Supporters of the Democratic Party have yet to fully recover from their electoral defeat and have failed to propose any constructive alternative agenda. Instead, their attacks have boiled down to accusing Republicans of acting against America’s interests. A prime example of this approach is a May 1 editorial in The New York Times, which argued that Trump’s e...
US President Donald Trump’s skipping Israel in his trip to the Middle East starting on May 13, 2025 could be more dangerous than its superficial impression, as it amplifies a false US-Israel split, allowing the latter to take a reckless military action while shielding the US from military and political responsibility. This action follows others suggesting a ...
Putin warned in March 2024 that Russia might set up a “security zone” inside Ukraine in response to cross-border strikes and raids, which it then began to do two months later that May after Russian troops made a fresh push into Kharkov Region at the time. Regrettably, the incursion didn’t penetrate too deeply, and later that summer Ukraine launched a sneak a...
The history of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) formation in Türkiye in 1978 and the nomination of Abdullah Öcalan as party leader is unknown to the general public. Moreover, the formation of this political structure and its armed units remains in the archives of the special services. Nevertheless, despite decades of armed struggle, Öcalan remained unsca...
Foreign Affairs warned earlier this month that an emboldened and remilitarized Germany could pose another challenge to European stability. They’re convinced that former Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s “Zeitenwende”, or historic turning point, “is real this time” in the sense that his successor Friedrich Merz now has the parliamentary and popular support to transfor...
On May 16th, 2025, American, Russian, and Ukrainian delegates met in Istanbul for Ukraine-Russia peace talks. In the run-up to the conference, the grandstanding of Ukraine’s Zelensky and other Western leaders created an undue level of tension. The result of the high-level talks only served to prove Russia’s point all along – Ukraine is just stalling for...
Many journalists pretend not to understand what is happening in Washington. For them, Elon Musk and Donald Trump are appropriating what they can of the federal government without changing anything. The reality is quite different: the President of the United States is trying to dismantle the imperialism his country displays. He is destroying the agencies, bot...
Alexei Zakharov is a respected Russian expert on South Asia who serves as a Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation’s Strategic Studies Programme, which is one of India’s top think tanks. He recently published an insightful piece titled, “Can India rely on Russia to diplomatically isolate Pakistan? It seems unlikely”, which candidly explains Russia’s neut...
The destiny of warfare depends on actors’ relative capabilities. By definition, different capabilities are the means of the actor in international relations to achieve certain goals. Some of those capabilities can be tangible and easy to measure, but others (such as morale or leadership) can be intangible and can only be estimated in practice.
Concerning gl...
The New York Times published an informative piece on Tuesday titled, “As Trump Crows Over Ending a Conflict, India’s Leaders Feel Betrayed”. It cites former Indian officials and unnamed incumbent ones who agree that Trump’s repeated boasts about mediating the end of the latest Indo-Pak conflict imply that the US is once again equating, or hyphenating, the tw...
The Western war party, made up of outright vassals and those who fiercely long for the unipolar era, is in a state of confusion - not because their Washington boss betrayed some pseudo-ideals, but simply because the current U.S. administration is trying to minimize its losses amid the collective West’s global defeat. This applies to relations with Russia, Ch...
After patiently proposing to Benjamin Netanyahu that he negotiate with the Palestinian resistance and meeting only a stubborn determination to massacre the Palestinians, annex Gaza, southern Lebanon and Syria, and launch a war against Iran, the Trump administration has changed gears. It is now clear to them, as it has been to everyone who has been interested...
Yemen, a nation of approximately 40 million people, is one of the poorest nations on Earth. It has suffered decades of political instability, including a US-engineered regime change operation in 2011 followed by a nearly 7-year long war with a US-armed and backed Saudi-led Persian Gulf coalition. The war included air strikes and a ground invasion, along with...
It is late, and the evening is cool, almost nine o’clock, dark. At such a time, the Eternal Flame looks especially solemn, and the red stars on the Kremlin towers shine brightly. Lanterns and backlights illuminate the fountains and colourful lilacs amidst the darkness of the Alexander Garden. But filming is in full swing opposite the Kremlin, the lights are ...
After examining President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Iran [1], we now examine his negotiations with Ukraine. Unfortunately, we do not have the documents of the Ukrainian “integral nationalists” like we do of the Israeli “revisionist Zionists.” This is because today’s Ukraine is truly a military dictatorship, while in Israel, the army is still the guara...
The Russian Duma continues to discuss the introduction of a law on criminal liability for Russophobia, based on a proposal from Andrei Loginov, who recently got appointed Rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities, and who worked as State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Justice, from 2020 to 2024. Mr. Loginov wanted to enshrine the concept of...
While the dominant WWII history is that the allies US, USSR, Britain, France, and China defeated the Axis (Germany, Japan, and Italy), another dimension that is suppressed in Western thought is that the USSR crushed Hitler’s war machine. The Soviet’s sacrifice in pushing back Hitler’s killing machine convinced strategic fence-sitters and imperialists in The ...
On September 11, 2001, unprecedented attacks destroyed three towers of the World Trade Center in New York. The attack was attributed to Osama bin Laden and justified the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, on the same day, real estate developer Donald Trump denounced a lie, and six months later, politician Thierry Meyssan published “The Terrible Imposture...
Vice President of the United States J.D. Vance has some impressive credentials for a 40-year-old good ol’ country boy: After graduating from high school, Vance elected to join the Marines. He is a decorated US Marine Corps veteran, serving in Iraq as a military journalist. He was then a 2009 summa cum laude graduate of Ohio State University with a BA in poli...
Amid efforts aimed at nationalization and economic development, the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) slanders a leading member of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). Another plot to destabilize Burkina Faso was reported last week over the national television network in the West African state. Minister of Security Mahamadu Sana made the announcement to ...