The Infowar Phase of the US’ Hybrid War on One Belt–One Road

The Infowar Phase of the US’ Hybrid War on One Belt–One Road

The US’ Hybrid War on OBOR doesn’t stop at the military phase but importantly continues into the informational domain in order to undermine China’s New Silk Roads through the planting of Trumpist “time bombs” in strategic transit states that can only be neutralized by a comprehensive perception management strategy that breaks from the centralized model…

Riding on Qatari Wings, Multipolarity Arrives in the Middle East

Riding on Qatari Wings, Multipolarity Arrives in the Middle East

Trust Turkey’s Recep Erdogan to have had a game plan when he challenged the Trump administration and promised that the latter will regret its “unilateralist” policies. Some pundits thought Russia and China have been inciting him and are lurking in the shadows to escort Erdogan to a brave new world. Others fancied that the Eurasian…

Trump’s Sanctions on Iran Dig Deeper Grave for US Forces in Afghanistan

Trump’s Sanctions on Iran Dig Deeper Grave for US Forces in Afghanistan

The dramatic, and seemingly unstoppable, surge of Taliban offensives across Afghanistan is proof that the US is fast becoming the latest foreign power to succumb to failure in a land known for for being the “graveyard of empires”. But unlike past empires defeated in Afghanistan, the US stands out as singularly contributing to its own…

America the Punitive

America the Punitive

There has been a dramatic shift in how the United States government carries out its business internationally. Admittedly, Washington has had a tendency to employ force to get what it has wanted ever since 9/11, but it also sometimes recognized that other countries had legitimate interests and accepted there was a place for diplomacy to…

Smearing, Libelling, Intimidating: How Jeremy Corbyn’s Detractors are Plotting to Take Him Down

Smearing, Libelling, Intimidating: How Jeremy Corbyn’s Detractors are Plotting to Take Him Down

Every day you log on, you ask yourself how much dirtier the campaign to unseat Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party is going to get, how much lower his enemies are going to sink. And each day they surpass themselves in the race to the gutter of British politics. Last week, Britain’s three…