Thanks to Dennis for directing this one my way Covert Geopolitics While the collective west is in the grips of an existential legitimacy crisis, the RIC is devising its own security order to protect the rest of the world from the ‘genocidals.’ The Hegemon has no idea what awaits the Exceptionalist mindset: China has started […]
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I’d seen claims the original Reuters report was deleted. But, it wasn’t. The headline was changed and the body of the report was rewritten. Yes, the UK gave Ukraine the green light to use British weapons to hit inside Russia. Atlantic Council Ukraine can use British-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia, UK Foreign Secretary […]
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, […]
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 […]