export to destination market) * (weak currency Debuff)?
Sounds like very important news that is ignored for some reason to me... Guatemala is close to Venezuela Columbia and might be used as a future staging ground for US forces?
This is so weird to me. The relation between Canada and the US always appeared so stable to me from the outside, and now it is changing this fast? Is this all empty talk?
I mean if Canada really has no choice here, why do they not already comply and get the jets?
The grind continues, this is attrition at this stage. I think the statistics show the winter temperatures slow down the territorial changes, while it accelerates in the summer.
I think it is somewhat about national pride for Trump/U.S. . "Look, China, what did you make me do, we can still dominate anyone we choose and extract concessions: Even from our allies, so we will do so doubly for our enemies." Demonstrating who really is in control of global events to China. More a message than an action.
Yeah this turkish state backed source loves Turkeys Erdogan (who is an extreme economic liberal without term-limits) in its other articles and his heavily biased, but they publish some stuff on Syria and Palestine I found not published on mainstream sources .
Trump: Uses foreign policy to turn up domestic pressure. (I do not think he does it for purely geopolitical reasons but rather to mock the U.S. congress/states and expand presidential powers to prepare for midterms.)
Many leaders in the EU: still believe in transatlantic alliance; Pivot their export based economies completely to US markets, while ignoring Africa completely.
Does China have a full employment policy? Which countries have such a policy nowadays?