The leaders of the Baltic States, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria met in Helsinki last month for the inaugural Eastern Flank Summit, which produced a joint declaration that can be read here. They assessed that “Russia’s strategic goals...
Foreign Affairs recently published a piece about how “Russia Is the World’s Worst Patron”, with the subtitle claiming that “From Syria to Venezuela, Putin Has Overpromised and Underdelivered”. It was co-authored by Alexander Gabuev and Sergey Vakulenko, respectively the...
Ukraine once again launched drone strikes against tankers connected to the partially US-owned Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which transits through Russia and serves as landlocked Kazakhstan’s oil export lifeline via which 80% of such sales are conducted. Energy exports...
Trump’s decree imposing 25% tariffs on any country doing business with Iran risks derailing the Sino-US trade talks, not to mention further worsening the economic situation inside Iran and therefore fueling more protests, but there’s another lesser-known but still...
France and the UK recently committed to deploying troops to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire as part of their latest proposed security guarantees to that country, the principle of which was praised for the first time ever...
Trump recently reaffirmed his intent to annex Greenland on the pretext that this would supposedly preempt China or Russia from invading NATO member Denmark’s autonomous territory. Many believe that his main motivation, however, is to obtain control over what’s...
Here’s the English version of the interview that I gave to Müstəqil’s Sahile Cabbarova about the latest US-Iranian tensions.
1. Does the U.S. administration view the current protests in Iran as a potential turning point toward systemic change, or as...
Reuters recently reported that “Pakistan nears $1.5 billion deal to supply weapons, jets to Sudan”, which follows last month’s report from them that “Pakistan strikes $4 billion deal to sell weapons to Libyan force, officials say”. It was assessed...
Trump 2.0’s grand strategy has become much clearer over the past month since the US bombed ISIS in Nigeria on Christmas, executed its astoundingly successful “special military operation” in Venezuela, and is now threatening new strikes against Iran on...
Stability in the Eastern Mediterranean can no longer be taken for granted as a result of three recent developments: 1) the growing Turkish-Israeli rivalry in post-Assad Syria; 2) Israel’s reported plans to establish a rapid response force with Cyprus...
