President Donald Trump held an unscheduled meeting on Thursday, November5th, with Kirill Dmitriev, a special representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Dmitriev also is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund,
As the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region rolls on, war conditions have appeared in Russia for the first time since the Second World War. It is a stunning experience that an
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Ukraine’s strike on the Russian border, the largest by a foreign force since World War II, has dramatically altered the course of the war, at least for now. Ukraine launched a long-range
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Editor’s Note: On August 6, Ukrainian forces launched a surprise attack on Kursk. Amid deafening applause from Western media, Chinese strategist Professor Wang Xiangsui argues that the cross-border attack is more of
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Russia’s foreign intelligence service (SVR) says that the “west” is planning to replace Zelensky and will soon embark on a campaign to discredit him. Allegedly the candidate to replace him, says the SVR,
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Last week, Ukraine did what many thought impossible when it invaded Russia – and, indeed, something that had not happened since World War II. The implications are many, but first, some context.
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A Ukrainian drone strike has reportedly ignited a fire at Russia’s Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), causing significant damage to one of the facility’s cooling towers. Russia’s nuclear power agency, Rosatom, has
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Some of my readers say that there is a strong resemblance between the current Kursk battle and the Battle of Bulge that raged in December, 1944 to January, 1945. It is a
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The Russians got caught with their pants down in Kursk. The Ukrainians pulled off a large-scale invasion using new tactics. They advanced far into Russian territory, mostly unopposed, or countered only by
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For the past four days, elite Ukrainian soldiers have been mounting a major offensive deep into Russia, supported by American and German armored vehicles, in what is a stunning cross-border invasion that
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Over the past few days, two statements have come to redefine the Middle East – though they were issued not by Israel or Hamas but by the belligerents in a conflict more
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It is uncertain if the liberation of Bangladesh as a free and independent country would have been possible within nine months without the support of then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who
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Sri Lanka is poised to receive revenue from the China-built Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport after three years, following the handover of its operations to a consortium of Indian and Russian companies. This
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On the heels of a new alliance announced this summer by Russia and North Korea for a pact pledging mutual defense, with the support of China, it is now shockingly being suggested
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The Japanese government is preparing to use proceeds from frozen Russian assets for Ukraine. The money, $3.3 billion, helps to underwrite a larger loan that was approved by G-7 leaders in June.
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Nicholas K. Gvosdev, an expert in Russian affairs and Professor of National Security at the U.S. Defense College, wrote an article questioning whether Russia is a U.S. adversary or merely a competitor.
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