Eurasian
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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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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…
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Exactly a year ago, when Charles Michel from the European Union was heavily courting Armenia the present writer noted in an article entitled EU Expansionism in the South Caucasus: “It seems that the EU, blocked in Ukraine after it provoked the disintegration of the Ukrainian state (in 2014), is now hell bent on expanding into…
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On 6 July President Putin made a significant speech in the Kremlin’s St Catherine Hall. Putin was meeting with the leaders of the State Duma and the heads of party factions of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. Here are the important sections of the Russian President’s speech: “The so-called collective West led by the United States has been extremely aggressive towards Russia for decades. Our proposals to create a system of equal…
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A month before the Russian military intervention in the Ukraine the British Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss stated: “… the number one thing that will stop Vladimir Putin taking action (in Ukraine) is if he understands the costs of that action. This could result in a quagmire like the Russians saw in Afghanistan or Chechnya, and he should…
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The following question and answer session with myself, mainly on the economic war, was published in Russian in Eurasia Expert on 17 June. Here is the full interview in English: Q: China and India reduce the effectiveness of Western sanctions against Moscow by increasing purchases of Russian energy resources. Is it likely that more and…
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Noting the 40 billion dollar aid package voted by the US Congress to the government in Kiev along with the increasingly bellicose statements being made in Washington and London, the New York Times editorial team has expressed alarm about how “the U.S. aims and strategy in this war have become harder to discern, as the…
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Samuel P. Huntington’s ‘The Clash of Civilisations and the Making of the World Order’ originally appeared in article form in the illustrious Foreign Affairs periodical in 1993. The initial article generated more discussion in the United States than anything written since World War Two and it was expanded into a famous book by the author,…
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Caption: Is this how the crisis in Ukraine ends? The current war in Ukraine has now been formally recognised as a Western proxy war against Russia by no less than the current British Foreign Secretary, Elizabeth Truss. And there are strong indications in her statement of intent last week that it is only the start…
