Mes: diciembre 2022

El populismo, el autoritarismo y la ideologización, se extienden como fuego en la pradera seca de la política global. En el caso de América Latina, existen indudables problemas que sirven de terreno abonado a ese fenómeno, tales como la pobreza, la injusta distribución del ingreso y la falta de oportunidades laborales, pero también es cierto que los regímenes autoritarios o populistas, especialmente los de izquierda radical, han terminado agravar tales problemas, como queda evidenciado en los casos de Cuba, Nicaragua y Venezuela, solo por señalar algunos.

Concluye el año 2022 bajo un entorno latinoamericano y mundial difícil. En lo internacional, el inicio en febrero pasado de la invasión rusa a Ucrania marcó uno de los hitos de mayor trascendencia geopolítica global. Los afanes imperiales de Putin no han tenido contemplaciones con el sufrido pueblo ucraniano, víctima de una implacable destrucción, crímenes de guerra y privaciones en servicios básicos como la electricidad y el agua. Putin está decidido, rayando en la obsesión, a masacrar a un pueblo valiente, y matarlo de hambre y frío, al mejor estilo estaliniano.

Las fuerzas de seguridad de la teocracia han asesinado a 476 personas, incluidos 64 niños y 34 mujeres, solo durante los dos primeros meses de las protestas

Sin haber puesto un solo hombre sobre el terreno y sin haber recibido la avalancha de refugiados que soporta Europa, los Estados Unidos han ganado claramente la guerra de Ucrania. Resucitan a la OTAN, consiguen la cohesión del mundo occidental sin cuyo liderazgo no puede hacer frente a Rusia y logran la adhesión inquebrantable de Europa a su proyecto global; todo eso sin haber disparado un solo tiro. Increíble.

This Fundación Alternativas report on European defence has been carried out at the proposal of the Foundation itself and has the support of SEGENPOL of the Spanish Ministry of Defence.
The main reason this report is being drawn up is the urgent need for an in-depth analysis to assess the current state of the question of the defence of a European Union in a rapidly shifting geopolitical environment.

Each december the leaders of China’s Communist Party gather to discuss their “economic work” for the year ahead. The lengthy statement they then release to the public provides a clue to their thinking and priorities. But by the time the leaders met on December 15th and 16th in Beijing, the most fateful economic choice of the next 12 months had already been made.

It was meant to be a bloodbath. When covid-19 struck in early 2020, economists warned that a wave of job-killing robots would sweep over the labour market, leading to high and structural unemployment. One prominent economist, in congressional testimony in the autumn, asserted that employers were ”substituting machines for workers”. A paper published by the imf in early 2021 said that such concerns “seem justified”. Surveys of firms suggested they had grand plans to invest in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

When the USSR dissolved in 1991, nobody pursued the possibility at the time, but two UN Members besides Russia thus were also, in principle, claimants to the USSR Security Council seat. Both already were present at the UN in 1991, and both had been there for the entirety of the UN’s history. Both were USSR Union Republics, Russia’s constitutional equals in that system.

“So let me tell Putin tonight what his own generals and ministers are probably too afraid to say,” declared Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, Britain’s chief of defence staff, on December 14th: “Russia faces a critical shortage of artillery munitions.” Ten days earlier Avril Haines, America’s top intelligence official, had offered a similar judgment. Is Russia running out of shells?

World leaders were quick to blame Moscow for explosions along the undersea natural gas pipelines. But some Western officials now doubt the Kremlin was responsible.