Day: October 7, 2017

Iraqi Kurdistan The Fly to Regional Spiders Turkey, Iraq, Iran

October 7, 2017 Opinion

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 any standards. Iran and Tur…

Is Saudi Arabia’s Grand Strategy Shifting?

October 7, 2017 Opinion

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, but the fast-moving Russian-Saudi rapproch…

The India-China Standoff Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Escalate

October 7, 2017 Opinion

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 certainly pay close atte…

The US Plan C for Syria and Iraq: Its Reckless Game with the Kurds

October 7, 2017 Opinion

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 switches to the growing crisis in Iraq’s and Syria’s Kurd…

The Qatari Teeterboard of Washington

October 7, 2017 Opinion

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 countries to resolve the conflict peacefully by means of negotiations between …

Russian Views on the Separatist Referendums in Spain and Iraq

October 7, 2017 Opinion

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 and the Russian public opinion. The Kremlin it…

Trump, Mattis and The Asymmetric War Against Venezuela

October 7, 2017 Opinion

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 House: James “Mad Dog” Mattis, Secretary of Defens…

President Zigzag

October 7, 2017 Opinion

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 North Korea and Iran, with Trump…