Trump’s Executive Order rescinding the US’ punitive 25% tariffs on India for its import of Russian oil didn’t come without strings attached. Going forward, the US “shall monitor whether India resumes directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil”, in...
Le Monde reported in late December that “The Indian Ocean has become a new arena for France-Russia rivalry”. According to them, Russia helped amplify anti-French rhetoric ahead of October’s military coup in Madagascar, whose new ruling junta is now...
Vice President JD Vance’s trip to Armenia ended with three highly strategic agreements on a $9 billion nuclear energy partnership, a chip deal that led to a contentious AI datacenter project scaling its investment there by a factor of...
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned in earlier this week that a collection of Western countries, Poland and the US importantly among them, is plotting to once again orchestrate an “NGO”-led Color Revolution along the lines of 2020’s one...
The nearly three-year-long Sudanese War is increasingly becoming a major international conflict. Up until recently, the state of play was that the UAE was accused of supporting the “Rapid Support Forces” (RSF) rebels from supply bases in Chad and...
Vice President JD Vance’s trips to Armenia and Azerbaijan were aimed at advancing several interconnected strategic goals. The most immediate was making progress on implementing the “Trump Route for International Peace & Prosperity” (TRIPP), which is the planned trade...
“Pakistan & The US Might Reassess Their Newly Restored Strategic Partnership” after the Indo-US trade deal for the reasons explained in the preceding hyperlinked analysis, namely that they no longer share a common interest in jointly containing and possibly...
The US’ dispute with Europe over Trump’s planned acquisition of Greenland, in pursuit of which he even threatened punitive tariffs against several NATO allies before relenting after they agreed to a framework deal, exposed the strict hierarchical vassal-client relationship...
The Middle East Eye reported that Turkiye’s deployment of three F-16s to Mogadishu “aims to protect Turkish energy and space port investments”. They also cited an official Turkish statement reaffirming Somalia’s territorial integrity amidst Israel’s recognition of Somaliland and...
A global nuclear arms race is possible after Trump let the New START, the hitherto last remaining strategic arms control pact between Russia and the US, lapse despite Putin’s proposal to extend it for another year. He wrote on...
