Russia and Belarus coordinate military policy through the CSTO, thus contextualizing why Russia transferred Oreshniks and tactical nukes to Belarus, and are supposed to coordinate foreign policy through their Union State. The second duty isn’t being perfectly fulfilled by...
Most folks have probably heard about the “BRICS naval drill” that recently took place in South African waters, which prompted a complaint from the US due to Iran’s participation. The South African Defense Minister had earlier defended the drill,...
Elfadil Ibrahim published an intriguing piece at Arab Weekly about “Why Ethiopia is betting on Sudan’s RSF”. Leaving aside that the premise is unproven, he makes some compelling arguments about why Ethiopia might pivot from neutrality in the Sudanese...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s first press conference of the year in late January touched upon a lot of topics, importantly including the Europeans’ plot to subvert Trump’s Ukrainian peace plan. According to him, the UK “is speaking increasingly...
Trump 2.0 just released its National Defense Strategy (NDS) two months after its National Security Strategy (NSS), and as could be expected, they each preach the need to prioritize the Western Hemisphere. The “Trump Doctrine” that’s discernable within both,...
Trump recently wrote that it was an “act of total weakness” for the UK to hand over the Chagos Islands, which host a joint airbase with the US on Diego Garcia that’s integral to projecting power across the entire...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared during his first press conference of the year that Moscow wants to revive the Russia-India-China (RIC) format. In his words, “ still exists – though it has not convened in some time –...
New Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov shockingly revealed that 200,000 men have already deserted thus far and ten times more (2 million) are actively dodging the draft, which are probably an underestimate but are in any case still very...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held his first press conference of the year on Tuesday, during which time he elaborated on Russian policy towards a wide range of issues. Among the most important ones that he addressed was the...
The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), which was envisaged as a game-changing geo-economic megaproject when it was announced in September 2023 at the G20 Summit in Delhi, was abruptly frozen by the Gaza War that broke out a month...
