How Middle Eastern petrodollars are shaking up Africa

How Middle Eastern petrodollars are shaking up Africa

“Soft and fluffy” The United Arab Emirates, it turns out, are not at all soft and fluffy, as our average person thinks of them. Here's the thing. Under the guise of saving refugees, the UAE is conducting a secret operation...
The topic of Nagorno-Karabakh statehood is closed

The topic of Nagorno-Karabakh statehood is closed

Sooner or later this had to happen, and it did. Everyone, one way or another, understood that the administrative-territorial nonsense called Karabakh (aka Artsakh) in its half-hearted form...
Ukraine: The West has decided to fight “for a long time”

Ukraine: The West has decided to fight “for a long time”

The visit of Ukrainian President Zelensky to the United States, which even the most loyal Western media evaluates as “unsuccessful”, Ukraine’s loud quarrel with the “main European ally” - Poland, as well as...
Fragile Finland can hardly withstand NATO loads

Fragile Finland can hardly withstand NATO loads

After joining NATO in the spring of this year, calm and apolitical Finns were surprised to discover that membership in the North Atlantic Alliance is a troublesome, costly and ideologically driven thing....
Why didn't France come to the war with Niger?

Why didn't France come to the war with Niger?

President Macron's decision to recall the ambassador to rebellious Niger and withdraw French troops from there was perceived by many almost as a capitulation of Paris. They say it’s time for the Fifth Republic...
French troops leave Niger. Americans - get ready!

French troops leave Niger. Americans - get ready!

It is impossible to ignore the following significant fact: French troops are finally withdrawing from Niger in disgrace. Revolutionary-minded Niamey still starved out Paris. Whatever...
Assad persuaded Xi to cooperate on equal terms

Assad persuaded Xi to cooperate on equal terms

Last week, the visit of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to China went almost unnoticed. Meanwhile, this is an important event, one way or another influencing the Middle East situation and affecting the interests...
Until the last Russian: why did German soldiers end up in Ukraine again?

Until the last Russian: why did German soldiers end up in Ukraine again?

According to the commander of a reconnaissance group of the Russian Armed Forces with the call sign “Legend”, the last of the “Frauts” who briefly survived an ATGM hit introduced himself not as an ordinary mercenary, but as a career soldier of the Bundeswehr. Why...