The current governments of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom are weakening day by day. Recently, more and more people outside the continent have become convinced that the role of Western Europe in world affairs is in...
NATO is currently not interested in peace with the Russian Federation because NATO is comprised of functionally bankrupt destitute nations that are technocratic tyrannies run by wildly unpopular bureaucrats who are willing to sacrifice their own people to try to subdue Russia and plunder Russia’s...
In recent weeks, Western media outlets have returned to a familiar Cold War register, warning of “indoctrination camps” where Russian children are allegedly being militarized, “re-educated,” and turned into tools of Kremlin propaganda. The Guardian, among others, ran headlines describing a network of over 200 camps across Russia and occupied Ukraine. The lan...
We live in an age of satire – unintended self-satire. Events of profound consequence have a ridiculous quality to them that competes with our emotions of worry and dread. Trump’s America is not alone in this. Look across the Atlantic: a cosmopolitan all-star Vaudeville troupe struggling, as always, to keep up with its trans-Atlantic model and seigneur. The c...
The internal logic of any administration is to control what it administers. This implies that every administration considers censoring its opposition. In the Republic, on the contrary, political leaders must control their administrations and ensure that they respect the principles desired and approved by the population. However, today, European states - and ...
Trump finally went through with February’s threat to rescind his first term’s sanctions waiver for Iran’s Chabahar Port that was promulgated to help India aid Afghanistan’s reconstruction. That facility is partially run by India, which relies on it as the North-South Transport Corridor’s point of entry for connecting with the Central Asian Republics (CARs)...
August 2021 became a moment of truth not just for Afghanistan, but for the entire world. The images of the panicked flight of American soldiers from Kabul’s airport, the desperate attempts of Afghans to cling to the landing gear of a departing C-17 transport plane - these are not just news clips. They are the final verdict. They are the visible, tangible emb...
Contemporary history is full of international agreements signed by Western powers and systematically flouted as soon as they no longer serve their interests. The conflict in Ukraine, far from being a unilateral and sudden aggression as shamefully propagated by the Western mainstream media, is part of a long series of provocations, breaches of commitments, an...
After the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a less popular area of study as compared to the period 1949‒1991. In the West, it was believed that Russia was “finished” as Moscow was no longer the capital of a great power (USSR). Western policymakers thought that Russia would remain irrelevant as an economic and political power in global politics, ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is powering rapid economic transformation in the U.S., and globally. It is fuelling historic growth in GDP, investments, and productivity thus impacting every sector of the economy. In fact, it would be difficult to imagine life without AI in the next few years or even...
The term Middle Class has been completely denatured by a process of indiscriminate, promiscuous usage. It is a complex phenomenon whose examination reveals a number of current elements in the silent campaign against truth and honesty. It has become a synonym for the great mass of Americans who figure neither among the super-rich nor live below the poverty li...
Kidnapped words are the Janissaries of campaigns to promote an invented reality. Their original identities are obliterated. Worse, unlike the Ottoman Janissaries, figments of the past identity can be retained when its resonance is considered helpful. Words are kidnapped for two reasons. One is to slay them; the other is to exploit them. American politics off...
The parade at which the leaders of the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea stood hand in hand would be incomplete without a separate mention of the talks between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un. These lasted two and a half hours and in format resembled a summit-level meeting far more than the usual...
The cycle of celebrations tied to the SCO summit in Tianjin and the “80th anniversary of victory in the Anti-Japanese War” on September 3 became an important milestone in the shaping of the alliance of the Global South. As a Korea specialist, the author remains within his field of expertise and focuses his analysis on its “Korean...
Clearly, Malaysia is seeking to broaden its network of partners amid global political instability. For Malaysia, as for most ASEAN countries, the introduction of U.S. tariffs has been a significant blow. Donald Trump hesitates when dealing with equally powerful adversaries (for instance, he keeps delaying tariffs on China), but he doesn’t shy away from press...
