https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Iran-Adapts-to-Shifting-Tides-in-South-Caucasus.html Two major developments in recent years – Azerbaijan’s reconquest (retrieval/return) of Nagorno-Karabakh and Russia’s unprovoked (provoked) invasion of Ukraine – created new diplomatic openings for Iran. The changed geopolitical environment has enabled Iran and Azerbaijan to smooth over what for much of the post-Soviet period had been a prickly relationship. At the same time, […]
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Washington Post article making the rounds today — As Russia steps up airstrikes and once again advances on the battlefield in Ukraine … President Volodymyr Zelensky’s options for what to do next — much less how to win the war — range from bad to worse. Zelensky has said Ukraine will accept nothing less than […]
Link Another major geopolitical shift is happening in Europe, this time in the South Caucasus.. This was stated by former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in an op-ed for Le Monde daily, in which he called on Brussels to leave its policy of maintaining neutrality between Armenia, which has preferred the line of the […]
The forest is more than one tree Posted on March 10, 2024 by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR Read entirely at link-‘Novorossiya’ rising from ashes like phoenix ‘Novorossiya’ historically — signifies a major initiative in the Kremlin’s geo-strategy, with global ramifications, as the conflict in Ukraine meanders toward a new phase. What lends poignancy to the occasion […]
Originally at NYT’s via archive.ph Disclaimer: I’m not a fan of the Pope. Nor am I taken with his alleged celebrity (the state of being well known). What is interesting to me is that someone well known, with a very large following would say these words aloud. Words that make sense in this situation. My […]
Oilprice.com Israel has greenlighted plans for 3,5000 new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli media report that the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expecting to be in Gaza for at least 10 years with the initial stage of war lasting 1-2 years, following by eights years of stabilizing a new […]
NATO trying to pass itself off as relevant, to justify it’s continued existence, in an entirely different world than when it was first created. But there is still no evidence that Vladimir Putin intends to invade any NATO member. John Sitilides- John Sitilides is a Senior Fellow in the National Security Program at the Foreign […]
I find this article employing misdirection tactics A mystery new weapon may have been used in a strike on the eastern Russian city of Belgorod that damaged a shopping center and left a number of people dead and injured, according to local reports. Mystery new weapon? Powerful explosions were reported on Thursday in Belgorod, which […]
Let’s see how this works out for Zelensky? Syrskyi is main candidate to replace Zaluzhnyi as Commander-in-Chief The most likely candidate to replace Valerii Zaluzhnyi as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine. Euractiv Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy removed on Thursday (8 February) Ukraine’s top […]
I’ve long, long, long been skeptical of these so called hactivist groups- This goes back better than a decade ago to, absurdly named, “anonymous” hactivist group. There are reports at my censored blog on this topic. You can read entirely at the link Nebula Hits an Unexpected Target It’s not likely this is an unexpected […]