Former CIA Director David Petraeus, who earlier occupied leading roles at CENTCOM, recently published a piece at the Washington Post about “The race to make Putin’s aggression unaffordable”. He argued that Ukraine’s European partners should “treat the country’s defense-industrial...
The Houthis’ blitz down Yemen’s Red Sea coast and into its neighboring islands gave them commanding influence over the Bab el-Mandab. It also exposed the hollowness of the Islamic NATO after Pakistan and Turkiye failed to come to their...
Director of the Higher School of Economics’ Center for Interdisciplinary Arctic Studies Irina Strelnikova shared an important observation about mid-September’s inaugural European Arctic Summit. According to her, “The countries represented there effectively form a single line stretching from the...
RT reviewed the 2026 Russian Military Yearbook, which is sponsored by the state arms company and meant only for senior members of the national security apparatus. Their article can be read in full here, but the present piece will...
NATO downed a drone over central Lithuania earlier this week that officials claim had entered the bloc’s airspace from Belarus and was operated by Russia. The incident is predictably being exploited to lend credence to recent claims that Russia...
Putin was asked about the AfD’s recent landslide victory in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt on the sidelines of this year’s BRICS Summit in Delhi. While politely declining to address the topic directly, he nevertheless said that “all that...
Top Russian expert Andrey Kortunov published a piece at the US’ influential Foreign Affairs journal about “The Coming Risks to Russian Power”. According to him, “Volatility and instability, active conflicts and arms races across several regions, economic decoupling and...
President of the Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN) Vladimir Tabak gave a detailed interview to TASS ahead of his organization’s upcoming “Dialogue About Fakes 4.0” forum on 22 September. The GFCN’s founding purpose is to combat fake news. Its influence...
Russian Ambassador to Norway Nikolai Korchunov shared an update on his host country’s militarization, which he earlier discussed in detail a few months back, this time warning that “Four South Korean K9 self-propelled guns with a firing range of...
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote that Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski has “Russophobia of the brain” after he declared that “we would defeat Russia quite quickly” “if Russia attacks us and we took our gloves off”. While...
