Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken elaborated on the Biden Administration’s approach to the Ukrainian Conflict during a podcast with the New York Times whose transcript can be read here. He began by reminding his interlocutor about the US’...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave a year-end interview with TASS where he touched upon the most important developments from the past year that’ll likely shape events in 2025. From the get-go, he rejected Trump’s reported plans to freeze...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov elaborated on his country’s approach to the global systemic transition in an interview with Rossiyskiaya Gazeta in late November, which followed him elaborating on its Afro-Eurasian grand strategy in a separate interview earlier that...
Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote that “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing”, which is perfectly applicable when it comes to Pakistan’s post-modern coup against former Prime Minister Imran Khan in April 2022 that...
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) just warned that their country’s Syrian bases might soon come under UAV attack by Anglo-American-backed ISIS terrorists. This provocation is allegedly being plotted as part of their policy to weaponize regional chaos, stir trouble...
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak shared an update on the proposed Russian gas pipeline to China through Kazakhstan, which was analyzed here in November, shortly before the start of the year. He confirmed that “This process, so to speak,...
Pundits are discussing Ukraine’s decision to cut off Russian gas to Europe after Kiev refused to extend its five-year agreement with Moscow that expired on the first of the year, with the vast majority laying blame on the other...
New York Times contributor Rajan Menon wrote in a mid-December op-ed that Trump is unlikely to agree to give Ukraine the security guarantees that Zelensky is demanding in temporary lieu of NATO membership. He’s apparently unaware that Trump will...
South Asia is generally thought of as a comparatively stable region whose primary problems are socio-economic development, which shouldn’t be underestimated but isn’t the same as the geopolitical turbulence that West Asia and Europe have recently experienced. That might...
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev shared a theory about last week’s Azerbaijan Airlines tragedy in an interview that can be read in English here. He’s a graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO, which is run by...
