Pakistan-Russia Relations: From Bitter Enemies to Geopolitical Partners

Pakistan-Russia Relations: From Bitter Enemies to Geopolitical Partners

The gradual emergence of the multipolar world changes the international layout in a way that allows international players to maneuver, while compelling them to adjust the undertones of their foreign policies and adapt to the transforming realities. Back during the Cold War years Pakistan and the USSR would typically be described as sworn enemies, as…

Welcome to the Indo-Russia Maritime Silk Road

Welcome to the Indo-Russia Maritime Silk Road

There’s no way to follow the complex inner workings of the Eurasia integration process without considering what takes place annually at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. BRICS for the moment may be dead – considering the nasty cocktail of economic brutalism and social intolerance delivered by the incendiary “Captain” Bolsonaro in Brazil. Yet RIC –…

A US-Taliban Peace Deal Would Redefine the Regional Balance of Power

A US-Taliban Peace Deal Would Redefine the Regional Balance of Power

The tentative peace deal that the US is negotiating with the Taliban would redefine the regional balance of power if it’s officially promulgated, thus continuing the ongoing trend of Great Power realignment in Eurasia. It’s been widely reported that the tentative peace deal that the US is negotiating with the Taliban will see the removal…

India Once Called Zionism Racist. Today It Moves to Replicate It

India Once Called Zionism Racist. Today It Moves to Replicate It

In the winter of 1975, the United Nations passed resolution 3379 stating that “Zonism is a form of racism and racial discrimination”. UN resolution 3379 made reference to a resolution adopted three months earlier by the Organization of African Unity (now the African Union), that drew comparisons between the racist and colonial projects in South Africa and…

Russia’s Asian Pivot: The Vladivostok-Chennai Maritime Corridor

Russia’s Asian Pivot: The Vladivostok-Chennai Maritime Corridor

Credible reports have been circulating that this year’s Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok will see the formalization of the Vladivostok-Chennai Maritime Corridor between the Russian Far East and India, which would be the key to comprehensively diversifying Russia’s “Pivot to Asia” and “balancing” China. “Rusi-Hindi Bhai Bhai” (“Russians and Indians are brothers”), the Soviet-era slogan…

It Was to be Expected That the UAE Would Side with India Over Pakistan

It Was to be Expected That the UAE Would Side with India Over Pakistan

The UAE and India have too many strategic convergences with one another for Abu Dhabi to risk its relationship with New Delhi by supporting Pakistan’s stance towards Kashmir. The UAE shocked many observers late last month when it awarded Indian Prime Minister Modi the country’s highest civilian honor amidst the ongoing concern that New Delhi…