Given the history of the various Middle Eastern peace proposals of one kind or another that have briefly raised their heads only to die ingloriously, it would perhaps be wise to consider the latest Israel-Gaza ceasefire, originally due to start on Sunday, to be, like Sinatra’s soup, a work in progress. And maybe not even really in progress due to likely hidd...
Re-elected President Donald Trump has mentioned a possible annexation of the Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland. A crazy project that already appeared on a map, imagined in 1941 by a follower of the technocratic movement. However, it was the French branch of this movement that invented the transhumanism dear to Elon Musk, whose grandfather was responsible fo...
Both Israel and Turkey have benefitted from the fall of al-Assad. While Israel wanted al-Assad’s exit to disrupt Iran’s ability to arm Hezbollah via Syria against Israel, Turkey always saw al-Assad as a stumbling block against Ankara’s ambition to decimate Kurdish resistance groups. Now that Turkey-backed Islamists are in power, the ability of Kurdish groups...
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reacted to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda’s remarks on X describing Kaliningrad city as “Karaliaučius” and its oblast /region as “Lithuania Minor” by declaring that “Lithuania is an unfriendly, hostile state to Russia, and, among other things, it turns out that this country has territorial claims against us. This justifi...
On January 8, the Kiev regime’s drones targeted the “Kombinat Kristall” fuel depot in the vicinity of the Engels-2 strategic aviation base of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) in the Saratov oblast (region). The attack allegedly destroyed some of the reserves of specialized T-8V high-density fuel used by Tu-160 strategic bombers (better known as missile...
Since Israel launched its war against Palestinians in Gaza 15 months ago, tensions have remained high. The conflict erupted after Hamas’ successful operation in Israel on October 7th, 2023, which led to a bloody confrontation. Have Israel’s efforts to destroy Hamas and Hezbollah achieved their goals? What is the current status of these organizations? What ch...
With the eroding Western dominance and decreasing credibility of the multilateral institutions, the world is rapidly shifting towards a multipolar global order. Middle powers will continue to play a crucial role in molding the geopolitical landscape in the changing world order. Amidst the already volatile world, people around the world are suspicious about t...
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski echoed French President Emmanuel Macron’s concerns that Elon Musk’s social media campaigns in support of the AfD opposition in Germany and against incumbent British Prime Minister Keir Starmer amount to meddling. He also called for Poland to pass new laws “so that it is the Polish people who choose our president, not fo...
Firstly, it is worth highlighting the importance of the visit itself, which took place on 25-26 December last year. While the Japanese side had definitively confirmed the trip a month in advance, the Chinese authorities had been more ambiguous, with references to Japanese press reports. This is hardly surprising, given the significant challenges in relations...
Pakistan, once accused as the patron of the Afghan Taliban*, is struggling to counter the terrorism emanating from Afghanistan. Numerous terrorist organizations, including TTP, BLA, and ISIS*, are using Afghan soil to conduct terrorist activities in neighbouring countries. Since the Afghan Taliban’s takeover of Kabul in 2021, terrorist activities have soured...
On March 31, 2024 the German weekly “Der Spiegel”, the Russian internet newspaper in exile “The Insider” and the American TV channel “CBS News” on its “60 minutes program” published facts which challenged the statement by American intelligence services that the Havana syndrome [anomalous health conditions] , the ailment of U.S. government employees, produced...
It is a race against time that the Pentagon has started before President Donald Trump takes office. After destroying Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, it is launching its men against Yemen. Don’t mistake appearances for reality: officially, Israel is responding to the bombings of Ansar Allah and the United States is responding to attacks on Western ships...
After a short commercial break, they returned to their real roles. The story of the 2011 Syria and 2013 Kurdish openings was released again. And this time with a huge production… Saddam was overthrown in Iraq, Gaddafi in Libya, Assad in Syria and now it is Iran’s turn. In my previous article, I had written the title “A Saddam Trap is being set for Turkey”. N...
The uncertainty factor, previously noted in the NEO, that arose in the complex of US relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), its main geopolitical opponent, as well as with Japan, the US’ key Asian ally, caused by the transitional state of the governance system of the still leading world power, cannot but be reflected in the transformation of th...
The first argument centres around the notion that China’s diplomatic activity has diminished following the signing of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement between Russia and North Korea in the summer of 2024. On the 5th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), both sides limited their exchanges to sending floral baskets; the anniversary...
Politicians and experts believe that Muslim voters in Michigan may have played a role in Trump’s victory, and could have influenced the outcome of other states with uncertain results. Hassan Abdel Salam, a former university professor, said that although Trump’s cabinet appointments were not a surprise, they were more radical than...
Today, the international community cannot allow Western powers and their allies to continue the unrestrained exploitation of the natural wealth of African nations. It is likely that the Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, will need to launch a new offensive to achieve the final unification of the country and put an end to the il...
There was a time when France was the strongest and most civilized nation in Europe. The peak of French ascendancy took place during the late 17th and early 18th centuries under Louis XIV (1638-1715), the “Sun King.” French power was based on a population steeped in religious piety, stable currency, government policies that favoured economic development, a fa...
Pak-US relations have always been transactional and evolved in response to regional and global storms. Therefore, it would be cogent to hold that they were always a function of factors extraneous to bilateral ones. The US has always used Pakistan to achieve its regional ambitions in South Asia. As soon as these storms subsided, the US prioritized other regio...
In recent weeks, the US press, along with certain European newspapers, has been writing about the political chaos in Western Europe. This is due to the fact that the two largest powers of the European Union, Germany and France, do not actually have a government. The crisis state of the German economy, which is viewed as the main locomotive of the EU, is part...