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 “Vladimir Putin”
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…
During the horrid thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, had President Kennedy not been made privy to proper and punctual intelligence,…
An Excerpt From My Magisterial Thesis: “U.S.-Russian Exceptionalism: Intelligence, MAD, and Détente”
An Excerpt From My Magisterial Thesis: “U.S.-Russian Exceptionalism: Intelligence, MAD, and Détente”
Conceptualization: the Quasi-inherent ‘Supra-international Balance of Power’ of MAD Post-Mutually-Assured-Destruction (MAD), it was no longer a question of tactic or strategy that molded the…
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…
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…
Upon the dramatic failure of perestroika, the ruse of NATO ‘non-enlargement’ associated with the Two-Plus-Four German unification treaty, and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact…
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…
WHILE A MILITARY SHOWDOWN, OR LIMITED ACTION OF SORTS, YET LOOMS AS A POSSIBILITY; an invasive occupation of Ukraine remains out of any Russian calculation;…
Taking the floor from the rostrum at the eighteenth annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin,…