by Ghassan Kadi Much has been said about Putin’s 1st of March 2018 speech; a speech that should well and truly be known in the future as the “Putin Manifesto”, and no analysts have been better able to examine its political and ...
Read More »Lavrov: U.S Strike On Syria Will Have “Grave Consequences”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned on March 13 that a new US strike on Syria [Washington threatened to do this on March 12] will have “grave consequences”. “If a new strike of this kind takes place, the consequences will be ...
Read More »Newly revealed Russian weapons systems: Political Implications
[This analysis was written for the Unz Review] For those interested in the military implications of the recent revelations by Vladimir Putin about new Russian weapon systems I would recommend the excellent article entitled “The Implications of Russia’s New Weapon Systems” ...
Read More »Canada’s Envy: Russia and China
by Cameron Pike I attended a presentation entitled “Rising China: What Lessons Can We Learn From the 19th Party Congress?”, given by Guy Saint-Jacques, former Canadian ambassador to China under Stephen Harper. Guy was asked a question about China’s Belt and Road ...
Read More »Putin’s stunning revelations about new Russian weapons systems ( It’s Over)
If you have no read it yet, please check out Putin’s full address to the Federal Assembly. What stunned me, and many others, are the new weapon systems Putin has announced. First, he confirmed that the Sarmat ICBM would replace the ...
Read More »Making sense of the Russian 5th generation fighters in Syria
[This article was written for the Unz Review] When I got an email from a friend telling me that a pair of Su-57s was seen landing at the Russian Aerospace Forces base in Kheimim, Syria, I immediately dismissed it as ...
Read More »Globally Top-Respected Experts on Middle East Warn Syrian War May Produce WW III
by Eric Zuesse for The Saker blog Abdel Bari Atwan, the retired editor-in-chief (1989-2013) of the pan-Arab newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi and author of widely respected books on the Middle East, headlined on February 18th, “A superpower confrontation could be triggered by accident ...
Read More »Russian Presidential Elections: boring, useless and necessary?
[this analysis was written for the Unz Review] As the Presidential elections in Russia are drawing near I am amazed to see how much interest this event is generating in spite of the fact that it sure seems to me that ...
Read More »COTD: Lessons From History
This comment was chosen by moderator HS from the post “Syrian War Report – February 13, 2018: Israel Deploys New Anti-Missile Systems Near Syria”. The moderator felt the comment was exceptionally informative. Comment by Auslander Our world is slowly, actually ...
Read More »Escalation in Syria – how far can the Russians be pushed?
[This analysis was written for the Unz Review] Events in Syria have recently clearly taken a turn for the worse and there is an increasing amount of evidence that the Russian task force in Syria is being targeted by a systematic ...
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