Kremlin spokesmen Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the US invited Putin to join the Board of Peace, which refers to the UNSC-endorsed Trump-chaired group for implementing his Gaza peace plan. Interestingly, Gaza isn’t mentioned anywhere in its charter, thus lending...
The South Transitional Council (STC), the populist-nationalist organization seeking to restore South Yemen’s independence in the 21st century as the State of South Arabia, unexpectedly found itself at the center of regional developments over the past month. A successful...
The “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF), the US-backed umbrella group dominated by armed Syrian Kurds from the YPG who are connected to Turkish-designated PKK terrorists, rapidly collapsed over the weekend due to the coordinated defection of their Arab tribal junior...
Moldovan President Maia Sandu recently declared on a podcast that she’d vote to (re)join Romania on the pretext of helping Moldova better defend itself from Russia if a referendum was ever held. What’s nowadays the Republic of Moldova has...
Trump announced that the US will impose 10% additional tariffs on those NATO allies next month who symbolically dispatched a handful of military units to Greenland ahead of upcoming multilateral drills there with Denmark before scaling this to 25%...
Reports have recently circulated about three separate but complementary military pacts in which Saudi Arabia might soon participate, which could form the core of an “Islamic NATO”. Bloomberg got the ball rolling by reporting that Turkiye wants to join...
The leaders of the Baltic States, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria met in Helsinki last month for the inaugural Eastern Flank Summit, which produced a joint declaration that can be read here. They assessed that “Russia’s strategic goals...
Foreign Affairs recently published a piece about how “Russia Is the World’s Worst Patron”, with the subtitle claiming that “From Syria to Venezuela, Putin Has Overpromised and Underdelivered”. It was co-authored by Alexander Gabuev and Sergey Vakulenko, respectively the...
Ukraine once again launched drone strikes against tankers connected to the partially US-owned Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which transits through Russia and serves as landlocked Kazakhstan’s oil export lifeline via which 80% of such sales are conducted. Energy exports...
Trump’s decree imposing 25% tariffs on any country doing business with Iran risks derailing the Sino-US trade talks, not to mention further worsening the economic situation inside Iran and therefore fueling more protests, but there’s another lesser-known but still...
