Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan just visited Tehran and met with President Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. That’s a major geopolitical move by
Day: October 7, 2017
Is Saudi Arabia’s Grand Strategy Shifting?
Even in this era of global paradigmatic changes, Saudi Arabia’s shifting grand strategy is perhaps one of the most surprising developments to occur thus far,
The India-China Standoff Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Escalate
In this era of widespread nuclear capabilities it is important that military generals should refrain from commenting forcefully on international affairs in public. They should
The US Plan C for Syria and Iraq: Its Reckless Game with the Kurds
As ISIS fades and as the Syrian conflict winds down, regional tensions in the Middle East are escalating, as the attention of the Great Powers
The Qatari Teeterboard of Washington
More than 100 days of conflict around Qatar have passed and, as they say, it is now there. All the efforts of a number of
Russian Views on the Separatist Referendums in Spain and Iraq
The recent referenda in Catalonia and Kurdistan, while by no means crucial developments for Russia, have resulted in a lively debate in the Russian media
Trump, Mattis and The Asymmetric War Against Venezuela
After the purge of the strategist Steve Bannon from the ultra-nationalist entourage of Donald Trump by the troika of generals who took over the White
President Zigzag
President Trump’s bellicose speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month sparked a crisis for the behind-the-scenes diplomacy that was then reaching out to
