Trump bends the arc of history in West Asia – Part I

An April 2023 satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC showing construction on an underground facility in the tangled mountains somewhere near Iran’s Natanz nuclear site which has been targeted by Israeli sabotage attacks multiple times Iran’s Islamic revolution is in transition   My one-week visit to Tehran to observe the presidential election last  June came …

Putin weighs in on the Syrian situation

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his Results of the Year annual marathon yearender interactive televised discussion with the Russian public and the media in Moscow on December 19, spoke at some length on the recent developments in Syria.  These were Putin’s first public remarks on the topic and, coming 12 days after armed opposition forces seized …

Who’s afraid of George Soros?

From left to right: Donald Trump, US Treasury-designate Scott Bessent and billionaire-financier& philanthropist George Soros  The raging controversy over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s allegation that the Congress Party leadership is hand in glove with the famous US financier George Soros with an infamous track record of funding the colour revolutions and regime change projects is snowballing. Congress …

Atlanticists mobilise to salvage NATO as Russia toughens its stance

Parts of the ballistic missile named Oreshnik (hazelnut) that Russia used in a strike on Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, November 22, 2024 The American film maker and philanthropist who created the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, George Lucas, once said, “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, …

A defining moment in the Ukraine war

Russian President Vladimir Putin took a meeting of the Defence Ministry leadership, representatives of military-industrial complex and missile system developers, Kremlin, Moscow, Nov. 21, 2024 The Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a statement on Thursday regarding the two attacks by Western long-range weapons on Russian territory on  November 19 and 21 and Moscow’s reactive strike on a facility within Ukraine’s …