In American politics, crucial questions arise in the run-up to the presidential election in November. Next week, Tuesday’s Republican primary in 15 states will determine the balance of power between Donald Trump and his staunch opponent Nikki Haley, who came out beaten from the polls in “her own” South Carolina, but still intends to challenge the former president. To try, rumor has it, to push him to form togheter a ticket to the White House. Alberto Negri takes us to the other side of the world, to Pakistan, a historically troubled nuclear power, where the victory of the party of Imran Khan, the prime minister ousted and jailed on corruption charges, marks the defeat of the military apparatus that for decades has controlled the world’s fifth most populous country. Ten years ago, regime change in Kiev took place: in Fulvio Scaglione’s reconstruction, the black thread brings politicians and oligarchs together to overthrow Yanukovych.
Alessandro Cassieri
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