Alistair Crooke ery occasionally, a single anecdote can almost completely summate a moment in history.  And this one – did it:  In 2005, Zbig Brzezinski, the architect of Afghanistan as quagmire to the Soviet Union, and the author of The Grand Chessboard (which embedded the Mackinder dictum of …

Alexander Dugin The fate of the world order is being decided in Ukraine. This is not a local conflict between two powers that have not divided something between them. It is a fundamental watershed in history. There is common practice to separate the interests and the values. Interests are connected with …

Records filed with the Federal Election Commission and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon in July revealed that billionaire George Soros, who regularly backs Democratic congressional candidates, provided $1 million to the Color Of Change PAC – an organisation backing the Defund the Police movement. Billionaire financier and …

John Keane The damage inflicted on the region by European imperialism was not forgotten – a backlash that continues to the present. Anxieties about the fate of liberalism are everywhere rising, as Francis Fukuyama makes clear in his latest defence of ideals he once described as “the endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolution”. …

Alan Cunningham The Intelligence Community (IC) is among the most important aspects of the national security and defense sectors of the United States. They allow for credible and comprehensive intelligence gathering and analysis for various national and human security threats while keeping the United States well defended from …

Wei Hongxu So far this year, the world has experienced a surge in inflation driven by rising energy and commodity prices in the post-pandemic environment, aggravated by global monetary easing and supply chain distortions. Inflation in the United States hit a record high of 7.5% in January. In …

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s support puts “paid” to any lingering notions of an enduring U.S. unipolar moment, and thoughts that a liberal democratic order is the settled future of world governance. Polling in many democratic countries shows a remarkable change of attitudes about deterrence and defense, …

The unfolding events in the post-Soviet space are challenging, but they will not derail our country’s march forward. The unfolding events in the post-Soviet space are challenging, but they will not derail our country’s march forward. The Russian-Ukraine conflict is a tragedy the scale of which the European continent has not experienced since long ago. Just two months prior to the outbreak of this war, Kazakhstan …

While commenting on the political situation in Pakistan — and the no confidence motion which the Pakistan Tehreek E Insaaf (PTI) government led by Pakistani PM Imran Khan is facing on April 3, 2022 — China said that it would not like to interfere in the domestic affairs …