I’m a Moscow-based American political analyst with a PhD. in Political Science from MGIMO, and this is my third yearly review of the New Cold War after I published by first and second on each anniversary of the special...
Outgoing Polish President Andrzej Duda traveled to DC to meet with his close friend Trump on Saturday on the sidelines of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). They only spent around 10 minutes together though in a very...
Pakistan Railways Freight CEO Sufiyan Sarfaraz Dogar announced last week that the first Russian-Pakistani freight train service will launch on 15 March and transit across Iran, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan. It’ll facilitate the export of Russian energy and industrial products...
Russia is Algeria’s traditional defense partner but that might change due to this North African country’s new military partnerships with the US and India. Algeria signed a “first-of-its-kind” agreement with the US last month that unnamed American defense sources...
Germany’s Bild cited unnamed members of Western security services to sensationally report that Trump is allegedly planning to pull all US troops out of Central Europe in compliance with one of the security guarantee requests that Putin put forth...
Belarus offered an olive branch to Poland amidst the US’ reported attempt to repair ties with Minsk by proposing mutual military inspections 80 kilometers deep inside one another’s border. The purpose is to rebuild lost trust, alleviate their security...
The Financial Times and Reuters reported that the US Government (USG) respectively refuses to endorse a joint statement from the G7 and a proposed UNGA Resolution that include the phrase “Russian aggression”, instead allegedly proposing more neutral language like...
Poland has unexpectedly emerged as the main opponent to the deployment of European peacekeepers to Ukraine, which is made all the more significant by its reputation as NATO’s anti-Russian vanguard state, thus preemptively discrediting predictable accusations that it’s “doing...
Trump came out swinging against Zelensky in a social media post on Wednesday where he accused him of being an unpopular dictator who doesn’t want elections, manipulating America “into a war that couldn’t be won”, and possibly having stolen...
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk reaffirmed his position from late last year that his country won’t dispatch peacekeepers to Ukraine, which followed new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declaring that the US won’t extend Article 5 guarantees to any...
