Russia is dying out; here’s why
For the many Russians fleeing the Putin regime, the collapse of their world is a personal tragedy. It’s also a...
Putin’s plans backfire, Finland and Sweden will join Nato
Until recently, Finnish leaders saw Nato membership as an unnecessary provocation to Moscow. London: It was all so predictable. Last...
Will Vlad go nuclear?
Many would consider reminders of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as alarmist, but the fact remains that nuclear weapons, or at least...
Why Vladimir Putin is unlikely to survive his invasion of Ukraine
There is even growing speculation that his personal decision to go to war with Ukraine was as a result of...
Is Putin’s war on Ukraine really about religion?
Putin told the crowd that Saint Fyodor had once said that ‘the storms of war would glorify Russia’. ‘This is...
China plans to replace Russia as Serbia’s bestie
China’s investments in Serbia recently exceeded three billion euros and Chinese infrastructure loans were in excess of eight billion. Last...
Why are Russian armed forces performing so badly?
What is surprising to the military analysts in the West, is the ineptitude of Russian forces in a war that...
China will be the big winner from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The upside for China will be that as Russia becomes more economically and politically isolated, Beijing will seek to profit...
Peacemaker Turkey, between a rock and a hard place
Of all the countries in the region, the war in Ukraine has put Turkey in the most difficult geopolitical position....
Vladimir Putin is destroying Russia’s future
Vladimir Putin was willing to pay a high price for a gain, but is ending up paying a higher price...
Echoes of Grozny and Aleppo reverberate around Ukraine
With the Kremlin’s plan of a quick victory and the installation of a puppet government in Kyiv having convincingly failed,...
Putin has made the European Union great again
‘And just as Vladimir Putin thought that he would destroy European unity, exactly the opposite has happened. Cooperation is solid...
Is Vlad mad or simply bad?
This is no longer just about Ukraine; every former Soviet state is, by implication, now in the firing line. A...
Could Ukraine be neutral, like Finland?
Putin’s current aggression is pushing more and more Ukrainians away from Russia towards the West. It was exactly three years...
Will Russia’s embrace of China create geopolitical problems for India?
It has been said that as Russia’s problems with the US become sharper and its alliance with China deeper, the...
Londongrad is key to sanctions against Russia, but they won’t work
Some experts are expressing a different note of caution. Additional sanctions might send signals to oligarchs that it is time...
Ukraine crisis exposes NATO’s deep faultlines
When Putin decided to create the current crisis, it was probably beyond his wildest dreams that the reaction by Western...
Brinkmanship over Ukraine as Putin insists it’s our land, our people
The roots of this artificial crisis lie in Putin’s pan-Russianist obsession. In his eyes, borderland countries with ethnic Russian populations,...
Will 2022 witness American Civil War 2.0, or will that happen in 2024?
For the first time since the 4-year civil war ended in 1865, America finds itself with a major Party that...
Is it a bluff, or will there really be war in Ukraine?
US negotiators at tomorrow’s meeting must seek ways to de-escalate the looming conflict, while finding face-saving ways for Putin to...
Czechia leads EU’s anti-China group; will Germany join?
On his first day in office, the new Prime Minister Fiala sent a message to capitals around the world: ‘Our...
If it had turned out differently, Putin might still be driving a taxi
Recently declassified documents reveal how hard Mikhail Gorbachev struggled throughout 1990 and 1991 to preserve the Union against the independent-minded...
With nuclear talks on the brink, Israel is preparing to attack Iran
The JCPOA allowed Iran to enrich uranium to 3.67% purity. Now released from its obligations, Iran reached the 60% level,...
Vladimir Putin is whitewashing Russia’s dark past
Putin wants to control the historical narrative in Russia. The Kremlin aims to legitimise its authoritarian practices by imbuing the...
