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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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June 19, 2026
Un bivio armeno che nessuno costruirà

Pashinyan, in Armenia, ha vinto le elezioni ma si è ritrovato con una situazione intricata. Riuscirà a destreggiarsi tra il commercio con l’UE, il TRIPP statunitense e l’energia russa, oppure la sua scommessa sull’Occidente crollerà sotto il peso della crisi costituzionale, delle frontiere chiuse e di un’opposizione frammentata?

June 15, 2026
An Armenian Crossroads that no one will build

Armenia’s Pashinyan won the election but inherited a cage. Can he juggle EU trade, U.S. TRIPP, and Russian energy – or will his Western gamble collapse under constitutional crisis, closed borders, and a broken opposition?

May 30, 2026
Da Cesare a Napoleone III: Trump, Sorel e l’illusione del progresso

Trump incarna un cesarismo moderno che va valutato in base alla sua capacità di guidare la transizione verso la quarta rivoluzione industriale, scrive Joaquin Flores.

May 29, 2026
Vučić in China has made Europe’s eyes bleed

The official state visit of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić to Beijing has predictably outraged the London-Berlin-Paris axis

May 23, 2026
Zelensky’s terrorism reassures Western backers, but can peace really stop it? Perils of a Digital Ukraine

Zelensky’s terrorist threats are not only aimed at Russia, but at his own Western backers as well.

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.

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