Arquivos de 16 jun 2025

The dangers of a rapid drawdown in American forces.

Trump is only the latest to embrace a costly and immoral tactic.

Its spread is distorting and diminishing U.S. soft power.

The Brazilian BRICS summit should be recognised as quite successful both in promoting new topics on the agenda and in the declared common approaches, which more clearly than before reflect the position of the countries of the Global Non-West and the South in world politics, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Oleg Barabanov.

We should first temper our tendency to frame global political evolution as a contest between rival systems. While this struggle remains significant – manifest in responses to inequality (domestic and global), neo-colonial exploitation, digital colonialism, Western disregard for international law, and the imposition of “might makes right” logic – we must avoid mimicking the West’s polarizing tactics, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei […]

The twelve-day Iranian-Israeli military conflict has demonstrated that no bombing campaign can completely destroy Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. Hypothetically, this is only possible as a result of a military ground operation, which neither Israel nor the United States are ready to initiate. The only way to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem is through political and diplomatic […]