The US economy is looking for a way out of a progressively suffocating situation. The approval of the Inflation Reduction Act, a mega-measure of 400,000 million dollars that will be financed with public debt, indicates the intention of the United States to return to state aid to its companies and, in perspective, to reconvert the mercantilist hysteria in force since 1989 in protectionism. Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: EE.UU. ¿La caída de los dioses?
En medio de la absoluta indiferencia de los peruanos y la escasa atención de los medios de comunicación, se celebró en Lima la 52ª Asamblea General de la OEA. Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: LA OEA ¿Y QUE?
The EU’s path towards a price cap for Russian hydrocarbons seems difficult. A unified reading for 27 countries, with 27 different energy realities, solely on the basis of a political motion, seems hardly credible. The Italian proposal to extend the price cap to all suppliers, regardless of their nationality, is followed by four other countries, while three believe that it should only apply to Russian gas (but this would be a new sanction on Russia, not a political energy saving). As the necessary unanimity did not exist, it was postponed to the mid-October meeting. If it was supposed to be a show of determination and unity, for now it is a sign of weakness and fragmentation. Continúa leyendo El Estrecho camino entre Bruselas y Samarcanda
The International Energy Agency, a structure dependent on the OECD, in its monthly report on the oil market, reports that the impact of Western sanctions on Russian energy exports has so far been essentially nil. The OECD – Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – is not based in Moscow. It is an organization based in Paris of which 36 countries are part, including the United States, almost the entire European Union, Japan, Australia and Canada, Mexico and Chile, Switzerland and Turkey. As of June 1, 2021, the Secretary General of the OECD is the Australian Mathias Cormann. Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: UE y RUSIA, LOS SANCIONADORES SANCIONADOS.
Russian demands for security guarantees were essentially ignored by NATO. Not only have they not been accepted, but the United States has provocatively deployed another 8,000 of its soldiers and their weapons systems in Poland, just to reiterate the US interest in the potential conflict. The basic idea that is maintained in Brussels and Washington is that American and Atlantic Alliance soldiers can go and settle wherever they want, up to the Russian borders, while Russian soldiers cannot even move within their own country. There is a security problem for Ukraine, but not for Russia. This is because Russian security cannot be put on the agenda, since the entire politico-military operation is precisely aimed at a broad and deep attack on Moscow’s political and military stability. Continúa leyendo KIEV: MORIRE PER WASHINGTON?
Greatly surprising the international community, Nicaragua has decided to reestablish diplomatic relations with China at the highest level and, in consecuense, break diplomatic relations with Taiwan, which have always been commercial, never political. It is no coincidence that Taiwan has never come out in support of Managua in the different stages of its political action and that it has never tried to pressure its main sponsor – the United States – who has always been reminded that the relationship was only about business. The free zone is the only portion of Nicaraguan territory that interested the Taiwanese, that are now only recognized by 13 countries, apart from the Vatican, of the 197 that make up the entire international community. Continúa leyendo EDITORIALE: MANAGUA – PECHINO, LA NUOVA ROTTA
