A leaked Pentagon memo suggested that the US seek Spain’s suspension from NATO for refusing to allow it access, basing, and overflight (ABO) rights during the Third Gulf War. Spanish Premier Pedro Sanchez dismissed it while a NATO official...
It’s been a week since the latest insurgency in Mali by terrorist-designated “Azawad Liberation Front” (FLA) Tuareg separatists and “Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin” (JNIM) radical Islamists sparked the latest Malian Crisis. They’re suspected being backed to various extents by...
Trump recently posted on social media that “The United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of troops in Germany”. The Pentagon then confirmed that 5,000 will leave within the next year. This came around a week after...
Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev is one of Russia’s top experts, and his institution hosts Putin every fall for an extended Q&A session, which is why his articles are worthy of attention. His latest was about “China’s Strategy...
The latest Malian Insurgency, which has in turn led to a Russian-Tuareg War, wouldn’t have been possible had it not been for Algeria pivoting towards its former Tuareg separatist and radical Islamist nemeses like Saudi Arabia recently pivoted towards...
It was assessed after last year’s Three Seas Initiative (3SI) Summit that “The ‘Three Seas Initiative’ Will Play A Prominent Role In Post-Conflict Europe” due to its logistical and energy connectivity projects respectively facilitating NATO’s eastward deployments and the...
Ties between Azerbaijan and India have been strained for over half a decade after Pakistan provided political and reportedly also military support to Azerbaijan during 2020’s Karabakh War, which prompted India to provide political support and later arms to...
Russia is unofficially in a state of war with Mali’s terrorist-designated Tuareg rebels due to the Africa Corps’ role in helping the Malian Armed Forces (FAMA) repel the onslaught led by the “Azawad Liberation Front” (FLA) and their “Jamaat...
It was assessed shortly after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s capture that “The ‘Trump Doctrine’ Is Shaped By Elbridge Colby’s ‘Strategy Of Denial’”, which argues that the US now prioritizes denying China the resources required for maintaining its economic growth....
The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Gateway House, which are among their country’s top think tanks, published a joint report in late March about moving “Toward More Balanced Russia–India Economic Relations” for the second Russia-India International Conference. It’s...
