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Joaquin Flores

Educated in the field of IR and IPE at California State University Los Angeles; previously served as a business agent and organizer for the SEIU labor union; has published internationally on subjects of geopolitics, war, and diplomacy; serves as the director of the Belgrade-based Center for Syncretic Studies, and is Chief Editor at Fort Russ News.

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May 22, 2026
From Caesar to Napoleon III: Trump, Sorel and the Illusion of Progress

Trump reflects a modern Caesarism that must be evaluated by its ability to navigate the transition into the fourth industrial revolution, writes Joaquin Flores.

May 13, 2026
Un’Europa isolata non crede nemmeno alla propria messinscena: il vertice dell’EPC di maggio sotto la lente

La nuova politica cinese dei dazi zero verso tutti i Paesi africani con relazioni diplomatiche con Pechino mostra un modello di cooperazione fondato su apertura, sviluppo condiviso e rispetto della sovranità, smentendo la narrazione occidentale della “trappola del debito”.

May 7, 2026
Isolated Europe doesn’t even believe its own theatre: May’s EPC summit in review

The Yerevan summit appears not as a milestone but as a failed maintenance operation, a necessary rite to reaffirm the plausibility of a project whose practical limits have long since been reached.

April 30, 2026
Ancora un fallimento: la City di Londra appoggia il fondo da 90 miliardi di euro dell’UE per l’Ucraina

Il conflitto tra gli Stati membri e la Commissione europea potrebbe portare l’intera Unione al punto di rottura.

April 29, 2026
Mali on fire: Al Qaeda, Zelensky & Macron join forces in the Sahel

The recent Al-Qaeda and ALF offensive in Mali requires us to look at the region to understand the real state of things.

April 25, 2026
Still a failure: The City of London backs EU’s €90 billion Ukraine war-chest

The conflict between member states and the EC may push the whole union to the breaking point.

April 23, 2026
Indestructible Iran: What does D.C. want from Tehran? Regime change, total collapse, or a deal?

Trump sounds crazy, but he is not. He is, however, the product of an American empire that had gone completely mad.

April 14, 2026
The madness of King Trump: Decoding 47

Signals overlap and at times contradict, with real direction embedded across channels rather than declared outright.

April 14, 2026
Da Kiev a Belgrado e Budapest: la guerra si sta espandendo?

La crisi nell’Europa centrale e nei Balcani sembra destinata ad aggravarsi, ed è necessario dedicarle la dovuta attenzione.

April 9, 2026
From Kiev to Belgrade and Budapest: Is the war spreading?

The crisis in central Europe and the Balkans looks to intensify, and sufficient attention needs to turn to this.

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