The US Is More Afraid of Losing Africa to Russia Than to China

The US Is More Afraid of Losing Africa to Russia Than to China

The creative “Democratic Security” (counter-Hybrid Warfare) model that Russia is successfully applying in the Central African Republic prompted the head of AFRICOM to warn about its possible export to other African countries, which terrifies the US to no end because it stands a very realistic chance of losing the continent to Russia instead of China…

The USA’s Concerns About China’s Construction of New Ports in Various Countries

The USA’s Concerns About China’s Construction of New Ports in Various Countries

On November 15 last year the popular Hong Kong-based newspaper Asia Times published an article with the headline: Cambodia at the Center of a New Cold War. The article claimed that since 2017 China has been actively lobbying Cambodia’s government to allow it to build naval bases near the port city of Koh Kong (the…

The Intra-Afghan Talks in Moscow Confirm that Kabul Is Cornered

The Intra-Afghan Talks in Moscow Confirm that Kabul Is Cornered

Leading anti-government figures, most prominent among them former President Karzai, met with the Taliban in the Russian capital at the initiative of the Council of Afghan Society in Russia where they pledged to defend national values and pave the way for further intra-Afghan talks to complement the separate Moscow peace process. The gathering was announced…

Pussy John Bolton and His Codpiece Mustache

Pussy John Bolton and His Codpiece Mustache

American government has become a collection of sordid and dangerous clowns. It was not always thus. Until Bush II, those governing were never lunatics. Eisenhower, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Obama, Clinton had their defects, were sometimes corrupt, and could be disagreed with on many grounds. They weren’t crazy. Today’s administration would seem unwholesome in a…

Britain and the Iranian Revolution: Arms & Secret Deals

Britain and the Iranian Revolution: Arms & Secret Deals

Forty years ago, the Iranian revolution sent a shockwave through the Middle East, overthrowing the Western client, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and bringing to power the Islamic regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. While Iran now poses the biggest challenge to Western power in the Middle East, British relations with Islamic Iran were not always so…