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Presidents Trump and Putin eventually had their first bilateral meeting, yesterday 07/16/2018 in Helsinki [ full video of the press conference ]. Supposedly, the Summit was going to set of a new course in the relationships between USA and Russia, marking the inversion of the negative trend established during Obama’s Presidency. Many Trump’s critics – in USA, most Democrat and Neocon politicians and commenters – questioned the opportunity of the Summit itself. They reacted with outrage to the final declarations that Trump released to the press, even going as far as ousting Trump as a traitor to the USA 1 , 2 . So, here we will look at facts and their implications. Was the Summit a success for any party? Who got the best advantages? Can Trump count it as a victory or was it a defeat? In which direction can we expect USA and Russia to evolve their foreign politics? First, of course, the meeting was an evident success of image for Russia and a personal success of Vladimir Putin. It...

The West awakes and abruptly - and eventually - notices the ongoing immigration crisis at its gates. Media and politic are focusing their and our attention to the borders, be them between USA and Mexico or Europe and Northern Africa and Middle East.  However, long waves come from afar and this situation has been developing for years. We mostly ignored the causes of this immigration, leaving them unchecked. Blitzkrieg on the economic front Some immigration is due to political chaos and ongoing conflicts. In many other cases, the reasons are economic. Choosing not to regulate the numbers and means of immigration, and not addressing its causes, we allowed it to become the major social issue that is presently confronting us. The issue is also moral and yet it also is made into a business with many illegal shades: moving immigrants closer to borders; employing them underpaid or leaving them without honest jobs at all, ready to be exploited by criminal organizat...