January 9, 2020 | Astute News

The Latest Putin-Erdogan Summit Synchronizes Their Regional Strategy

January 9, 2020

President Putin's latest summit with President Erdogan is no longer just about celebrating the opening of the TurkStream pipeline, but about synchronizing Russia and Turkey's regional strategy after t…

Trump’s Biggest Gamble Yet May Set the Entire Middle East Alight

January 9, 2020

Opinion

The assassination of Iran’s top general is not only going to wreak havoc on America’s allies in the region. It is also going to divide the Arab world just at the very time when diplomacy was working. …

A New Great Mediterranean Game

January 9, 2020

Opinion

In the apparent absence of major strategic thinking in America and Europe about the future of the Mediterranean, the sea has become once again the stage of a Great geopolitical Game between big and sm…

The Mafia Would Have Been Proud

January 9, 2020

Opinion

The US drone strike at Baghdad airport that killed Iran’s top commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, and a senior leader of Iraq’s Shia militia, has set the Mideast on fire. The Trump administration, which…

Trump Threatens Afghan Armageddon

January 9, 2020

Opinion

On February 4, 2002, a Predator drone circled over Afghanistan’s Paktia province, near the city of Khost. Below was al-Qaeda’s founder Osama bin Laden -- or at least someone in the CIA thought so -- a…

Three Scenarios for the Ongoing Hybrid War in Brazil

January 9, 2020

Opinion

This article tries to present some possible scenarios for what would be the next logical step in Brazil’s ongoing Hybrid War: the irregular war. *** One World recently published an article by Andrew K…

Western Campaign Against Orthodox Church Turns to Montenegro

January 9, 2020

Opinion

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” So Karl Marx wrote in 1843. For three generations …

The Year of Manufactured Hysteria

January 9, 2020

Opinion

Well, it looks like we’ve somehow managed to survive another year of diabolical Putin-Nazi attacks on democracy. It was touch-and-go there for a while, especially coming down the home stretch, what wi…