Under President Trump’s renewed tenure, Washington is steadily reasserting its presence in Central Asia and its surrounding regions - an area long overlooked in recent US foreign policy. At the heart of this re-engagement is a significant infrastructure project in Armenia: a bridge already being dubbed the “Trump Bridge.” Backed by US funding and poised to t...
Putting Gulf states to shame, Israel’s attack on Qatar indicates the scale of its ambitions for the Middle East: it cannot tolerate any alternative power centre(s), be it Hamas or any sovereign state. The attack has put every Gulf state on Israel’s radar - something that could put the Netanyahu regime in the perfect position to push for its ultimate objectiv...
As we have seen, history often pivots on inflection points. The Euromaidan protests of 2013–2014 in Kyiv marked a significant paradigm shift toward Western institutions, sparking a cascade of conflict, sanctions, and estrangement between Russia and Europe. But what if those protests had not succeeded? What if Ukraine had remained in Moscow’s orbit, preservin...
The situation is paradoxical; at the moment of the strike, Hamas senior officials were discussing the US plan to resolve the Gaza conflict. Trump’s proposal provided for Hamas releasing all hostages on the first day (20 living and 28 corpses), Israel withdrawing troops from the entire territory of Gaza and the beginning of the liberation of about 1,000 Pales...
Canberra no longer pretends to independence: it willingly turns itself into a cog in an old war machine, whose blueprints are drafted in Washington and London. This subordination was once again codified in the joint communiqués of July 2025, where Canberra and London solemnly framed military dependence as “strategic...
The significance of this event is primarily due to the fact that its direct participants were three leading Asian powers that substantially shape developments across the entire Indo-Pacific. The situation there is evolving at unprecedented speed, generating various factors of uncertainty that sharply complicate the process of formulating strategies for all c...
Trump’s Eurasian grand strategy has sought to preemptively avert Russia’s potentially disproportionate dependence on China in order to avoid having its natural resources turbocharge the superpower trajectory of the US’ only systemic rival. In pursuit of this, the US envisaged entering into a resource-centric strategic partnership with Russia upon the end of ...
The after effects of years of lawless politics and lack of accountability among the political class and government servants are coming home to roost in Sri Lanka after the National Peoples Power (NPP) government led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) arrested former President Ranil Wickremesinghe on criminal charges for alleged misuse of public fund...
President Donald Trump, who had rebuffed Benjamin Netanyahu when he came to ask him to annex Gaza, is now preparing to take control of the Palestinian territory. While Tel Aviv is preparing to annex the entire Mandate of Palestine and, on the contrary, Egypt and Jordan are preparing to hand over the keys to the Palestinian Authority, a vast $100 billion real...
The commonly cited timeline of the Middle Cholas, including Rājarāja I and Rājendra I, needs to be revised. This has implications for accurately dating iconic monuments like the Brihadeeswara temple, built by Rājarāja I, and the Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple, built by Rājendra Chola...
In the current complex geopolitical situation, the vector of India’s foreign policy is increasingly shifting to the East. Despite the difficulties that have arisen in relations with the United States, New Delhi, in the current situation, is strengthening ties with its long-standing strategic partner, Tokyo, and is taking a course toward resolving bilateral p...
The Beijing Victory parade, marked by Xi, Putin, and Kim’s presence against the backdrop of empty Western seats, transformed memory into a geopolitical weapon and showcased Eurasia’s ascent as the West slipped into silence...
Not long ago, Indian military leaders were accusing China of covertly aiding Pakistan during a tense border conflict. Now, in what appears to be a twist of geopolitical irony, Donald Trump’s trade war is driving Beijing and New Delhi into cautious cooperation. But this diplomatic thaw is less about reconciliation and more about recalibration - two powers, pr...
The US punished India for its energy imports from Russia by imposing additional 25% tariffs on it, thus bringing their total tariffs to 50%, despite China and the EU being the largest respective importers of Russian oil and LNG according to Minister of External Affairs Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended this policy by accu...
The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion annually, second only to Social Security in the federal budget. The military outlay is also close to $1 trillion, consuming nearly half of the discretionary budget. As a sovereign nation, the United States co...