Putin Aligns with Xi in Crafting the New World (Trade) Order

Putin Aligns with Xi in Crafting the New World (Trade) Order

History will record the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing marked the juncture where the 21st century New Silk Roads assumed their full character of Globalization 2.0, or “inclusive globalization,” as defined by President Xi Jinping in Davos earlier this year. I have dealt with the monumental stakes here and here. Terminology, of course, remains a minor…

Carving Out “Kurdistan” is the US’ New End Game in Syria

Carving Out “Kurdistan” is the US’ New End Game in Syria

As one regional war ends, another conflict may begin. The War on Syria has taken many twists and turns over the past six years, but the conventional part of the campaign seems to be drawing to an end. Russia’s anti-terrorist intervention turned the tables on the “moderate opposition rebels” and forever precluded any chance that…

Report: U.S., British Forces Enter Southern Syria Alongside Terrorists; Is a Bigger Battle Shaping Up?

Report: U.S., British Forces Enter Southern Syria Alongside Terrorists; Is a Bigger Battle Shaping Up?

Days after reports that Damascus was on high alert due to increased U.S. troop levels on the Jordanian border and an apparent preparation for an invasion from the south and southeast, the United States and Britain have indeed pushed into Syria from the very location earlier reports suggested would be used. Fighting alongside jihadist terrorist…