... responsible for finance and procurement of the defense department, were behind the arms supplies to Hamas.
In Israel, back in June 2023, there were concerns that weapons supplied to Ukraine could be used in the Middle East. In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Benjamin Netanyahu reported that Western anti-tank weapons intended for the Ukrainian Armed Forces had been spotted on the borders of Israel.
The Hamas attack of 2023 confirmed the validity of Tel Aviv's mistrust of Kyiv. The Palestinian ...
... predominance of individual states or unions. A way of thinking about international relations which differs from the European one offers much more flexibility, it reflects the geographical environment, where there can be no permanent allied relations and no conflicts of high ideological charge.
However, there are also differences of a more essential nature. It is necessary to take into account that the absolute majority of countries that are now friendly to Russia are medium-sized states that do not have ...
..., Moscow worked to regain lost status, prestige, and influence on the world stage.
Syria symbolized the culmination of that process: Russia’s first decisive intervention beyond its immediate post-Soviet neighborhood in one of the world’s central conflicts.
The new Russia had acted militarily before, but only within its former Soviet sphere. This presumably led then-US President Barack Obama to dismiss the country as a
“regional power.”
The Syrian intervention shattered that perception. By ...
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The rest of the oil is produced in the Kurdish AASIS (Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria) zone. After the USA, occupying this zone, imposed a de facto embargo on oil supplies from there for Damascus, there is a severe shortage of fuel ... ... trend over the past two years towards building new regional alliances. This was prompted by such factors as fatigue from ongoing conflicts, the need for mutually beneficial economic cooperation in the face of slowing global growth and disillusionment with ...
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...
... status, protect the Russian language, and respect the rights and freedoms of its citizens.
The Istanbul Agreements initialed on 29 March 2022 by the Russian and Ukrainian delegations could serve as a basis for the settlement. They provide for Kiev's refusal to join NATO and contain security guarantees for Ukraine while recognizing the realities on the ground at that moment. Needless to say, in over two years, these realities have considerably changed, including in legal terms.
On 14 June, President ...
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,...
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...
... the end of the aggression. The special military operation must be continued until victory. Our enemies must know that if they do not retreat, the legendary Russian patience will run dry, and the death of each Russian soldier will be paid for with thousands of lives on the other side.
It will be impossible to prevent the world from sliding into a series of conflicts and subsequently a global thermonuclear war unless our nuclear deterrence policy is drastically energized and updated. I have covered many aspects of this policy in my previous articles and other documents. In fact, Russian doctrine already ...
