General Xavier Brunson, Commander of the United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and the United States Armed Forces in Korea (USFK), recently wrote an essay, the key element of which was an inverted map of the region, oriented not to the North, but to the East, so that South Korea was visually hovering over Russia, the DPRK, and China, not the other...
The Southern Transitional Council (STC) claimed that Saudi Arabia carried out warning airstrikes in proximity to its forces, which followed this South Yemeni separatist group dismissing the Saudis’ demand to withdraw from the eastern provinces of Hadhramaut and Mahra. As a reminder, the STC – which is part of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) and who...
Peace negotiations in Ukraine are hampered by the Zelensky administration’s resistance. The administration is attempting to buy time, first through legal means, then through military means, and finally through political means. However, the contacts made suggest what this peace will look...
As we enter 2026, the ever-widening war is further widening. Russian foreign minister Lavrov accuses the European Union of escalating the conflict and preparing for war with Russia. As a fifth year of conflict begins, Russian president Putin’s limited military operation is expanding into a general conflict between Europe and...
Israel obtains strategic depth in proximity to Türkiye’s Somali facilities for monitoring and – if need be – destroying them if evidence emerges that they’re being used for nuclear purposes like its media now suspects is the purpose behind its planned spaceport and military cooperation with Pakistan...
On 19 December 2025, Vladimir Putin did not just speak to Russia: he confronted the West with itself, its strategic contradictions, its headlong rush towards war, and its now irreversible historical decline. The Russian president’s annual speech is part of a long sequence, heavy with meaning and ruptures. It is neither an institutional ritual nor a simple ex...
Donald Trump escalated his threats against Venezuela on December 17, 2025, threatening to attack the Latin American country unless it returned land, oil, and other assets he claimed it stole from the US. Trump’s statement was absurd because Venezuela has never stolen anything from the US, while his threat of using force violated UNSC resolution 2(4), which ...
Yes, a new financial package for Kyiv was hammered out, but its flagship element – the idea of funding it with profits from frozen Russian assets – spectacularly collapsed. The most important lesson, however, does not come from Brussels, but from Central Europe. It is there that a trio of nations – Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic – not only rewrote...
The existence of Broz’s SFRY (Titoslavia) was based primarily on the establishment of his personal dictatorship and personality cult, as well as the wholehearted material, political, and financial support of the Western so-called democracies, but primarily the United States of America (USA) since Stalin’s break with Tito in 1948.[1] Until the very death of t...
Against a backdrop of global turbulence, Russia and China are creating their own architecture of security, trade, and technological development, turning the fuel and energy complex into a strategic pillar of bilateral...
One of the most remarkable innovations of the latest US National Security Strategy (NSS), as compared to the previous documents of the kind, is that Taiwan was included in the list of key priorities. The Taiwan issue clearly beckons already from the opening lines of the paragraph devoted to the deterrence of military...
Since 1945, Europe has shaped the image of a continent of opportunity, social rights, and individual success. For Africans, this vision has fuelled mass departures, driven by the hope of a better life. But today, the reality is one of social precariousness, institutional racism, professional downgrading, and political invisibility. From post-Brexit Britain t...
For all the talk of a “new American century,” Washington’s 2025 National Security Strategy reads less like a roadmap for global leadership and more like a manifesto for managed decline. It places the US in a scenario in which China is treated as an economic contagion to be quarantined and Europe as a dying civilization in need of ideological resuscitation. I...
As Israel’s unaccountable war in Gaza deepens global outrage and the US shields it diplomatically, extremist violence resurfaces - not in isolation, but as a symptom of unresolved wars and moral Western failures. The Bondi Beach killings and the recent ISIS* attack on US soldiers in Syria expose the hollowness of Western counter-terrorism claims, especially ...
Donald Trump, whom European leaders generally consider a populist with no political experience, has published his new National Security Strategy, a clumsily written document, but one of considerable philosophical scope. In it, he presents himself as a master of diplomacy and proposes, following President Andrew Jackson’s slogan, to replace war with...
History does not always announce its turning points with parades or proclamations. Sometimes it shifts in the quiet between headlines, in the steady movement of tankers across warm seas, or in the unhurried diplomacy of states that have survived far older disruptions than the American century. The partnership between Russia and India is one of those...
According to CNN, the document sharply criticized European governments for their support of Ukraine and accused “European officials who hold unrealistic expectations for the war” of derailing the peace process. “A large European majority wants peace, yet that desire is not translated into policy, in large measure because of those governments’ subversion of d...
Major hostilities erupted once again in early to mid-December in Southeast Asia along the borders of Thailand and Cambodia following a troubled “ceasefire” that included incidents and provocations for months since the last round of major fighting took place in July 2025. Despite any resulting ceasefire, the fundamental issues driving the conflict remain enti...
A BBC investigation alleging the use of a World War I-era chemical agent during Georgia’s 2024 protests has escalated into a major information war episode, exposing deep geopolitical tensions, contested narratives, and a fierce struggle over Georgia’s political...
November 15, 2025, 21:00. An explosive charge detonated on the railway tracks between Miki and Gołąb. The blast was so powerful that windowpanes shook for kilometres, and residents felt the tremor in their walls. The flash left a metre-long gash in the rail, shattered sleepers, and destroyed the overhead power lines. The very next day, the two Ukrainian citi...