The Kiev regime shows that it is really not willing to negotiate and achieve peace diplomatically. In a recent publication on social media, Mikhail Podoliak, the main adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, stated that it would be necessary to create a “demilitarized zone” inside Russian territory. The measure sounds absolutely absurd and does not…
What’s behind the UK foreign minister’s comments and what can we expect from NATO in the longer term? Escalation. Escalation. Escalation. Much has been talked about in recent weeks about the war in Ukraine being taken to the next level. For NATO and western elites, this is a natural progression based on misguided policies and…
However the sequence of events plays out after Kiev’s upcoming NATO-backed counteroffensive, there’s no doubt that it’ll be a bloodbath for Ukraine exactly as Orban predicted. This makes it a tragedy of epic proportions since it doesn’t have to be this way, yet there’s almost certainly no chance that the US will call everything off…
Among the host of implications for international security stemming out of Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s election victory in the runoff on Sunday — be it in the Black Sea, Eastern Mediterranean, Transcaucasus, West Asia or Eurasian integration — what stands out is his mediatory role in the Ukraine conflict. The international community puts China as…
Until the fighting begins, national military strategy developed in peacetime shapes thinking about warfare and its objectives. Then the fighting creates a new logic of its own. Strategy is adjusted. Objectives change. The battle for Bakhmut illustrates this point very well. When General Sergey Vladimirovich Surovikin, commander of Russian aerospace forces, assumed command of the…
On the surface, this is a balanced and well-intended effort to end the fighting, though it’s politically unviable since neither side has a reason to make the requisite compromises. Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto shared his country’s peace plan for ending the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine while speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue meeting in…
