India’s Military-Strategic Inroads with Vietnam Pose a Challenge to China

India’s Military-Strategic Inroads with Vietnam Pose a Challenge to China

The rapid military-strategic inroads that India’s making with Vietnam should be taken very seriously by China because of the challenge that they pose to its claims over the South China Sea, thus representing yet another geopolitical fault line between the two BRICS and SCO “frenemies” in the New Cold War. *** One of the most…

US Forces will Not Likely Withdraw from Syria This Year

US Forces will Not Likely Withdraw from Syria This Year

Notwithstanding President Donald Trump’s announcement of the deal with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to tactically withdraw US forces from specific locations in occupied north-east Syria- and in consequence to leave the Syrian Kurds to their fate- the departure of US forces from Syria is highly implausible. These US forces have established several military…

Zelenskiy’s Secret Deals: Intense Diplomacy Between Paris, Moscow, Kiev and Berlin

Zelenskiy’s Secret Deals: Intense Diplomacy Between Paris, Moscow, Kiev and Berlin

Something is going on behind the scenes in the Russia-EU-Ukraine conflict triangle and not only are we being told nothing about it, we are not even being told it is happening. Yet in the last two months there has been a string of landmark events that have been presented as faits accomplis after nearly five…

Checkmate? US Partisan Smash-up Sparks Turbocharged Russia-China Alliance

Checkmate? US Partisan Smash-up Sparks Turbocharged Russia-China Alliance

Convinced of its invincibility, even as partisan politics threatens to topple Washington, US policymakers remained strangely oblivious to the dangers of a resurgent Russia-China alliance. Although it may be too early to call ‘check mate’ on the US just yet, the nuclear superpower finds itself increasingly restrained. Although it is easily forgotten in these clinically…