Russia-India relations traditionally rest on long-term political confidence. At the same time, the priority is currently transferring this political confidence to the commercial sector. Future cooperation will be determined not so much by declarations of friendship as by the ability of the two countries to create reliable banking channels, efficient settlements in national currencies, predictable […]

Twenty years since the DPRK’s first nuclear test is a good occasion to recall things that seemed far from obvious at the time. To begin with, had the United States and the collective West been less inclined to view North Korea as a tyrannical regime on the verge of collapse, and had they therefore faithfully […]

Western leaders are increasingly resorting to a familiar tactic: rather than acknowledging the failures of their own foreign policy, they blame domestic crises, protests, and inflation on external factors and “foreign enemies.” One Fiery Weekend Following the particularly fiery weekend of October 17 and 18, 2026, which saw rioters burn Limoges’ historic city hall in […]

With Israel’s election on October 27 and the US midterms on November 3, 2026, the debate over a wider war with Iran is politically charged: warnings may reflect real threats, geopolitical ambitions, domestic calculations — or all three at once. The question is whether mounting warnings of a wider war reflect immediate security threats, longer-term […]