With a few rare exceptions, as of August 2024, almost every African state had a contract to supply Russian arms. And taking aid away from moderate states like Kenya or that are in a terrible civil war like Sudan not only does not honour Trump because it will cause so many people to die and create misery and Islamic extremism
Marketplaces are becoming more and more popular. They are a key hub for non-food sales. Department stores are in disarray. For Tik Tok, the issue of security should not be underestimated: the app has been used to try to destabilise the current government
Putin’s next targets are Moldova – whose history is unknown but significant – and especially Romania
Tariffs are a defensive weapon, a boomerang that will only cause inflation, especially in the US. And a country that does not know how to interface with others, except by force, is a weak country
“Does NATO make sense?” should not be posed to the Italian extreme left or extreme right, who are structurally ‘No NATO’, but to those who are close to the Russian border. And perhaps had to face the Red Army. To the citizens of Warsaw or Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, for example
Europeans need to reduce their dangerous dependence on an adversary or even enemy America. The only ones who have fully understood, long ago, what is really going on are the states bordering the former Soviet empire, such as Finland or the Baltic states
Right-wing journalists’ comments on the Oval Office attack: Trump looks like Hitler, Brezhnev or Don Vito Corleone. And the US economy shows the first signs of slowing down. Meanwhile, however, Donald Trump brutally freezes military aid to Ukraine to bring Volodymyr Zelensky to a ceasefire
Competition from China contributed to Trump’s assertion. It had a very strong negative impact on employment in some regions, particularly in the south, where industries requiring low-skilled labour were concentrated. The unemployed vote was intercepted by Trump. With isolationism, the Trump administration will undoubtedly manage the decline of the United States . With tariffs and inflation Trump ‘plays with fire’
Interest rates reached an exorbitant 21% at the end of October, inflation statistics are manipulated, oil revenues and reserves are dropping precipitously, and investments are stalled
“Drones and AI played a small but significant part in the very early stages of the conflict in Ukraine; they were new technologies with distinctly asymmetrical potential that bridged the gap with a much stronger aggressor… the conflict in Ukraine is a momentous turning point, as it demonstrated how quickly a relatively untrained military force can train and arm itself using commercially available and relatively inexpensive technologies
Products and distribution in Italy, investments and presence in Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Angola, Ghana, Egypt Kenya Tunisia and Ethiopia. ‘Food is not an economic issue, but a geopolitical one’ Federico Vecchioni, with the hope that agriculture in our country will not be abandoned
If small and medium-sized Italian companies have any chance of growth, stuck as they are in an economy that has been at a standstill for twenty years, they owe it to the great European project and its techno-bureaucratic construction. The EU has great advantages that we often take for granted
