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When I was a young boy, my elders would tell me stories about their childhood – how they chased after trucks carrying American soldiers, shouting the only English words they knew: “Give me chocolate.” Seven decades later, South Korea is one of the world’s freest and most industrialized nations. It is a remarkable success story, The post South Korea and the US: a critical alliance at a crossroads appeared first on Asia Times.

Theoretically, America – whether led by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump – should be trying to remain the world’s pre-eminent strategic power. In international relations theory, the realist outlook maintains that the international system of states compels individual states to seek as much power over other states as possible. This is the only way The post Apparent Trump vision: Divvy up the world into demarcated empires appeared first on Asia Times.

Both the Russian and the US side say that the high level diplomatic meeting held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the morning of February 17th was successful. Steve Witkoff, who is Trump’s number one troubleshooter, said that the meeting was “positive, upbeat, constructive and very solid.” Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister and counterpart to US The post ​US-Russia meeting in Riyadh successful, more to follow appeared first on Asia Times.

Ukraine carried out a large-scale drone strike against the partially US-owned Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s (CPC) pumping station in Russia’s Krasnodar region early Monday (February 17) morning. Few were hitherto aware of this project, let alone that it continued operating without any problems amidst the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine and the West’s anti-Russian sanctions, but it’s The post Risking Trump wrath, Ukraine bombs US oil project in Russia appeared first on Asia Times.