Shaping the New World Order: The Battle for Human Rights

Shaping the New World Order: The Battle for Human Rights

China is leading the charge in a bid to undermine accepted concepts of human rights accountability and justice. The Chinese effort backed by autocrats elsewhere has turned human rights into an underrated, yet crucial battleground in the shaping of a new world order. China is manoeuvring against the backdrop of an unprecedented crackdown on Turkic…

History of World War II: Conduct of Hitler’s “Operation Barbarossa” against Russia

History of World War II: Conduct of Hitler’s “Operation Barbarossa” against Russia

The method of warfare fought by Hitler’s forces in the Soviet Union would, before long, come back to haunt them. By pursuing a conflict in extreme ideological terms against Russia, it steeled the Red Army’s resolve in overcoming the “fascist hordes” at whatever cost. Hitler had titled his march eastwards “Operation Barbarossa”, named after King…

History of World War II: Did Mussolini’s Fate Prompt Hitler to Kill Himself?

History of World War II: Did Mussolini’s Fate Prompt Hitler to Kill Himself?

With Allied armies pushing ever northwards through the “tough old gut” of Italy, and German forces pulling out, Benito Mussolini took a long look at the situation before departing Milan on 25 April 1945. It was, fittingly, Italy’s Liberation Day as the despot fled Milan in his red Alfa Romeo, with long-time mistress Clara Petacci…

2019 Forecast for Afro-Eurasia

2019 Forecast for Afro-Eurasia

The fast-moving and full-spectrum paradigm changes catalyzed by the emerging Multipolar World Order accelerated in 2018 and are poised to continue dramatically reshaping Afro-Eurasian geopolitics across the next year. The Significance Of End-Of-The-Year Strategic Forecasting 2018 was the year when the New Cold War – which had been percolating since the Soviet dissolution in 1991…

European Powers Condemn Trump’s Withdrawal from Syria

European Powers Condemn Trump’s Withdrawal from Syria

The withdrawal of US troops from Syria announced by US President Donald Trump and the subsequent resignation of his defence secretary, James Mattis, have provoked a fierce response from European leaders. After the initial shock, the European ruling elites reacted overwhelmingly with calls for a more independent European foreign and defence policy. In Germany, in…

The West Is Waging Hybrid War on Nord Stream by Obsessing Over Putin’s Stasi Past

The West Is Waging Hybrid War on Nord Stream by Obsessing Over Putin’s Stasi Past

The media spectacle that’s being made over President Putin’s supposed partnership with the East German Stasi is a form of Hybrid War being waged by the West against Nord Stream, incidentally using the exact same tactics that Russia is commonly accused of employing in seeking to sow chaos, discord, and confusion in German society over…