Putin’s Special Envoy to the US Kirill Dmitriev, who’s also head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, mocked what’s known as the “Middle Power” strategy in mid-July wherein such countries cooperate with one another for optimizing their respective balancing...
Top Trump advisor Laura Loomer’s reversal from anti-Ukrainian to pro-Ukrainian has been the subject of much speculation since she traveled to Ukraine and interviewed Zelensky. It’s important to discover the reason for her political transformation since Trump places such...
French open-source intelligence analyst Clement Molin’s satellite-centric assessment of Poland’s ~$2.5 billion (10 billion PLN) “East Shield”, which refers to the border fortification program that was announced in May 2024 under liberal Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government, has attracted...
Reuters reported that “Iran is expected to receive within weeks a first shipment of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air-defence missile launchers” that will allegedly be sent via Pakistan. China and Pakistan predictably denied the report, and Trump earlier...
Laura Loomer’s trip to Ukraine and interview with Zelensky were the culmination of a trend over the last 18 months of MAGA souring on Russia and warming up to Ukraine. While she might have been driven to a degree...
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk claimed that the missile that entered his country’s airspace early Thursday morning and left a crater in the field where it detonated was a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile. He later stressed that “there are...
The partially US-owned Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which facilitates landlocked Kazakhstan’s oil exports to the global market via Russia, reported that a drone attacked a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker carrying cargo from a Chevron company as well as an Isle...
Former Afghan spy chief Masoud Andarabi gave an intriguing interview to The Diplomat in mid-July that spent a lot of time covering his country’s geostrategy. He’s no longer based there for obvious reasons since he represented the US-backed government,...
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi’s latest tweet came as a surprise. He wrote that he “Was assured by Ukrainian FM @andrii_sybiha that the attack on an Iranian ship was unintentional and Ukraine seeks no escalation. Iran does not...
The “Russia In Global Affairs” (RIGA) journal published an article by Ilya Fabrichnikov, a member of the influential Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, titled “A Time for Stranger Things: On the Prospects of Russia-Poland Relations”. This publication was...
