Are Russia and India Global Partners? The Brahmos Supersonic Missiles, The Russia-China Relationship

Are Russia and India Global Partners? The Brahmos Supersonic Missiles, The Russia-China Relationship

The announcement that the Brahmos supersonic missiles jointly produced by Russia and India will soon be exported to third countries that are on friendly relations with both increases the odds that their historic Vietnamese partners might receive these game-changing weapons. *** “New Delhi’s Man In Moscow Is Right, Russia & India Are Global Partners“, and…

Let Them Howl, Boris!

Let Them Howl, Boris!

Facing a Parliamentary majority opposed to a hard Brexit — a crashing out of the EU if Britain is not offered a deal she can live with — Boris Johnson took matters into his own hands. He went to the Queen at Balmoral and got Parliament “prorogued,” suspended, from Sept. 12 to Oct. 14. That’s…

The Collapse of the INF Treaty: The US Spreads Disinformation and Raises the Threat

The Collapse of the INF Treaty: The US Spreads Disinformation and Raises the Threat

On 18 August, at 2.30 pm Pacific time, the Pentagon conducted a flight test of the new experimental Tomahawk-class GLCM-X ground-launched cruise missile (GLCM), launching it from St. Nicolas Island, California. The test was successful. Flying over 500 km, the missile ‘accurately impacted its target’. The experiment was the first range test of a US…

New Bases to Counter China? Indo-Pacific is New Priority Region for the US

New Bases to Counter China? Indo-Pacific is New Priority Region for the US

After devastating the Middle East through sanctions, warfare, and the backing of extremists to fight proxy wars, the Indo-Pacific region – not the Middle East – is now the Pentagon’s “priority” region. Esper made it evident that the US had its eye on a number of key locations in the Indo-Pacific region, in which he…

US/Israel Upping the Stakes for More Middle East War

US/Israel Upping the Stakes for More Middle East War

No nation may legally attack another state preemptively — what US-dominated NATO and Israel do time and again unaccountably. It’s what aggression is all about — defined by UN General Assembly Res. 3314. Calling it the “most serious and dangerous form of the illegal use of force,” the resolution defined aggression as “the (unjustifiable) use…