While the United States and the European Union are unified on the issue of Ukraine, the UAE has chosen a neutral posture, which has generated worry in Western capitals. Consequently, the Emirates, in pursuit of long-term economic growth, is taking an “easier” approach to commercial issues, bolstering its position as an international transportation hub connecting […]
Posts Tagged ‘wedge’
Washington’s and Kyiv’s Failed Attempt to Drive a “Fake News” Wedge between Kazakhstan and Russia
The well-informed reader need not be reminded of the United States’ “eagerness” to regain the positions it has lost in Central Asia in recent years. And of Washington’s incessant attempts to separate the former CIS republics and now independent Central Asian states from Russia for this reason. It is enough to recall the speech given […]
NZ Govt announces ‘First teens, then tots’ for the jab: the thin end of the wedge grows ever wider
As those of us watching have predicted all along, they plan to jab everybody with this experimental injection. We knew this simply because the PM assured us the government has purchased enough of it to give everybody 2 doses. Note you and your children are in fact the experiment. Both the NZ government, and governments […]
GOP seizes on women’s sports as unlikely wedge issue
“This issue will help [the] GOP win midterms,” said Stephen Miller, the former Trump White House aide who helped advise the former president on his CPAC speech. Some Republicans say touting the issue will unite two key elements of a winning electoral coalition: the party’s socially conservative base, which mostly rejects the expansion of gay […]
ICC tries to insert wedge between Israel and its allies
In a message posted late Monday night, the International Criminal Court appeared to try to inject a wedge between Israel and allies that support its position in the ongoing conflict with officials in The Hague, such as the US and Germany. In what was presented as a question-and-answer fact sheet, the ICC asked: “How does […]
Balfour anniversary drives a wedge into British consensus on Israel
This past week Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn snubbed a dinner invitation from the Jewish Leadership Council while Jonathan Arkush, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, sent an angry email to the UK Ambassador to the United Nations. Arthur Balfour and his infamous Declaration are to blame for both incidents. It doesn’t […]