In her book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, the historian Barbara Tuchman explores the perplexing question of why countries sometimes pursue policies that are fundamentally contrary to their own interests. That question has acquired renewed relevance as Europe has now enlisted in a deepening march of folly over Ukraine. Failure to reject the march ...
Internal contradictions within NATO between the United States and the European Union place Turkey, the alliance’s sole Muslim member, in a challenging position. Since the era of the “sick man of Europe” (i.e., the 19th century), the Ottoman Empire and later the Republic of Turkey have linked their strategic security to a strong Western alliance against Russi...
Amidst the changing world order, the West has prompted its activities against China and Russia, the two rising global superpowers. Pakistan, due to its critical geostrategic location, has been at the center of the great power rivalry since its inception. The recent terrorist attack on a Pakistani train in Balochistan province is also a part of the great game...
For the “revisionist Zionists” (that is, the successors of Ze’ev Jabotinsky and Benzion Netanyahu – not to be confused with Theodor Hertzl’s “Zionists”), the time has come, after the victory over Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Assads, to crush Iran. On the contrary, for Donald Trump, after the pacification of the Ukrainian conflict, the priority must be to pacify...
In Russia, it was customary to understand the West as the Euro-Atlantic unity, that is, the alliance between the United States and Western Europe. Today, it has become quite obvious that this alliance is no more: both sides share numerous differences, first of all, their position on the Ukrainian conflict – Trump wants to achieve a settlement, while most Eur...
In 2025, strategic minerals, particularly rare earth elements (REEs), have once again entered the global spotlight. This is largely due to the policies of the 47th President of the United States, D. Trump, whose strategic calculus is not limited to Ukrainian REEs (which, admittedly, are rather scarce both in absolute and relative terms), but extends to Austr...
The events in the Middle East in recent months related to the successes of the Israel Defence Forces in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria, have, in one way or another, significantly undermined Iran’s position in the region. It cannot be said that Tehran lost the battle to Tel Aviv, but the active military and political support of the United States for Israel...
Even after being released from Israeli prisons, Palestinians cannot feel free. They are hunted, intimidated, rearrested, and killed. This is not mere retaliation—it is part of a long-term strategy of preemptive destruction. Israel’s military machine, supported by the West, has turned Palestinian lives into a living hell, where every day could be their last. ...
Lavrov made it crystal clear that his government views the conflict in Ukraine as a war between the US and Russia. This is despite the fact that the Trump administration is trying to portray itself as an honest broker between Russia and Ukraine in seeking a cease-fire. How can anyone doubt Lavrov’s assessment? The US has been behind the steady advancement of...
For a month, the accumulation of critical events around the United States, Ukraine and the European Union has been difficult to interpret because each power has been advancing in disguise. European leaders assume a stupid air by assuring that they continue to support the Ukrainian integral nationalists while Washington and Moscow have already agreed on a pea...
China is an advanced capitalist economy integrated into the world market. Wages for non-skilled labour in Chinese factories are as low as 300$ a month (or lower), a small fraction of the minimum wage in Western countries. The factory price of a commodity produced in China is of the order of 10% of the retail price in Western countries. Consequently, the larg...
On February 27 President Putin, in an address to FSB security officials, stated that the initial communication with the US administration “inspires certain hopes.” The world can understand what these hopes are, faint as they presently appear, the hope that the new American administration under Donald Trump has recognised its defeat in its war against Russia ...
Trump surprised many when he recently declared that he wants to restore the US’ military presence at Afghanistan’s Bagram Airbase and return some of the equipment that Biden left during the withdrawal. He justified the first on the basis that it’s just one hour away from where China makes (likely meaning bases) its nuclear weapons and claimed that it now all...
Hamas, or “Islamic Resistance Movement”, is a Palestinian political-national organization with a military wing of a conservative Islamic nature and orientation. Its purpose is to resist the Israeli occupation, maintain resistance, and fight for the creation of an independent Palestinian state. It was officially established on December 10, 1987, with the Gaza...
The EU swiftly responded to Trump’s decision to freeze all military aid to Ukraine by having European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen unveil the bloc’s “ReArm Europe Plan” the very next day. It calls for: 1) boosting Member States’ defense spending by 1.5% on average for a collective €650 billion more in the next four years; 2) offering them €150 b...
The outcome of the current Arab-Israeli military conflict remains murky. Turkey has shown active diplomacy by presenting new proposals for a political settlement of the Palestinian issue. What outcome can we expect from Ahmet Davutoğlu’s proposal? President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, after a month of restraint following the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip, def...
If an Iranian-US “New Détente” follows the nascent Russian-US one, brokered as it might be by Putin as a reciprocal favour to Trump for everything that he’s now boldly doing, then this would completely transform Western Eurasian geopolitics and consequently unlock exciting geo-economic...
The renewed tensions between the U.S. and China under Trump’s leadership has intensified global tensions – and are now reshaping trade policies and geopolitical dynamics. From allegations of espionage through TikTok, cozying up to Taiwan, and now the tariffs and technology bans, the US has effectively started a high-stakes battle with China – making ripples ...
First of all, “Europe” is under the control of Great Britain, as last weekend’s meeting called by British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer showed, where Starmer and his European counterparts, along with King Charles III, convened to welcome back Ukrainian faux-president Zelensky from the latter’s disastrous Oval Office smackdown by Trump. But make no mistake....
French President Macron’s declaration on Wednesday [March 5, 2025-ed] that he’s flirting with extending his country’s nuclear umbrella over other continental allies shows that he’s throwing down the gauntlet to Germany and Poland for leadership of post-conflict Europe. Outgoing German Chancellor Scholz published an hegemonic manifesto in December 2022 that l...
In a recent interview, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Aerospace Division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), addressed critical issues concerning Iran’s defense capabilities and its role in the modern world. This interview, widely broadcast on Iranian television, underscored Iran’s determination to counter external...
Previous Democratic administrations tried in every possible way to impose new ‘transgender ideas’. Trump immediately stated that there are only two sexes (male and female), and not 32, as the media shouted. All government agencies, schools and educational institutions are being instructed with this information (15,000 transgender people are already mere step...
There is nothing diplomatic when press statement organized by presidents, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky descend into direct verbal confrontation, as was seen in February 2025. The Trump-Zelensky meeting ended awfully with the formers stating “I think we have seen enough” following a heated verbal confrontation involving both presidents and the US vice ...
Observers were shocked on Wednesday after former Romanian presidential front-runner Calin Georgescu was temporarily detained and charged on six counts amidst police raids against some of his closest supporters as he was preparing to file for his candidacy in May’s election redux. The first round last December was annulled on the basis that an unnamed state a...
It was not Donald Trump who turned against the Kiev regime, as we are led to believe, but Volodymyr Zelensky who had US interests bombed, causing heavy damage to Chevron and ExxonMobil. It is therefore completely futile to believe that a visit to Washington will be enough for Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron to reverse the situation. It may seem absurd to at...
The primary fear among European leaders is geopolitical irrelevance. If the U.S. and Russia negotiate without European input, it clearly shows that Europe is merely a secondary actor in global affairs. This realisation is particularly painful for nations like France and Germany, which have long seen themselves as central players in international...
The recent declarations by U.S. officials regarding the war in Ukraine and the emerging multipolar world order have left Europe in a state of shock and uncertainty. Statements from President Trump, Defence Secretary Peter Hegseth, Vice President J.D. Vance, special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, Gen. Keith Kellogg, and Secretary of State Mark Rubio signal a ma...