Regardless of how any analyst perceives this pact, an additional layer of regional stability or a mere reactive token to send a message. It still signals a shift in Middle East security structures, a need for a boost in south-south cooperation architecture, and a receding unipolar world...
Britain, France, Germany, and Poland are usually the first countries to come to mind among those who discuss NATO’s containment of Russia, but the Netherlands and Belgium are quickly becoming important too. Rotterdam Port’s chief executive told the Financial Times in mid-summer that space will be reserved for ships carrying military supplies at NATO’s reques...
Africa today is a laboratory of an accelerated future, where solar panels are laid on the ground faster than Europe’s sleepy bureaucracies manage to approve yet another climate regulation. Chinese technologies are sprouting from African soil so rapidly that the myth of the West’s “green leadership” is tearing at the seams. A region long described as a fragil...
This was already his third European tour just this year. In February, Wang Yi paid visits to the United Kingdom and Ireland and also took part in the annual “Security Conference” in Munich. In early July, he represented the Chinese side at the 13th “China–EU Strategic Dialogue” held in Brussels, after which he visited Germany and...
It wasn’t expected, but the advocates of generalized war, the Straussians, expelled from the governing bodies of the United States, have regrouped in intergovernmental organizations. To everyone’s surprise, they are present in the European Union, but especially at the United Nations and in the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine. Institutions dedicated t...
Populist-nationalist politician Andrej Babis is poised to return to the premiership after his party’s victory in the latest elections. They lack a majority but are expected to build a coalition with some of the smaller parties that share their worldview. This is a major development since Czechia has been under liberal-globalist control since Babis lost re-el...
This question cannot be answered in the binary of yes or no. It has to be answered in the backdrop of the robust defence partnership that has grown during the last two decades between India and the US. Both the countries have signed several key agreements that enhance military cooperation, interoperability and strategic alignment between them. These...
Unknown drones recently flew in close proximity to Danish and Norwegian airports, prompting speculation among some that they were Russia’s delayed hybrid retaliation against NATO for backing Ukraine’s drone flights in proximity to Russia’s own airports over the past few years. No evidence has emerged in support of that hypothesis, but Zelensky still dishones...
The United States is escalating its confrontation with China under the guise of “deterring aggression,” while in reality reorienting its global strategy toward maintaining hegemony over Asia through destabilization, political manipulation, and military...
The relations between the United States and Afghanistan have been intense since the return of the Taliban to power. Both sides fought for around 2 decades in Afghanistan in the so-called “War on Terror.” This war concluded with a peace agreement in 2021, leading to the Taliban’s return to...
Trump’s claim that “the Prime Minister and Field Marshal of Pakistan… were with us right from the beginning” as the US devised its Gaza peace plan that he presented at the White House this week and Shehbaz Sharif’s public endorsement of its 20 points have raised eyebrows. After all, Pakistan has espoused some of the fieriest anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian ...
There’s little doubt that Ukraine has an interest in escalating NATO-Russian tensions through these means, including by employing anti-government Russian and Belarusian nationals in this reported plot, but it’s debatable whether Poland is involved in this and the extent to which it might be if...
Trump has created a crisis for U.S. agriculture with his Cold War weaponization of foreign trade with China and Russia, for manufacturing as a result of his steel and aluminum tariffs, for consumer price inflation mainly from his tariffs, and for affordable housing with his tax cuts that have kept long-term interest rates high for mortgages, auto and equipme...
The return of Robert Fico to the Slovak premiership nearly two years ago saw his country reverse its policy towards Ukraine from supporting Western warmongering to emulating Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s policy of calling for a quick end to hostilities. Some might therefore be surprised to learn that Fico pledged in early September to assist with W...