Geopolitics
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After around 4 weeks of the much trumpeted NATO (Ukrainian) counter-offensive the Washington Post ran an interview with Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, the top officer in Ukraine’s armed forces. Zaluzhny, who had been mysteriously absent from public view for quite a while made it abundantly clear to the Washington Post that he was not at all…
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“The war I know about is not the war you’re reading about,” Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on Ukraine. “It is evident that the conflict, initially a limited territorial war, has evolved into a global economic confrontation between the whole West on one side, and Russia, backed by China, on the other. It has become…
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On December 20/21, France and Armenia had a UN Security Council meeting convened to debate the unfolding situation around the Lachin road in Azerbaijan, where a group of protesters were demonstrating against activities being conducted within the area under the control of Russian peacekeepers. France, a permanent member and chair of the UN Security Council…
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The following article is being published in 3 parts by Azerbaijan in Focus in shortened form. The updated and extended version below will hopefully appear as a Postscript to the forthcoming book, 44 Days; Karabakh from Occupation to Liberation, which I hope will be available soon: Two years after the Second Karabakh War how is…
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The news from Ukraine comes from the UK’s State Broadcasting agency, the BBC. The BBC constructs its news via journalists relaying the propaganda produced in Kiev and analysis from a network of British state security think tanks. Tom Stevenson, in reviewing a recent book written by one of the chief Ukraine analysts for the BBC,…
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Kiev has launched by far its most successful counter-attack since the Russian Special Military Operation began on 24 February this year. The Ukrainians gained large swathes of territory in the North East around Kharkov that Russian forces were occupying and administering, as opposed to simply performing military operations on. Does this constitute a turning of…
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After her spectacular expedition to Taiwan recently Nancy Pelosi has continued her “stir up trouble” world tour with a visit to Armenia. It should be noted that both anti-China Taiwanese and anti-Turkiye/Azerbaijan Armenians represent large voting populations in her Congressional District – California’s 12th. Crucial Mid-Terms are coming up and Pelosi has no problem swaggering…
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The “Chanak incident”, which occurred a century ago during September/October 1922, is virtually written out of British history – or referenced as a mere incident of no consequence. It is mentioned in the downfall of Lloyd George’s Coalition Government, with the Carlton Club and 1922 Committee, but only in passing, without explanation of its wider…
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The war being fought in Ukraine is Washington’s war. That should be clear after 6 months of intense conflict following 8 years of war since the US instigated Maidan coup in 2014. While there is a Russian military operation within the territory of Ukraine there is a Washington war against Russia being fought both within…
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Below is the slightly edited transcript of a discussion I had with Orkhan Amashov of Azernews early in August 2022 on a wide range of issues including Ukraine, Eurasian geopolitics, Azerbaijan, Russian peace keepers, the Karabakh settlement and peace process and the fall of Boris Johnson in the UK. Here is a link to the…
