Russia Sends more Military Hardware to Syrian Armed Forces
The fast-moving and full-spectrum paradigm changes catalyzed by the emerging Multipolar World Order accelerated in 2018 and are poised to continue dramatically reshaping Afro-Eurasian geopolitics across the next year. The Significance Of End-Of-The-Year Strategic Forecasting 2018 was the year when the New Cold War – which had been percolating since the Soviet dissolution in 1991…
This move is aimed at limiting President Putin’s personal travel options, prompting those countries that aren’t part of the ICC to signal that they’d feel uncomfortable with the optics of hosting him, and pressuring African leaders to cancel their plans to travel to St. Petersburg for this July’s Second Russia-Africa Summit. Narrative Reinforcement The International…
Russia’s president has marked our time now. No matter what your persuasion, even the die hard liberal world order minion must realize the character of greatness when he or she sees it. V.V. Putin rules modern diplomacy and politics, if for no other reason than his unimpeachable patience and pragmatism. Here’s another salute to Putin…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky emerges as a tragic figure in the unfolding drama that is the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. He was asked to sacrifice the lives of his countrymen in order to be seen by the U.S. and NATO as worthy of joining their club. But when the sacrifice did not produce the desired result (i.e.,…
The US and the Taliban signed an historic peace deal on Saturday in the Qatari capital of Doha which sets the timeline and conditions for the full withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, with this landmark agreement giving credible reasons for observers to be cautiously optimistic about its prospects of success but also containing within…
US Navy ships operating in the waterways of the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Red Sea have been attacked a number of times within a week. The missiles fell harmlessly into water, but they were enough of a provocation to make the American ships fire back at least once with Tomahawk missiles, destroying mobile…