Burying the Axe of War: the Arabs Will Recognise Assad, and Arab Investment Will Help Rebuild Syria

Burying the Axe of War: the Arabs Will Recognise Assad, and Arab Investment Will Help Rebuild Syria

Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir made a historical visit to Syria, the first for an Arab leader since war was imposed on Syria in 2011. El-Bashir landed onboard a Russian airplane at Damascus airport, an indication of Moscow’s efforts to bring Syria back into the Arab – and international – fold. During seven years of war,…

Sudan Might be the Next Geopolitical Victim of the New Cold War

Sudan Might be the Next Geopolitical Victim of the New Cold War

The North African state of Sudan is currently experiencing serious Hybrid War unrest as it attempts to gradually transition from the Saudi-led camp to the Turkish-Qatari one, and the geopolitical fate of this beleaguered but strategically positioned country will have serious implications for the future of multipolarity in Africa. Sudan, no stranger to externally provoked…

Trump’s “Prosper Africa” Strategy Is An Admission of Defeat But Also a Wily Trap

Trump’s “Prosper Africa” Strategy Is An Admission of Defeat But Also a Wily Trap

National Security Advisor John Bolton recently announced the Trump Administration’s new “Prosper Africa” strategy, which is basically a tacit admission of defeat acknowledging that the US’ objectives there haven’t been achieved since the end of the Old Cold War, but it’s also a wily trap for encouraging China and Russia to overextend themselves in this…

Russia’s Railroad Expertise Could Reshape African Geopolitics

Russia’s Railroad Expertise Could Reshape African Geopolitics

Sudan’s proposal to have Russian companies help construct the East-West and North-South Trans-African Railways could reshape African geopolitics if Moscow succeeds in leveraging its possibly newfound strategic position in this sphere to “balance” between the two emerging blocs in the modern-day “Scramble for Africa”. Sudan just proposed during an intergovernmental commission with Russia to have…

Al Arabiya Isn’t Serious, There Won’t Be a Russian Base in Saudi Arabia

Al Arabiya Isn’t Serious, There Won’t Be a Russian Base in Saudi Arabia

The influential and well-connected General Manager of the Al Arabiya News Channel said that Russia might be invited to establish a base in northwestern Saudi Arabia if the West’s sanctions his Kingdom, but there are plenty of reasons why this will never happen even though relations between the two Great Powers are better than ever…

Trump’s Taking Putin’s Earlier ICC Moves to a Qualitatively New Level

Trump’s Taking Putin’s Earlier ICC Moves to a Qualitatively New Level

President Putin’s decision to remove Russia from the International Criminal Court in 2016 over its hyper-politicized reports about the country’s activities during the 2008 peace-enforcement operation against Georgia and 2014 reunification with Crimea inadvertently gave “normative legitimacy” to Trump leaving the organization too, though Moscow could never have expected that Washington would then take everything…