Month: April 2019

Iran’s IRGC commanders and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Don’t Expect US-Iran War Before 2021

Trump will be extremely wary of getting into a shooting war with Iran. Trump knows only too well that a war with Iran will have regional ramifications and can hurt his presidency. His game plan through this year and the next will be to ensure that his “maximum pressure” strategy deters Iran from causing any serious political embarrassment during his campaign in 2020.

Yugoslavia map

A Short History of Yugoslavia (IV)

Part I, Part II, Part III The declining of Yugoslavia (1967‒1981)     In the last years of the Cold War (1949−1989), the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (the SFRY) was the largest, most developed and ethnoculturally diverse country in the Balkan peninsula (South-East Europe). It was a non-aligned federation comprised […]

NATO meeting

Rows Mar NATO’s Birthday Bash

In his initial remarks with the NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House on April 2, US President Donald Trump charged straight into his pet grievance that America “alone accounts for the vast majority of NATO defense spending ’s spending”. Trump failed to congratulate NATO on its 70th birth […]