STRATEGIC ALERT Service

The third week of trading on the stock markets in June ended with a spectacular 37% drop in the shares of Siemens Gamesa. The company, a merger since 2016 of the former wind power division of Siemens Energy and the Spanish wind power system producer Gamesa, had been incurring losses for some time by then, which led Siemens Energy to […]

King Charles III is making a dual killing on the “climate change” hoax: in financial profits from the monetary inflation it is causing, and in the people it is eliminating from the planet. As for the first, the Royal Family could be awarded £111 million from the wind farms built on the Crown Estate, a “windfall” profit of almost £24 […]

According to the latest figures from Brussels, the EU has given Kyiv €72 billion in economic, military, and humanitarian aid since February 2022, draining its coffers. Nonetheless, the European Commission announced in June that it would offer Kyiv an additional €50 billion in loans and grants. That move has been opposed by Hungary, whose Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on […]

Representatives from 53 African countries (all but one) and 12 international organizations attended the third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo, which ran from June 29-July 2 in Changsha, Hunan Province. This year’s event attracted 1,500 exhibitors, a jump of 70% compared to the previous Expo. Global Times pointed out that bilateral trade between China and African countries saw a 20-fold […]

Any evaluation of the strategic situation that is not based on the confrontation between Global NATO leaders and Russia, a nuclear power, with the threat of nuclear Armageddon in the equation, misses the point. The armed mutiny staged by Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin June 23-24 must be seen in this context, even if many aspects of it are not […]

Dmitry Trenin, a research professor at the Higher School of Economics and a lead research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, as well as a member of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), has weighed into the recent international debate surrounding the use of nuclear weapons, sparked by Sergei Karaganov in an article titled “A Difficult […]

The campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for Democratic presidential candidate has the potential to profoundly reshape the political landscape of the United States. That was evident in his first major foreign policy speech, delivered to an overflow crowd at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire, on June 20, in which he demolished the narratives of the infamous “powers […]

French President Macron convened June 22-23 in Paris 40 heads of state and government, leaders of major international organizations and financial institutions, as well as various CEOs and private investors, for a summit on launching a “new global financing pact”. The official objectives of the Summit were to reform the international financial system, to forge a “more balanced financial partnership […]

Brazilian President Lula da Silva upset more than one Western participant in his speech at the Paris June 22-23 Summit for a New Global Financing Pact (cf. previous item). The following excerpts suffice to give the flavor of it. “…I came here to speak about how, along with the climate issue, we have to raise the issue of global inequality. […]

After weeks of steady decline, popular support for all three parties in the government coalition combined is down to a dismal 38%. But what is even more remarkable is the rise of the opposition party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is up to 19% in the latest “Deutschlandtrend” poll carried out for German television by the Dimap agency. That puts […]