Paulo Roberto da Silva Gomes Filho

Europe wakes up: the threat of Trump and the rebirth of European Defense

18Feb

By Paulo Roberto da Silva Gomes FilhoNo Comments

Americas, U.S, Europe, International Organizations, OTAN, Russia

Europe wakes up: the threat of Trump and the rebirth of European Defense

The former president and virtual presidential candidate for the Republican Party in the next United States elections, Donald Trump, provoked a political shockwave among the European allies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (OTAN). In a campaign speech, Trump declared that he had warned the leader of “an important European country” that, if he failed to pay his financial obligations to the Alliance, he, as President of the USA, would refuse to defend the European country against a potential Russian invasion. Trump even suggested that, in this case, could encourage Russia to “do whatever it wants”. When mentioning non-compliance with financial obligations, Trump refers to the Alliance directive, created at a summit meeting held in País de Gal...

7Jul

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Americas, Asia, China, U.S, Europe, UK, Russia, Ukraine

500 days of war in ukraine

Today, complete each other 500 days since Russian troops crossed Ukrainian borders, in 24 February of last year, in what they predicted would be a fulminating military action, with which they hoped to defeat the Ukrainian army, removing President Zelensky from power and replacing him with a ruler “friendly” to the Russian regime. The Russian invasion is blatantly illegal. Contrary, not minimum, three instruments of International Law to which the country is a signatory. The first is the UN Charter, specifically as provided for in no. 4 of article 2, which provides that “Members (da him) shall avoid in their international relations the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political dependence of any State.”. The second is the Budapest Memorandum, of 1994, in which...

1Jul

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Americas, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, OAS, Paraguay, Uruguay

For a South American integration

The leaders of the South American countries were in Brasilia for a meeting called by the Brazilian government. Regional cooperation and integration were the subjects discussed. The document released after the meeting, of nine paragraphs, announces only one decision: to establish a contact group, led by chancellors, for evaluating the experiences of South American integration mechanisms and the elaboration of a “road map” for the integration of South America. The need for South American integration is far from being a new issue. By the way, the very name of that portion of the Earth, "South America", already comes from an attempt to overcome concepts imposed from outside to within the region, as North Americans “Western Hemisphere”, or “Pan-Americanism”, in...

20May

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Europe, Finland, International Organizations, OTAN, Sweden

Finland and Sweden in NATO

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration the president of russia, Putin stated that, always made it quite clear that the main reason for the invasion of Ukraine was the threat that the country's possible NATO membership posed to Russia's security. The strong objection must not be, only, the fact that Ukraine is a country closely linked to Russia, with common historical roots, that would be moving away from the orbit of Russian influence towards the Western Alliance and the European Union. But, mainly, always according to President Putin's line of reasoning, it would be another step in NATO's continued expansion towards Russian borders.. After all, former former soviet republics, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, in addition to former Warsaw Pact allies, Poland, Bulgaria, Ro...

20Jan

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Europe, Russia, Ukraine

Tensions in Ukraine

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The new US military alliance, UK and Australia

14Oct

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Americas, Asia, Australia, China, U.S, Europe, Oceania, UK

The new US military alliance, UK and Australia

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (Photo montage) In day 15 of September, a statement made by President Joe Biden, with the virtual participation of British prime ministers, Boris Johnson, and Australian, Scott Morrison, caused protests from China and indignation in France: US and UK agreed to transfer to Australia the technology needed for the local production of nuclear-powered submarines. Chinese protests are understandable. After all, although the name of China was not mentioned at any time, it is obvious that Australia's possession of nuclear submarines is intended to contain the emerging Asian power, holder of the largest navy in the world in quantity of half....

Twenty years from the September 11 attacks 2001 to the United States of America

11Sep

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Americas, U.S

Twenty years from the September 11 attacks 2001 to the United States of America

For those over thirty, 11 September 2001 it's an unforgettable day. Few are the events unrelated to our personal lives that are etched in our memory in such a way that we remember exactly what we were doing when we received the news. In my case there are people, only two such events: the death of Ayrton Senna and the attacks that celebrate today's twenty years. The impact was huge due to the 2.977 dead, of 77 different nationalities (inclusive 5 Brazilians) and about 6 thousand injured, of gigantic financial losses, of surprise, of originality, it's because, even intuitively, people knew that from that moment on, the world would be different. After all, the United States of America was, at the time, the only superpower on the planet. Alive...

25Aug

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Afghanistan, Americas, Asia, China, U.S

Cemetery of Empires

US Air Force plane take off at Kabul Airport The scene looked familiar to Americans.. A helicopter of its Armed Forces flew over the US Embassy in a distant country, picked up passengers for a hasty evacuation, while the enemy approached from all sides. the troops, after long war, are returning home unable to celebrate the victory. The similarities between the Saigon retreat, at the end of the Vietnam War, and the withdrawal from Kabul last Sunday, 15 of August, marking the end of the Afghan War, are obvious and inescapable. Everything happened at an amazing speed. On an offensive of about ten days, the Taliban conquered all the provincial capitals and reached the capital of Afghanistan, obscene. President Ashraf Ghani fled p...

NATO and the shifts in the balance of world power

12Jul

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Europe, International Organizations, OTAN, Russia

NATO and the shifts in the balance of world power

Photo: REUTERS / Ints Kalnins On the last day 14 of June, the heads of government of 30 Allied countries that make up NATO met in Brussels. Reading the statement(1) provides a good understanding of how the most powerful military alliance in history views the current global situation., what threats they identify and what paths they will chart in defense matters, always keeping in view the three fundamental tasks of the Alliance: provide collective security, manage crises and strengthen security cooperation. Allies identify threats from all strategic directions, represented by the systemic competition of "authoritarian and assertive" powers; terrorism; state and non-state actors acting to undermine international order, or is it ...

World Defense Spending Continues to Grow, despite the pandemic

16Jun

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Americas, U.S

World Defense Spending Continues to Grow, despite the pandemic

President Biden has just sent his Defense budget proposal to the US Congress for 2022[1]. The document proposes a budget of US$ 752,9 billion, an increase of about 1,5% in relation to the expenses foreseen for the current year. In perfect alignment with the Defense Strategy[2] from the country, released on 2018, in which the war on terror lost importance and competition between states became the main concern of US national security, the budget proposal intends to provide the armed forces with the necessary resources to counteract the threats posed by China and Russia. Containing China received special priority. The initiative called “Pacific Deterrence Initiative”, or Pacific Deterrent Initiative, rec...