As institutional trust erodes in the West, BRICS is betting that credibility and representativeness, not just financial weight, will shape the future of global governance. In this article, I explore the vision laid out in the summit’s final declaration, alongside perspectives and questions raised by experts from across the...
The 2025 BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro marked a pivotal moment in global geopolitics, delivering what observers describe as an “unusually unified and assertive vision” that challenges traditional Western dominance. The summit’s final communiqué exceeded expectations, presenting a detailed roadmap for economic, security, and governance reforms that position ...
We have to decide whether the Epstein story is child rape or Mossad blackmail. If “child” is defined as under the statutory age of female sexual consent, in the US depending on the state, a child is a female under 16 years of age, under 17 years of age, or under 18 years of age. In New York the age of female consent is 17. In Hawaii it is 16. Hawaii has a “c...
Taiwan is back in play. Amid global fires - from the bleeding edge of Eastern Europe to the anxious Mediterranean - Washington casts its gaze across the Pacific, as if searching for the next powder keg to ignite. The same old soundtrack plays: “democracy,” “values,” “freedom” - the familiar chorus that has accompanied every previous...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made sure he was in the UK for the signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries, also known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). This underscored the importance both nations attached to the culmination of hard negotiations that began...
President Donald Trump has accused former President Barack Obama of “treason” for his part in allegedly ordering US national security officials to diametrically reverse their assessment from “no Russian interference” to a Russian plot to tamper with and materially alter the outcome of the 2016 presidential election in order for Trump be denied the fruits of ...
America’s Common Man exists no more – gone and forgotten. Once he was lauded as the salt of the earth - our country’s embodiment of what made us special, of what made the great democratic experiment successful, of what made of the United States the magnetic pole for the world’s masses. Politicians paid their rhetorical respects, poets exalted him in paeans o...
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was the seventh president of the United States, winning election to the White House in 1828 and 1832 as candidate of the Democratic Party which Jackson helped to found. Jackson’s most important accomplishment, which had reverberations for decades to come, was the “Bank War,” when he destroyed the Second Bank of the United States. A...
It is often geopolitics that define geoeconomics. For example, the Arab Gulf monarchies, which are rich in oil, may not have got modern oil export dividends if developed countries were not interested in exporting the necessary production technologies for oil exploration, production and refining with access to world...
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar’s first official visit to Beijing since the border clashes with China in May 2020, and his talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, underscore the serious intent of both leading Global South powers to resolve ongoing bilateral issues - including territorial disputes - and to establish a new, pragmatic frame...
The United States turned Afghanistan into a nightmare through its war crimes during the so-called War on Terror. Several incidents of violence against civilians were reported during this two-decade-long war. The US and NATO started this war under the pretense of eliminating the global threat of terrorism by the Afghan Taliban. However, many analysts around t...
While the Trump administration doubles down on its ‘America First’ approach to reshaping global power dynamics, key allies like Australia are quietly charting their own course - rebalancing relations with China in ways that may diverge from Washington’s long-term strategy in the...
Many are struggling to make sense of Trump’s decision to clumsily thread the needle between radically escalating US involvement in the Ukrainian Conflict and walking away from it. The preceding hyperlinked analysis concluded that he was manipulated into this by his advisors, who exploited his false expectation that Putin would agree to a ceasefire that doesn...
Statements made by Benjamin Netanyahu in 2011 shed surprising light on his policy toward Iran. It could be that revisionist Zionists see themselves as protectors of the West. In this case, Iran’s ambition to master nuclear fusion would threaten transnational oil companies, and an attack on Iran would herald a future attack of...
Trump’s shift in position on Ukraine and his push to normalize relations with Russia caught Western European leaders off guard: to this day, they have been unable to adapt to the new circumstances. At the same time, they are doing everything they can to placate the American president. Meanwhile, Washington has been quite harsh in its words and actions toward...
Relations between Türkiye and Armenia remain burdened by the historical legacy of the Armenian Genocide of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, Türkiye is Azerbaijan’s main strategic ally and has taken on a firm pro-Azerbaijani position in the settlement of the Karabakh issue, which led to a forceful solution to the matter in favour of Baku. However, for Tü...
