The US’ own ‘allies’ are the ones who considered AUKUS an ‘absolute surprise’, not Russia or China. Those latter two already knew what to expect when it comes to America, and it’s that the fading unipolar hegemon will always put its interests first at everyone else’s expense, including its ‘allies”. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria…
There are two compelling reasons why the US is increasingly unhappy with the ruling Georgian Dream party. These are its close connectivity ties with China and Turkey through the pivotal role that Georgia nowadays plays for their Middle Corridor and its reluctance to further escalate tensions with Russia. The South Caucasus country of Georgia is…
From the looks of it, the plan is for the West to waive select sanctions against Syria with regards to its facilitation of energy exports to Lebanon via the Arab Gas Pipeline in exchange for Damascus requesting Tehran’s dignified but phased withdrawal from the country. Axios cited two unnamed “Israeli” officials last week when reporting…
In his briefing at the UN Security Council, the organization’s Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, proposed taking advantage of the relative halt in military hostilities in the country to bring together the main regional and international parties concerned. According to the official, this should be done for the sake of preliminary negotiations on confidence-building…
It started in 2016. U.S. officials in Havana, Cuba, began complaining en masse about hearing strange noises, suffering recurring headaches, nausea, hearing and memory loss. From there it spread around the world, with hundreds of U.S. spies and diplomats in the United Kingdom, Colombia, China, Uzbekistan, Germany, Austria, and in Washington itself reporting similar symptoms….
Instead of digging up the details about this decade-and-a-half-old incident, it’s more pertinent in the present day to analyze the significance of the ECHR’s ruling and Russia’s refusal to comply with it. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Russia should pay former spy Alexander Litvinenko’s widow €100,000 for moral damages that it…
