Section: The Frontier Post (Pakistan)
Behold, a world in distress through the lens – Part 1
(AP Photos) — A 64-year-old woman weeps, hugging her husband as he lay dying in the COVID-19 unit of a California hospital. A crowded refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, engulfed in flames, disgorges a string of migrants fleeing this hell on Earth. Rain-swept protesters, enraged by the death of George Floyd in police custody, rail against the system...
How Joe Biden can put US-Turkey relations back on track
Pinar Dost and Grady Wilson As Joe Biden prepares to occupy the White House on January 20, interested parties across the globe are speculating on how the new US administration will approach their specific issues and regions. Turkey, one of the United States’ most important NATO allies, is similarly awaiting a new administration with a...
US justice department moves to drop Flynn charges
Monitoring Desk The DOJ has said all legal action involving former Trump adviser Michael Flynn should cease in light of a full presidential pardon last week from “any and all” offenses connected to the Mueller investigation. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss charges against President Trump’s...
How will the future of US foreign policy and economic engagement affect Turkey?
Matthew Bryza The foundation of the US-Turkey partnership is centered on the NATO alliance. At times, US President Donald Trump has expressed skepticism about NATO, but at the same time his rhetoric has been credited by some for encouraging member states to meet their obligations to increase defense spending. Former Vice President Joe Biden,...
Trump says DoJ, FBI may have been in on large-scale voter fraud
WASHINGTON DC (Sputnik): The Trump campaign has accused Democratic Party officials in half-a-dozen battleground states of widespread election fraud, mostly involving mail-in ballots. Democrats, most legacy media, and even some Republicans have dismissed the allegations and urged the president to concede defeat. President Donald Trump has accused...
Ukraine arrives at a new anti-corruption crossroads
Miriam Kosmehl With Ukraine’s anti-corruption reforms finally beginning to produce results, the old elites have hit back. On October 27, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine declared unconstitutional the powers of the re-booted National Agency on Corruption Prevention to verify civil servants’ asset declarations. The ruling removes a...
How the West should deal with Russia
Alexander Vershbow, Daniel Fried “Wouldn’t it be nice if we got along with Russia?” Donald Trump, July 27, 2016. Getting along with Russia, as then-candidate Donald J. Trump suggested, would indeed be a good thing. But, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama tried and failed; US-Russian relations are not much better under Trump, and...
How Ukraine’s Orange Revolution shaped twenty-first century geopolitics
Peter Dickinson Ukrainians marked the Day of Dignity and Freedom on November 21, continuing a seven-year tradition that seeks to place the country’s 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in a broader historical context. This might also be something for the international community to consider. While Ukraine’s two...
Putin signs a decree against countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia
F.P. Report MOSCOW: According to the official sources, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree extending certain special economic actions against countries that have imposed sanctions on the Russian Federation until December 31, 2021, this statement was released on the official website of legal information. In addition to this, the...
Taming Ukraine’s oligarchs
Serhiy Verlanov Next year, Ukraine will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the country’s independence. Despite being widely tipped in the early 1990s to emerge as the most economically successful of the former Soviet republics, Ukraine has struggled to make the qualitative leap forward from authoritarian empire to European democracy. Instead...
