This Asian north-south bloc grows stronger in response to Washington’s efforts to maintain hegemony, and as Sir Halford John Mackinder said, “Who rules the world island commands the world.”
Read more...Gitmo is still with us, and likely for bad reason.
Read more...A perhaps too glib and US-favoring read on Turkey-Russia relations.
Read more...Washington’s relentless pressure on Türkiye and the Istanbul bombing lead to Turkish airstrikes hitting American positions in Syria.
Read more...On the cost of war, particularly the kind the US has no business fighting.
Read more...The term petrodollar has come to have talismanic value. Time to instill some reality.
Read more...Has the wily Netanyahu backed himself into a corner?
Read more...Moscow accuses the West of using an Ukraine-style strategy in Armenia as more players enter the fold and the situation in the South Caucuses risks spiraling out of control.
Read more...It has now become barely acceptable to say it might be a good idea to seek an end to the Ukraine war.
Read more...Even though Biden as always is making a bad situation worse, the US-Saudi relationship looks destined to have gone off the rails.
Read more...The US is seriously considering yet another self-destructive move: bringing the Saudis to heel via a frontal legal/sanctions attack on OPEC.
Read more...Another apparent act of sabotage in Germany, yet the press is peculiarly refusing to play “whodunnit”.
Read more...The US is having a hissy over the OPEC+ production cut. Not a good look.
Read more...Russia is almost required, if nothing else for domestic political reasons, to Do Something about the Nord Stream attacks. But what exactly?
Read more...By Conor Gallagher Ever since the breakup of the USSR, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in a dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave recognized as Azerbaijani territory by the international community but mostly populated by ethnic Armenians. They fought a war there two years ago when Azerbaijan grabbed land in a six-week conflict that led […]
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