

Macron Pleads for Guarantees for Russia
President Macron’s polemical viewpoint aroused indignation in the East but reminds us of an objective reality: Russia will not give in easily on issues that are deemed crucial to its security.
President Macron’s polemical viewpoint aroused indignation in the East but reminds us of an objective reality: Russia will not give in easily on issues that are deemed crucial to its security.
The Pope’s trip to Kazakhstan opens a window of opportunity to have the ear of a man whose influence on the Kremlin is unparalleled.
The two countries had recalled their ambassadors in 2018, after Israeli forces killed several Palestinians protesting against the U.S. moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Whereas prudence emphasizes political or reasonable action adjusted to particular and contingent circumstances, liberal progressivism like other forms of modern rationalism sees global problems only in terms of universal panaceas.
In a tasteless social media post on Wednesday evening, Karl Pachner, the online managing director of the state-funded Austrian Broadcasting Corporation wrote that it would be a “great thing” if Orbán were to suffer a heart attack.
Moscow had promised to match expulsion measures; dozens of Western diplomats have already been expelled from Russia.
In a first visit to Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover last August, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke about economic cooperation between the two countries, and renewed his call to the U.S. to end sanctions.
The Department of Foreign Affairs said in a press release that the expulsion was because the diplomats’ “activities have not been in accordance with international standards of diplomatic behaviour. This action is being taken under Article 9 of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.”
On the eve of his diplomatic mission to Moscow, in a desperate bid for a de-escalation of tensions on Ukraine’s borders, Macron said that “the geopolitical objective of Russia today is clearly not Ukraine, but to clarify the rules of cohabitation with NATO and the EU.”
As a sovereign country, Ukraine is in its full right to make whatever constitutional reforms it sees fit. Their right to independence is as strong as is Russia’s right to national security. If one is weighed against the other, national sovereignty always wins.