On March 25, 1971, Operation Searchlight, authorized by the President of the country, began in the eastern part of Pakistan, which was unified at the time, aimed at forcibly curbing the Bengali opposition. Although there had been tendencies to gain autonomy and even secession before, especially after the victory of […]
Hybrid Wars
Is Europe Re-arming? The Jury Is Still Out
The EU has proposed a Re-Arm Europe Plan that would raise more than € 800 billion ($866 billion) for defense, while Germany has just passed legislation that ostensibly will commit €1 Trillion ($1.08 Trillion) to the defense sector. While on the surface it looks like Europe is preparing for the next war, […]
Ukraine Will Not Become A Member Of NATO
In the United States, the liberal media is hyping the idea that Trump has surrendered to Putin. However, the American President himself does not think so. The main goal of the American is to mediate and make peace between Russia and Ukraine. Nevertheless, even in this he is hampered by […]
Putin’s Senior Aide Patrushev Shared Some Updates About The Arctic & Baltic Fronts
The Arctic front of the New Cold War is thawing a lot quicker than the Baltic one since the first is where the US could prospectively cooperate with Russia while the second is where the UK could try to provoke a crisis with Russia. Putin’s senior aide Nikolai Patrushev, who […]
International Law Is Now Suspended, If Not Eliminated
A law cannot exist if there are individuals or organizations that fall within its scope but which stand “above the law” — can’t be prosecuted no matter how flagrantly they violate it. EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW IS THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF LAW, and if any exceptions can be allowed, those are ONLY […]
Why’d Russia Only Just Now Decree That Ukrainians Must Legalize Their Presence Or Leave?
This suggests that Russia expects a political settlement or at least an armistice within the next six months so it’s now prioritizing the further legitimization of its control over the new regions by finally completing their legal integration into the country at the local administrative level by 10 September. Putin […]
Careless People, Meta And Restricting The Digital Town Square
There is much talk in this age of heaving tech behemoths about the digital town square, where views can be aired with confidence, impunity and, at stages, disconcerting stupidity. Tech moguls such as Elon Musk are the loudest proponents of the view, claiming that “it is important to the future […]
The Ukraine War As A Turning Point: The Rise Of A New Ideological Challenge To Liberalism
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and its Western allies have sought to consolidate a unipolar world order based on liberal democratic values and free-market capitalism. This vision was famously articulated by Francis Fukuyama in The End of History and the Last Man (1992), where he […]
Putin Caves To Trump On Ukraine Ceasefire
On March 18th, Trump and Putin agreed on a deal in which Ukraine and Russia will have a 30-day ceasefire on attacks against each other’s energy infrastructure. The following superb discussion about it by three objective experts on geostrategy — Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson, retired from the CIA, and […]
The Baltic States’ & Poland’s Withdrawal From The Ottawa Convention Won’t Change Much
Russia isn’t a signatory nor does it plan to invade any of those four countries. The Baltic States’ and Poland’s Defense Ministers issued a joint statement on Tuesday announcing that their countries are withdrawing from the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (Ottawa Convention) in response to what they portrayed as new threats from […]
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