India, and especially Israel, are very close American military-strategic partners in their own way just like Japan is but only the last-mentioned surrendered its strategic autonomy, not to mention without even getting anything in exchange. This shows that only the first two are truly independent in formulating their grand strategies while Japan is doomed to…
Poland is officially pleased with everything that the US has done to regionally provoke Russia – especially America’s deployment of ‘anti-missile systems’ and strike weapons near its border intended to gradually neutralize its target’s nuclear second-strike capabilities – but it might feel more comfortable with America ‘leading from the front’ with respect to dispatching jets…
Washington could claim that the military aid to Ukraine so far is defensive weaponry. Sending warplanes, however, from a U.S. airbase is taking the involvement to a higher level risking escalation. Polish shenanigans over sending fighter jets to Ukraine earned a sharp rebuke from the Pentagon. And then as if to underline the awkward ramifications…
There is a discursive nervous tic all over social media at the moment, including from prominent journalists such as Guardian columnist George Monbiot. The demand is that everyone not only “condemn” Russian president Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, but do so without qualification. Any reluctance to submit is considered certain proof that the person is…
“I have spoken with my Western colleagues about denazification. They say:” What’s the problem? You also have radical nationalists, don’t you?” Yes, we do, but we don’t have them in our government like Ukraine. And we don’t have thousands of people marching in the streets with torches and swastikas like Nazi Germany in the 1930s?…
To oversimplify the conflict, it’s what happens when a security dilemma turns hot. China believes that if security dilemmas can’t be preemptively averted, then they must be resolved diplomatically if at all possible, but that can only happen if all parties are negotiating in good faith, which the US and NATO weren’t doing according to…
