Eurasia

The future of the Wagner Group is in doubt. Less than a week after Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched his march on Moscow on June 23, which was then aborted mid-coup, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Wagner fighters who participated in the rebellion the option of relocating to Belarus. Putin …

Even as the whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers passed away, his second secret remains hushed. On June 16, the 92-year-old Daniel Ellsberg passed away. At RAND, he contributed to a top-secret 47-volume study of classified documents on the Vietnam War. Even though the war had been acknowledged to …

Beijing has nothing to offer Moscow in terms of ideology, but will gladly share its ideas for the economy and political control.The world’s first center for studying the ideas of Chinese leader Xi Jinping has opened in Moscow within Russia’s Institute of China and Modern Asia, part of the Academy …

Led by the United States and Germany, NATO gave Kyiv no date for joining the military alliance. This is a short-sighted decision that Russia will exploit. It was called the “Bakhmut-Vilnius Marathon—Raise the Flag of Ukraine in NATO.” It started off in Kyiv. For over a week, groups of Ukrainians …

Now that’s an opening act. On the eve of the NATO Summit in Vilnius, and after more than a year of twists and turns, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Monday that he would push forward Sweden’s accession into NATO. The announcement came after a meeting with Swedish Prime Minister …

Fatah Revolutionary Council member Abdel-Elah Atira said in a July 6, 2023 interview on Awda TV (Palestinian Authority) that Qatar’s Al-Jazeera Network spreads “poison” and has a strong anti-Fatah bias. He said that Al-Jazeera has an “obscene policy that strives to hurl the Palestinian cause towards infighting” and he argued …

Ireland-based exiled Fatah militant Jihad Jara said on a July 6, 2023 show on Awda TV (Palestinian Authority) that Fatah’s military wing, the Al-Aqsa martyrs’ Brigades, must “return to the fray in full force,” becoming a “deterring force, defending all the Palestinians.” He continued to say that it was the …

Earlier this year, I received a copy of Professor Chris Coyne’s new book, In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and Paths to Peace. In the book, Dr. Coyne, a professor of economics at George Mason University, seeks to answer a fundamental question—is the idea of …

Many assessments in the past week on the developments in Russia seem to indicate that the Wagner mutiny has weakened President Putin and that the outcome of the rebellion is the shattering of the image of invincibility that President Putin had cultivated in the past two and a half decades. …

Georgia failed to see any progress on its membership bid at NATO’s Vilnius Summit. That was unlike fellow applicant Ukraine, which managed to see some positive changes in its application while failing to get an accession timeline. Critics blame Tbilisi’s policies and the Georgian government’s lack of interest for this …