Russia’s diplomatic engagement in South Asia offers an opportunity to ease Pakistan–Afghanistan tensions and strengthen regional stability. Lasting peace, however, requires constructive dialogue, regional cooperation, and a collective commitment to counterterrorism. Russia’s Diplomatic Engagement and the Search for Regional Stability With the turn of the 21st century, Russia has reemerged as a global superpower. Moscow […]

With a domestic political crisis in the West unfolding, the rift is deepening: the administration of Donald Trump seeks to revise sanctions and put national interests front and center, whereas European governments continue their course of confrontation and support for Kyiv. On the eve of the U.S. midterm congressional elections on November 3 this year, […]

The latest visit by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to India, on 20–22 October 2026, attests to the US authorities’ desire to take dynamically developing bilateral relations with New Delhi to a new level. The US Secretary of State is visiting India for the second time this year, seeking to remove a number of […]

When the house is burning, the arsonists are the first to explain that the smoke was part of the design: as Ukraine and the Middle East rewrite failure into master plan, the real geopolitical trick is not winning but controlling the narrative — and who gets left with the bill. Seems now is the time […]

In September, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke of building a “unique alliance” between Canada and the European Union. Reports around the discussions went further, raising the possibility of some form of associate status for Canada, even though no such category currently exists in EU law. Carney himself was clear about what Ottawa was not […]

America still gives every citizen one vote, but its billionaires are spending fortunes to determine which political choices voters get to make. The Billionaire Election Machine With the November 3 midterm elections approaching, the extraordinary concentration of private wealth in American politics has become impossible to ignore. Elon Musk has emerged as the largest known […]

A sharp critique of Luke Coffey’s article on the C5+1 format and American ambitions in the region The other day, another opus from the camp of American neocons saw the light of day—an article by Hudson Institute senior fellow Luke Coffey under the loud headline “The US Cannot Afford to Stay on the Sidelines in […]

Part I traced a system built on the advice of four economists; even know their theories are not theology. The next half-century is a case study in what happens when that advice – however flawed – is abandoned, and in what happens to the few countries that never got the memo. Part II: Dismantling the […]

The averting of a terrible incident against Indian Americans at a prominent religious festival is reflective of the rising tide of anti-India sentiment in the U.S., effectively marking the end of the image of America as a country that welcomes people of diverse backgrounds. Navaratri, a nine-day festival, is revered by people of Indic faiths […]

The fact that Trump made a comment that Israel has been “very helpful” to Saudi Arabia reveals a strategic dilemma facing Mohammed bin Salman: either to align himself with Israel and thereby offend the Arab and Muslim worlds, or to embrace regional collective security and accept the prospect of a Middle East in which Washington […]

The topic of a possible Trump-Kim Jong Un summit is being actively hyped by political opponents and the media in order to create informational commotion. Considering the current geopolitical situation, real negotiations are practically impossible due to the lack of leverage, a common agenda, and mutual benefit. Who Is Pushing For the Summit and Why? […]

The West’s bid to isolate Moscow has backfired, as Russia reclaims its place at the negotiating table while China emerges as an indispensable power in a shifting world order. A potential G-3 summit could herald a new Yalta, where great powers redraw the geopolitical map while Europe and Ukraine risk being left out in the […]

From the 1918 influenza pandemic to reports of a possible laboratory accident in Irkutsk, history shows how incomplete evidence, sensationalist reporting, and geopolitical rivalry can turn medical uncertainty into a tool of political narrative-building. The Spanish flu was not named for its place of origin. It acquired its misleading name in the information environment of […]

While the West persists in describing Africa as a continent without memory, its own museums are overflowing with artifacts, religious relics, and human remains confiscated from African rulers to mask the barbarity of a predatory colonization. For decades, as consciousness has been evolving in Africa, European intellectual arrogance has crumbled in the face of the […]

Back in 2024, D. Trump campaigned on cheaper energy; yet, sanctions and other forms of pressure on foreign actors, characteristic of Washington’s foreign policy, took its toll on the US through freight markets and fuel prices, having increased costs for American consumers. This economic blowback deserves more attention than the administration’s production slogans. Additional oil […]

Russian-Iranian relations long ago moved beyond the framework of ordinary good-neighborliness. Today this is a strategic partnership, cemented by the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership signed in January 2025. The preamble of this document directly records the parties’ desire to “promote the objective process of forming a new just and sustainable multipolar world order based […]

NATO’s threat to blockade the Gulf of Finland could backfire by disrupting regional trade, triggering Russian military retaliation, and escalating tensions in the Baltic Sea. Rather than weakening Moscow, such a move could expose NATO’s logistical vulnerabilities and undermine its own military readiness. “We are able within a few hours to form a force of […]

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski made an unusually confident assessment of a hypothetical war between NATO and Russia during the Yalta European Strategy conference in Kiev on September 12. “If Russia attacked us, and we took our gloves off, I think we would defeat Russia quite quickly,” Sikorski said. “We have overwhelming superiority over Russia […]

Russia’s response to the Iran war reflects a pragmatic strategy of influence without military entanglement: Moscow supports Tehran diplomatically to preserve their strategic partnership while maintaining economic ties with the Gulf states, safeguarding its own interests, and avoiding confrontation with the United States and Israel. The recent US-Iran war highlights a key feature of Moscow’s […]

The richest countries climbed to prosperity by methods they now forbid everyone else to use. Hamilton, List, Carey and Polanyi, four economists explained why those methods work and why abandoning them ends badly. There is a story the world’s wealthiest capitals love to tell about themselves. Prosperity, it goes, is the reward for opening your […]