Pakistan and Somalia finally signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on defense cooperation in early August one year after the latter’s Cabinet approved such an arrangement last August. According to the Somali Defense Ministry, “ provides a framework for...
Zelensky announced the start of a 40-day influence operation in late June aimed at coercing Russia into accepting a ceasefire without preconditions. This saw Ukraine ramp up its drone strikes against Russia’s strategic infrastructure with support from the US...
Pakistan imposed new media restrictions this week that expanded its existing limitations on foreign journalists to domestic ones who cooperate with foreign outlets. Now anyone who reports on anything outside of Islamabad, Karachi, and Lahore for foreign media must...
Congressman Riley Moore sparked an international scandal earlier this week after harshly condemning India’s “Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill” on X as “a clear attack against Christians” since it would “permit government takeovers of churches and religious charities.” As...
The Telegraph’s article about “The slow death of the coalition of the willing” has been widely reported on by Russian social media and “Non-Russian Pro-Russians” alike in a celebratory tone. The outlet’s Diplomatic Editor and Europe Editor warned that...
An extraordinary development took place in Belarusian-Polish ties in late July after the former tipped the latter off about a potential terrorist plot. According to former deep cover KGB spy Roman Protasevich, Belarusian anti-government activist Denis Dashkevich planned to...
Top Russian expert Fyodor Lukyanov, who serves as the Valdai Club’s Research Director among his other prestigious roles in his country’s expert community, published a piece at RT about “Why Western Europe needs the Ukraine conflict to continue”. The...
Russian Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik believes that the protests in support of Ukraine’s recently dismissed Defense Minister Mikhail Fyodorov aren’t organic. For background, Ukraine experienced its largest protests since “EuroMaidan” in response to Zelensky’s decision to get rid of him....
Kuwait’s belated ratification of a three-year-old defense cooperation agreement with Pakistan in late July lent credence to Reuters’ report from earlier that month alleging that Kuwait also wants a Saudi-like mutual defense pact with Pakistan as do Bahrain and...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s announcement in mid-July that his country will participate in a French nuclear drill for the first time later this year as part of the latter’s “forward deterrence” policy was followed a few days later by...
