The very fact that the Belarusian leader said that NATO and/or Ukraine’s dispatch of “small units” to his country wouldn’t cross his red line suggests that he expects that it might occur in the near future. As long as this isn’t “full-blown aggression” that sees their “troops…cross the border and start a (larger) war”, then…
The fact of the matter is that African countries are more sovereign than Central & Eastern European ones nowadays, the first of which bravely snubbed Zelensky and refused to sanction Russia while the second dutifully comply with whatever their American overlord demands. The Washington Post (WaPo) published a piece over the weekend titled “In Africa,…
The Hybrid War on historical memory in this tiny Baltic State of a little less than two million people is of outsized significance in terms of the evolving ideological dimensions of the New Cold War. The US-led West is officially proud of having played a major role in the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany…
Latvia’s decision to replace the Belarusian and Russian flags with the old one supported by the foreign-backed opposition and the Russian Olympic Committee’s respectively during the ongoing 2021 Ice Hockey World Championship that’s being hosted by the Baltic country is an unsuccessful Hybrid War stunt conducted at its Western patrons’ behest. Latvia‘s waging two flag…
The transit industry was one of the most important in Latvia and was established during the Soviet era. In the first years of Latvia’s independence in the 1990’s, it was destroyed. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has significantly lowered Latvia’s gross domestic product (GDP) forecast for this year, estimating that Latvia will have the sharpest…
The foreign ministers (FMs) of the Baltic states have wound up their May 16-18 visit to Washington. They asked National Security Adviser John Bolton to reinforce the NATO battalions that have been deployed to their countries with air and naval units. They also want their air-defense capability enhanced. Lithuanian FM Linas Linkevicius emphasized that it’s not just…
