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Wer angesichts der eindrucksvollen Rede von Marko Martin ein paar für die 🇩🇪 Russlandpolitk bezeichnende Steinmeier-Zitate nachlesen will, verweise ich auf meinen Text von 2022. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

In a world that is going multipolar multiplex and through a polycrisis going non-aligned is a dead-end while multi-alignment offers better opportunities (see India).

Further to this, the key question is if voters tolerate budget cuts in other fields to cross-finance defence spending? Assuming that the new CDU led government keeps the #Schuldenbremse

Happy to see that tackling the #polycrisis is part of South Africa's #G20 presidency in 2025. DIRCO South Africa South African Institute of International Affairs IGD lets partner early on, we do have a large research project consisting of more than 20 universities in Africa and Europe #PolyCivis un.org/africarenewal/…

The US and Russia have both cast #UNSC vetoes this week, bringing the total this year to 7⃣. That is the highest figure since 9⃣ in 1989.

For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the world is heading into an era of depopulation—and this time, the coming implosion will be entirely due to choices made by people, writes Nicholas Eberstadt. fam.ag/48P7oWY

Inevitably if #UNSC is paralysed initiative will move to ad hoc arrangements fostering tendencies of #deinstitutionalization of the former: academic.oup.com/ia/article/100…

True but military & other 'cooperation' can be self-financing through granting mining concessions or others

Following a Russian veto on the #UNSC Resolution on #Sudan last week, our latest Ideas Indaba interrogates whether and how a repeat of similar use of veto on African files be averted. For further details 👉🏾bit.ly/3Vfm1gD

One can't say SA is underspending on education.

Russia mops up territory, Ukraine memberships.

Is SA foreign policy ready...?

I guess looming vetos and US transition to Trump make it a gamble to apply res 2719. So better wait a while...

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Glimpse of the new world order? Assad gone because great powers are busy with themselves.

Leaders of the West African regional grouping, Ecowas, have approved the withdrawal of three countries ruled by the military, but have also offered them six-months to reconsider. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are set to leave the bloc in January. 🔗⁠ bbc.in/4fBZnqp

France’s remaining permanent military bases in Africa have become a noose around Paris’s neck, hamstringing even the best thought-out French policies. Read Will Brown and Suzanne Tisserand's commentary 👇 buff.ly/3VKDkGP

#polycrisis

Nearly 200,000 conflict events were recorded in 2024, with over 233,000 fatalities estimated. ACLED experts unpack these findings, highlighting the 50 most extreme conflict zones & 10 crises shaping 2025. 🎥 Watch the Conflict Index & 2025 Watchlist now: youtu.be/YGUpenAoN1M