Colombian President Gustavo Petro thought that he’d rebalance lopsided relations with his returning US counterpart by abruptly rejecting two previously agreed military flights for repatriating his country’s illegal immigrants but was ultimately taught an unforgettable lesson. Trump reacted with...
Ralph Peters is a former US Army analyst who became famous in the mid-2000s for his article “Blood Borders: How A Better Middle East Would Look”, which proposed redrawing the region’s borders according to local identities. He justified this...
Here’s the full interview that I gave to VOA China’s FM Shakil on this subject, excerpts of which were published in their report on 20 January titled “安全和阿富汗问题将考验2025年中国与巴基斯坦的关系”
Sino-Pak ties officially remain excellent, but they appear to have been placed...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Putin during their Security Council meeting on the same day as Trump’s inauguration and while reviewing regional conflicts that “Let us not forget Afghanistan, where the Americans are also trying to restore their...
The media has been awash with reports speculating that Russo-Indo relations might suffer as a result of the US’ latest energy sanctions seeing as how they’ve recently centered on Delhi’s large-scale import of discounted oil from Moscow that could...
Zelensky demanded a minimum of 200,000 European peacekeepers during the panel session that followed his speech at Davos, which itself saw him propose that France, Germany, Italy, and the UK combine their forces with Ukraine’s in order to counter...
Outgoing Polish President Andrzej Duda gave an interview to interview to the Washington Post where he discussed several important topics, chief among them the Ukrainian endgame, which he suggested is inextricably connected to psychology and optics. Russia must believe...
President of Myanmar’s “National Unity Government” (NUG) Duwa Lashi La requested Ukrainian-like military aid in a recent interview: “We really need effective weapons, like antiaircraft missiles. But there are many limitations to obtaining such military weapons. It’s possible if...
Trump said a few words about Russia shortly after his reinauguration while signing Executive Orders in the Oval Office. They’re important to interpret since they might hint at his peace plan, which he’s yet to officially reveal, but reports...
Putin’s senior aide Nikolai Patrushev, who ran the FSB for nearly a decade (1999-2008) before chairing the Security Council for over 15 years till recently (2008-2024), made three predictions about international affairs in his latest interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda....
