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02.12.2020
Behind Viktor Orban’s Defiance of a Brussels ‘Rule of Law’
Within the European Union in recent weeks the governments of Hungary and Poland have come under massive pressure from the EU Commission in Brussels for their threat to veto the extraordinary €1.8 trillion EU Budget on grounds that it contains provisions regarding mandatory immigrant or refugee quotas each country must accept. Both Hungary and Poland […]
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02.12.2020
US Struggles for Relevance in Southeast Asia
While many around the globe are hopeful that a change at the White House means a change for US foreign policy – many of the most contentious and disruptive aspects of US foreign policy carried out over the last 4 years were simply a continuation of policy that had already been in motion for years […]
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02.12.2020
Iran is Once Again Under Terrorist Attack
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for “final punishment” for those behind the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, for the murder of whom the Iranians directly accused Israel and the United States behind it. In his statement, the Supreme Leader called Mohsen “an outstanding man and an outstanding scientist in the country’s […]
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02.12.2020
On the Visit made by the Australian Prime Minister to Japan
In a series of notable recent events taking place in the Indo-Pacific region, a prominent spot was occupied by the visit made by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to Japan on November 17, where he held talks with his counterpart, Yoshihide Suga. Following that, a “Joint Statement” was issued, whose text can be found here. However, most […]
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01.12.2020
Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenian Defeat Trades One War 4-Another
The outcome of the Karabakh war is turning me into more of a cynic. I keep hoping it’s just a phase. However, based on the reality on the ground, not only in Azerbaijan and Armenia but the region as a whole, many questions are coming to mind. Now is the time to reflect on what […]
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01.12.2020
Fakhrizadeh’s Assassination Will Bring Security to Neither the US nor Israel
On November 27th, the treacherous murder that was committed in the suburbs of Tehran on a Friday, a holy day for all Muslims, of the leading Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh elicited strong reaction not only from the Iranian public, but from Israel, the United States, and the entire world. The scientist was an iconic […]
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01.12.2020
A New Strategy for China with Biden? Or is it Too Late?
During the Obama era, in which Biden served as Vice President, the US approached China quite differently. Will Biden be able to revert to a softer strategy? Donald Trump’s trade war with China is now being hailed by voices of Neoliberalism as an accomplishment. An editorial in The Economist wrote: “The achievement of the Trump […]
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01.12.2020
A Reminder of the Events that Occurred on Yeonpyeong
On November 23rd, 2020, South Korea pointed out the “10th anniversary of North Korea’s deadly artillery strike on the South Korean island on the border”, which killed two marines and two civilians, with more than a dozen injured. During a memorial ceremony at the Seoul National Cemetery, Defense Minister Suh Wook vowed to protect peace […]
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30.11.2020
Joe Biden will Militarize US Middle East Policy
Joe Biden, the US president-elect, won the elections on the promise of ‘re-setting US foreign policy.’ An important area of US foreign policy has always been the Middle East for both geo-political and geo-economic reasons. Under the Trump administration, the US got out of JCPOA, sanctioned Iran and even engaged in a limited military conflict. […]
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30.11.2020
The United States is Seeking to Take Control of the Elections in Kyrgyzstan
Hopelessly bogged down in its influencing of the Ukrainian crisis, which did not go as expected in Washington, the United States has been actively trying to defocus Russia’s attention in recent years by organizing riots in other CIS countries. One of them is Kyrgyzstan, which is vulnerable to external interference due to social instability, weak […]
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30.11.2020
US is Losing in the Militarily Race against Russia and China
The Trump administration, pursuing its adventurous policy and inciting hostility towards Russia and China, has recently repeatedly tried to demonstrate “intimidation” to Moscow and Beijing. Some times this took the form of a concentration of more and more armed forces near the borders of “two strategic adversaries” declared by Washington. One could also cite the […]
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30.11.2020
Update on the Issue of Gilgit-Baltistan in the Context of the “Kashmir Problem”
The former principality of Kashmir was among several hundreds of territories with varying degrees of autonomy on the Indian subcontinent, and in its environs, that became part of British India in the 19th century, the de facto heir to which is modern-day, completely independent Republic of India. But in terms of territory, the latter “inherited” […]