Trump announced over the weekend that the US and Nigeria carried out a joint operation against ISIS’ second-highest figure, which his counterpart Bola Ahmed Tinubu disclosed took place in the northeast Lake Chad Basin where its ally Boko Haram...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov proposed during a Q&A session after the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting in India that his host nation become the long-term mediator between Iran and the Gulf Kingdoms. The context concerned him being asked about...
The Third Gulf War fundamentally transformed the countries on both sides of this geostrategic waterway through which a significant share of the world’s oil used to pass prior to the outbreak of this conflict. While it’s not yet officially...
Speculation is swirling about the future of the US’ regional military presence after the Third Gulf War. While some anti-Iranian hawks are obviously in favor of retaining it, mostly citing the need to immediately enforce whatever terms are ultimately...
Dmitry Medvedev’s magnum opus on Germany’s remilitarization, which was reviewed and analyzed here, also included some commentary about Poland. In the order that he made his points, he believes that Poland might be exploited by Germany as a “blocking...
Reuters recently reported that “India has declined Russia’s offer to sell it liquefied natural gas subject to U.S. sanctions despite a shortfall driven by Middle East tensions, said two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, leaving a tanker...
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan flip-flopped from declaring that “Artsakh (the Armenian name for Karabakh) is Armenia!” and leading chants of “unification” when visiting that region’s main city in 2019 to recently asking “How was it ours?” and insisting...
Trump’s meeting with Xi prompted hopes that progress might be made on managing Sino-US tensions, but many of these same observers missed the meeting that took place in DC earlier in the week between the American and South Korean...
Trump 2.0’s Counterterrorism Strategy (CTS) was released in early May and sharply diverges from what the world has come to expect from the US on this issue. According to the administration, “Currently we face three major types of terror...
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...