As the Ukraine conflict grinds on, Western analysts double down on tired narratives. Sir Lawrence Freedman, often hailed as Britain’s top strategic thinker, exemplifies this echo chamber - casting Putin as irrational while ignoring the deeper forces at play. His recent Foreign Affairs piece is less insight than ideology, cloaked in the language of...
On June 22, 2025, South Korean presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung announced that President Lee Jae-myung would not be participating in the NATO summit scheduled for June 24–25 in The Hague. She referred to domestic priorities and the escalating uncertainty in the Middle East as reasons for the...
In a context where China shows no sign of capitulating to the Atlantic bloc’s hybrid warfare, it can be assumed that Beijing has meticulously studied the nervous system of the 21st-century American Empire, and now possesses the means to deprive the American hegemon of the properties of the Phoenix bird. Three decades have passed since the reformist shift ini...
The South Asian region has gained significant geopolitical and geostrategic importance in recent years. The region has long held strategic geopolitical importance. Former US President Barack Obama’s ‘Pivot to Asia’ policy proved instrumental in increasing the region’s geostrategic weight. However, with the recent Pakistan-India war, and the ongoing Iran-Isra...
Russia has found itself in the difficult position of Thor. The Nordic god Thor, in the Castle of Utgaard, was requested to drink up a great horn filled with mead. He drank and he drank but he could not empty the horn – it turned out that it was connected to the sea. Likewise, Putin was pushed into a fight with Russia’s sister republic of Ukraine, but he prom...
The Rio Declaration that followed the latest BRICS Summit in that coastal Brazilian city saw all members, including China, condemn late April’s Pahalgam terrorist attack in paragraph 34: “We condemn in the strongest terms the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir on 22 April 2025”. This sharply contrasts with the draft SCO Defense Ministers’ joint statement ...
When Trump emerges from the depths of America, the world is not surprised — it assesses the consequences. This political restoration within the setting of “democracy” is not a historical whim, but a symptom. An empire that has lost its conscience is turning back to its old incantations. “America First” resonates like an echo of past doctrines: “to civilize”,...
This was done under the pretext of depriving Tehran of the ability to create nuclear weapons. There was and is no convincing evidence that Iran was going to produce an atomic bomb; the country’s authorities have repeatedly assured that they have no such intentions. In March, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard officially stated that American i...
Beneath the ceremonial trappings, awkward photo ops, and gherkin-flecked dinners, a serious transformation has taken root: the dismantling of Europe’s welfare model in favour of a vast militarised agenda, scripted in Washington and rubber-stamped by compliant European leaders. The core agreement - to raise defence-related spending to an eye-watering 5% of GD...
The American Commentariat is exploding with derisive accounts of US President Donald Trump’s ongoing series of phone conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. These accounts are characterized by claims that Trump is desperately trying to con Putin into surrendering Russia’s real interests by agreeing to a cease-fire in Ukraine and somehow going al...
Operations “The Rising Lion” and “Midnight Hammer” were demonstrations of force mobilizing considerable resources. They lasted no more than 12 days in total. Their results are unknown, but much has been learned about those who planned them. The International Atomic Energy Agency, which relied on AI software rather than the observations of its inspectors, is ...
Russian-Azerbaijani relations are in trouble as a result of two scandals. The first concerns the recent police raid against suspected ethnic Azeri criminals in Yekaterinburg, during which time two of them died in circumstances that are now being investigated. That prompted Baku to officially complain to Moscow, after which a vicious infowar campaign was laun...
Comments from experts at the Atlantic Council - an influential American think tank - paint a complex and contradictory picture of the situation. Founded in 1961 and known for its support of transatlantic policy, the Atlantic Council plays a key role in shaping Western strategic narratives. Yet even its experts cannot provide a clear assessment of the attacks...
The Soviet Union was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia in 1926. However, these relations later cooled down. Aside from the ups and downs after 1938, from 1979 onwards, reasons such as the Soviet-Afghan War, the Cold War, and Saudi Arabia’s support for Afghan mujahideen in close cooperation with the United States, ...
Bangladesh has been observing a significant transformation since the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid after a student uprising. The interim government has taken numerous steps to put an end to the controversial legacy of the former government. However, the recent ban on the Awami League could lead the country to political...