Eurasia

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has offered an increased military partnership during the latest bilateral talks with his Malian counterpart Abdoulaye Diop in Moscow. The significance of Russian support is directed at fighting terrorism, and in enhancing the combat effectiveness of the Malian army and law enforcement agencies, including the …

Battlefield AssessmentFollowing Russia’s hard-fought seizure of Avdiivka last week—the first Ukrainian city in months to fall into Russian hands—evidence suggests that the Kremlin has shifted its focus toward inflicting maximum pressure and expanding its gains in areas surrounding the captured metropolitan area. According to open-source intelligence, Russian forces are mounting …

Simply put, the US is setting Greece up to become a long-term vassal, but its leaders either don’t realize it or don’t care. Greek media reported that their country agreed to transfer outdated Russian air defense systems and ammo to Ukraine at the US’ behest in exchange for Washington greenlighting …

This project is a much bigger deal than most observers have realized since it’ll play an important role in shaping the EU and NATO’s post-conflict future upon the inevitable end of their proxy war on Russia. Romanian media recently reported that their country is building the so-called “Moldova Highway” (MH) …

While Moscow opposes the “military Schengen” due to the ease with which it’ll facilitate NATO aggression against Belarus, Kaliningrad, and/or “mainland” Russia and regards Bild’s leak as ridiculous, the Kremlin isn’t troubled by Germany reimposing its hegemony over Poland through these means. Bild cited classified documents to report on Sunday …

Germany is poised to replace Poland as Ukraine’s top strategic partner no matter who wins the next elections since PO’s victory will likely lead to this happening right away while PiS’ would likely just delay this seemingly inevitable outcome for a short while. The only realistic way that this scenario …

The whole point is to leverage this geostrategic project to coerce uncomfortable compromises from Russia in the Ukrainian Conflict while facilitating the US’ “Pivot (back) to Asia”. The first goal might fail, however, but the second likely won’t. Several interconnected developments strongly suggest that Germany’s plan to capture control of …

Provided that Scholz was speaking sincerely in expressing the reasons why he’s opposed to sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine, then this suggests that he doesn’t have any idea about what his armed forces are doing behind his back, which risks dragging Germany deeper into this conflict. RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan …

1.4 million Gazans, more than half of Gaza’s total population, are cramped in the southern city of Rafah amid the looming Israeli threat to invade the city. Netanyahu’s aim for a “complete victory” could, according to UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffith, “lead to a …

On 14 February, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met at the Al-Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo. This marked Erdogan’s first visit to Egypt since 2012. The visit was an important watershed in Ankara and Cairo’s rapprochement that gained momentum after the two leaders met …