Last August’s announcement of the “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” (TRIPP) caught Russia completely by surprise. Prior to this megaproject’s unveiling, Russia assumed that Armenia and Azerbaijan would abide by the last point of the Moscow-mediated November...
Japanese media reported over the weekend that the upcoming Quad Foreign Ministers’ meeting in India will include “steps to reduce reliance on China for critical minerals” on the agenda. That’s reasonable since their last Foreign Ministers’ meeting in July...
General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, head of the British Royal Navy, announced that his counterparts from the 10-nation Joint Expeditionary Taskforce comprised of the UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Netherlands agreed to create “a...
Russian Ambassador to Finland Pavel Kuznetsov gave an interview to TASS in mid-April where he detailed the new threats that Finland poses to Russia. In his assessment, “Today, the most serious challenge to our security is probably NATO’s extensive...
Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov described the threats facing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) during his speech at the group’s Defense Ministers’ meeting in Bishkek in late April. He began by sharing the backdrop: “In order to maintain global...
It was assessed in late April that “France’s Planned Nuclear Drills With Poland Just Made It Russia’s Top Adversary In Europe” due to the expansion of its nuclear umbrella eastward and Russia’s expectation that this might embolden Polish aggression...
Trump’s upcoming trip to China later this week is aimed first and foremost at making progress on their long-negotiated trade deal, which he envisages institutionalizing advantages for the US while his counterpart Xi Jinping wants to institutionalize advantages for...
It was assessed earlier in the month that Poland’s domestic political dynamics are “shaping up to turn next fall’s Sejm elections into a referendum on whether the US or the Franco-German Entente should be Poland’s top security partner”. The...
The Malian Crisis has become an international one after French media RTL confirmed late last week that not only is Ukrainian military intelligence operating on the ground in support of the “Azawad Liberation Front” (FLA), but that Paris is backing them as well....
A journalist asked Putin over the weekend about his reaction to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hosting Zelensky last week and giving him a platform to threaten Russia. Putin dodged that part of the question but elaborated on the...
