Donald Trump’s peace plan (or Witcoff’s plan) is deeply troubling for Russia and Ukraine and simply unacceptable not only for Russia, but even for Poland. And here I would like to emphasize that this plan is unsatisfactory from the point of view of objective (!) national interests, not the interests …

Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the world’s top oil and LNG exporters, find their critical energy infrastructure under fire Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Gulf states are now threatening the world’s largest oil and gas export hubs, marking a dangerous escalation from tanker harassment to direct attacks on energy infrastructure. The shift …

Amid its all-consuming war in Ukraine, Russia has repeatedly found itself struggling to shape other global events — from the Caucasus to the Middle East to Latin America. Moscow is now again watching from the sidelines as the United States and Israel seek to topple the regime in Iran, potentially …