The era of Washington’s belief in the need to manage global affairs is coming to an end, and the president-elect will help shape the world
Let’s be clear, the outcome of the US election won’t change the world. Processes that didn’t begin yesterday won’t tomorrow. But the American vote has become an important indicator of long-term change.
The columnists of the liberal New York Times, which actively supported Kamala Harris, declared on the morning after the election: It is time to recognize that...
'Dangerous Consequences' for US in Ukraine
Newsweek: As the Ukraine conflict continues, how different is Russia's position than in 2022 and how are the costs of conflict being weighed against the progress made toward strategic objectives?
Lavrov:
Our position is widely known and remains unchanged. Russia is open to a politico-diplomatic settlement that should remove the root causes of the crisis. It should aim to end the conflict rather than achieve a ceasefire. The West should stop supplying...
The decision was long overdue and is a response to reckless agression from Washington
Updating Russia’s nuclear doctrine is certainly not a spontaneous step. It is long overdue and is linked to the fact that the current level of atomic deterrence has proven inadequate. Especially given that it failed to prevent the West from waging a hybrid war against our country.
Until recently, the desire to inflict a strategic defeat on us was considered insane and impossible, given that Russia is a nuclear...
... sort of behavior seen in the first half of the 20th century. But history indicates that the international system’s transformation is unlikely to be entirely peaceful. Hence it was assumed that the modern version of a world war is a series of local conflicts of various scales, whose outcomes define the new international system. Events since the early 2010s—Iraq and Syria—seemed to confirm this assumption, and they entered into their decisive phase with the outbreak of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh,...
Perhaps it does not require much effort to demonstrate the extent of Israel's involvement and active participation in the global war launched against Syria since 2011, which represented a real opportunity to settle scores with the resistance axis, which has become a real deterrent to their influence[1]. Consequently, Israel has been an important partner in the war from the beginning, starting with plans to rely on the Muslim Brotherhood movement, in addition to the understanding with some Gulf states...
Kiev’s leadership isn’t acting in the interests of its own people; instead, it serves Washington’s agenda and those of its closest allies
Ukraine is not a sovereign state. Russia is dealing with an entity that isn’t acting in its own interests, and one operating directly on its borders at that. Therefore, interaction with such a territory – including formal negotiations – would be outside the usual customs governing relations between normal countries.
International politics – even war – is always...
... have reacted according to their capabilities.
However, it is too early to think that we could see a major regional war as a result. In any case, there are no obvious prerequisites for one. This, of course, compares with all the previous large-scale conflicts around Israel in the second half of the twentieth century. What seems more likely at the moment is that its neighbors and adversaries will show restraint.
First, because none of them is currently pursuing a revolutionary foreign policy. Until ...
In geopolitics, the actors of international relations are classified as sea power and land power according to their main power trajectory during military operations. Land power operates its army in terrestrial areas more successfully while sea power projects its forces along the maritime routes more operatively. For example, Russia and China are categorized as land powers and the US, the UK, and Japan are in the basket of sea powers. The other geopolitical domains of air, cyberspace, and open space...
While the world is focused on the crises taking place in Ukraine and Palestine, another region is showing signs of growing instability: the Balkans. Specifically, two key areas in the Balkans – Bosnia and Kosovo – have yet to be permanently stabilized, even after the wars in the nineties. However, while in Kosovo tensions remain at bay and the possibility of a major conflict not eminent, in Bosnia and Herzegovina the situation is quite different.
Source: AFP
This country, whose sovereignty is protected...
Edging closer to catastrophe...
For long, I have been watching the world move inexorably towards a wave of military conflicts threatening to deteriorate into a thermonuclear World War III that can likely destroy human civilization. This prognosis was one of the main reasons why I published a series of articles about why it is necessary to restore the credibility of ...
