The winds of change are now sweeping across Iceland. The island has finally come to terms with the volatile nature of current geopolitics as dictated by Trump’s vulgar realpolitik, Putin’s aggressive historical-political revisionism and China’s growing forays into the international arena. In response, the Icelandic Samfylkingin government is now planning to restart EU accession talks, which have been suspended since 2013. The process was abandoned in 2013 due to a standst

Let's begin with an overview of the current situation. South Ossetia is a region that seceded from Georgia and self-declared as an...