A regional war is now brewing over the Middle-East. The dimensions of its scope, nevertheless, have not yet visibly manifested. These past few days, Israel…
Posts tagged as “NATO”
Regardless of where you stand on the political spectrum, your exposure is the same. Regardless of which side you’re on, all sides are party to…
In January last year, I wrote a piece on how the great powers were sleepwalking back to 1914. What has changed since, is that one…
CHAIRMAN KHRUSHCHEV TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY OCTOBER 28, 1962 “Dear Mr. President: I have received your message of 27 October. I express my satisfaction and thank…
The Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict is one of the most intricate, protracted, and ethnic-based historical conflicts. The historical account thereof is laboriously extensive, and beyond the scope…
What I find most disconcerting at present, almost seven months into the war in Ukraine, is the popular oblivion to the actual peril and the…
If you’ve accessed any social media platform over the past few days, you surely have come across “Breaking News” from mainstream media on the miraculous,…
To recap, by the end of 1991 and for the first time since 1721, Russia was neither an empire nor the de facto and uncontested…
As the war in Ukraine enters its eighth day, the rationale behind Putin’s sudden swing from a diplomatic approach engaging France and Germany to a…
The Ukraine crisis has certainly got the world on a fear frenzy, as though it summoned the phantom of the ‘thirteen days’ of October 1962…