Category: Victor Hvozd’s Geopolitical Diary

The Failure of the Missile Treaty. What’s Next?

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February 2, 2019, the USA has officially suspended the fulfillment of its obligations under the INF Treaty   Victor Hvozd At the pages of our “Borysfen Intel” Center’s website, we have already assessed the situation around the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty). However, the further development of events in this sphere requires a return to the touched upon theme. Moreover, it has become the subject of all sorts of political speculations. For example, February 2, 2019, the USA has officially suspended the fulfillment of its obligations under the INF Treaty. The reason for this was called “Moscow’s systematic continued noncompliance with the Treaty, while Washington…

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The Formation of a New World and the Crisis of Globalization

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Results of the World Economic Forum in Davos   Victor Hvozd Since the beginning of the 2010s, the main trend in the development of the geopolitical situation in the world has been the formation of a new multi-polar model of international relations. Thus, the USA’s sole leadership is being replaced by a new complex and dynamic system with several centers of power of the world and regional level. To date, the main ones are China, the United Europe, Russia, Japan, India, Brazil, South Africa and a number of other countries.…

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Ensuring the Country’s Security in the Postmodern World

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Peculiarities of the New National Intelligence Strategy of the United States   Victor Hvozd US leadership continues to thoroughly update a set of basic documents relevant to the country’s national security and defense. In general, this is, so to speak, a usual practice of every American administration. However, as we have noted in previous publications, during the  presidency of D. Trump, the content of such documents is fundamentally different if compared with those adopted by the previous US administration in 2013–2014. This first of all concerns the revision of the adversaries and a clearer definition of the threats to the United States, as well as the USA’s efforts to demonstrate…

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US Missile Defense Plans

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Problems and Consequences for the World   Victor Hvozd In mid-January 2019 President of the United States D. Trump unveiled the Missile Defense Review. The document defines the main threats to the United States’ security in the missile and nuclear sphere, as well as the plans for further development of US and NATO missile defense systems. The Review is fully in line with Washington’s vision of the need to strengthen the defense of the United States and its allies in the conditions of the proliferation of nuclear missile technologies in the world and their reaching a qualitatively new level. This was the reason for the USA’s withdrawal…

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Donald Trump’s “Equator”

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The Beginning of the US Election Campaign and Its Consequences   Victor Hvozd January 2019 marks exactly two years since D. Trump’s official becoming US President. In fact, this is the “equator” of his presidential term, which is usually the peak of the activities of the Master of the White House and the start of preparations for the new election (scheduled for 2020). However, unlike most other US Presidents, D. Trump’s “equator” coincided with a significant complication of the political situation in the United States, which is turning into a rigid confrontation between the two branches of power in the country. An example of this was the so-called “shutdown” — D. Trump’s next…

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Victor Hvozd’s book “Ukraine’s Military Intelligence at the Turn of the Third Millennium”

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The book “Ukraine’s Military Intelligence at the Turn of the Third Millennium” is no memoirs, it is sooner a retrospective study of the processes of the creation, formation, coming into being, development and functioning of the Military Intelligence for the first 26 years of Ukraine’s independence. It is an attempt to show the Military Intelligence’s place and role in building a modern Ukrainian state against the background of the geopolitical challenges at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. — I did not set myself the task to tell about…

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Victor Hvozd’s book “Ukraine’s Military Intelligence at the Turn of the Third Millennium”

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The book is available in printed form. The price of the book is 350 hryvnyas (including delivery). The book can be delivered by the “Nova Poshta” express delivery service. To pay for the book — use cashless payment form on our site (see below). To get the book you need to let us know (borysfenintel@gmail.com or by phone +38 /067/ 243-2807) the surname, first name and patronymic and the contact phone number of the recipient, the city and the “Nova Poshta”’s nearest office. As soon as we receive the bank…

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