If Russia can get India to realize that the Taliban aren’t a security threat nor are they “Pakistani proxies”, then it can very easily help the two connect with one another by making use of its close ties to each. India has abruptly been left with no influence whatsoever in Afghanistan ever since the Taliban’s…
It didn’t have to be this way, which is why learning more about what happened can be very instructive for other countries in order to avoid going down the same path of self-destruction. The 30th anniversary of Ukrainian independence is a somber time to reflect on what went wrong over the years with his previously…
Russia’s Afghan evacuation operation went off without a hitch due to two “diplomatic miracles”: the US allowing Russia to use the Kabul Airport despite the political tensions between them and the Taliban not interfering with its citizens’ access to that departure point as well as that of the other foreign nationals that Moscow was responsible…
There still remain several variables that could continue to destabilize the country in the coming future. The Taliban’s lightning-fast takeover of Afghanistan ended the most important phase of the country’s civil war but hasn’t yet concluded that conflict completely. There still remain several variables that could continue to destabilize the country in the coming future….
The first Taliban press conference after this weekend’s Saigon moment geopolitical earthquake, conducted by spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, was in itself a game-changer. The contrast could not be starker with those rambling pressers at the Taliban embassy in Islamabad after 9/11 and before the start of the American bombing – proving this is an entirely new…
These countries’ leaderships appreciate their strategic relations with Russia and are also keenly aware of the serious Hybrid War threat that those provocations pose to their domestic stability. Some “nationalist activists” in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have recently taken to attacking those of their compatriots who address them in Russian, prompting condemnation from Moscow and stern…
