According to Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov, Western journalists are misportraying the situation since Russia’s view is that there’s no reason to panic. ISIS isn’t rising, Kabul is mostly calm, and civilians are safe. Russia has surprisingly come to have more pragmatic ties with the Taliban than any other country apart from Pakistan as…
In the northern regions of China, the joint military exercises of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Armed Forces called West Interaction-2021 has started. About 13,000 servicemen and more than 400 pieces of military equipment are involved. The peculiarity of these military exercises is not just their…
Comparing Russia’s assessment of the situation with the perception being propagated by the Western Mainstream Media, it becomes clear that the chaos at the Kabul Airport is a combination of American incompetence and a perception management plot against the Taliban. The world is gripped by the dramatic images coming out of the US-controlled Kabul Airport…
It hasn’t hinted anything to this effect, but it would be wise for the Kremlin to ask the Taliban to hold off on capturing the capital while also asking Ghani to consider resigning. The Taliban captured over half of Afghanistan’s regional capitals in a single week and now exerts control over territory equivalent to at…
The ever-elusive Afghan “peace” process negotiations re-start this Wednesday in Doha via the extended troika – the US, Russia, China and Pakistan. The contrast with the accumulated facts on the ground could not be starker. In a coordinated blitzkrieg, the Taliban have subdued no less than six Afghan provincial capitals in only four days. The…
The Indo-Pacific is rapidly becoming the convergence point of many of the world’s geostrategic processes, but Russia has yet to formulate an official policy towards this vast space, which places it at a disadvantage vis-a-vis its Great Power peers. The Indo-Pacific is among the top buzzwords in the foreign policy community nowadays because this vast…
