Posts Tagged: russia
Putin Has Outplayed Trump — and the US and Israel Have Suffered
In 2009, I wrote that Russians are the world's best chess players, and that Vladimir Putin pursues foreign policy like a chess whiz who can...
Is the US Strategy on China Creating an Opening for Russia and Iran?
The world is in flux. Global geopolitical trends that existed before the onset of the coronavirus will only intensify in its wake, and US-China competition...
On Fifth Attempt, UN Security Council Renews Syria Aid Via Turkey
The United Nations Security Council on Saturday approved aid deliveries to Syria through one border crossing from Turkey, a day after its authorization for the...
Will China and Russia Compete in the Middle East?
Russia’s relations with the West are at their lowest point in two decades. Similar patterns of warming and cooling have taken place intermittently ever since...
Gulf Security: The Arab Gulf States Have No Good Options
According to one analyst, the US faces a stark choice in the Middle East if it continues its maximum pressure campaign against Iran: confront the Islamic...
Amid Russian Expansionism, Georgia Is an Ally of Israel and the US
Georgia’s relations with Israel have grown ever warmer since the establishment of diplomatic relations on June 1, 1992. The strength of the relationship was visible...
How China Uses Russia to Counter America in the Middle East and Elsewhere
The interrelation of Russia, China, and the West (primarily the US) will largely dictate how Eurasia develops in the coming decades. Will the super-continent disintegrate...
America Is Under Attack by the Spread of Disinformation and Other Means
We recently suggested that President Trump organize two task forces in order to address the most serious domestic and foreign threats facing America: Red Task Force:...
Russia’s Shift From ‘Greater Europe’ to ‘Greater Asia’
When the Ukraine crisis broke out in 2014, political analysts pointed out, quite rightly, that Russia without Ukraine would become more Asian. With the country’s...
After Soleimani Killing, Putin’s Role Will Grow in Iran
As the emotional tide following the January killing of Iran's Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani ebbs, we have a clearer perspective on what the event...
Amid Positive Outlook on Its US Position, Russia Faces Troubles at Home
In a change from recent years, internal developments in Russia are likelier to be far more significant for the country this year than geopolitical shifts...
Turkey Tells Russia That Attacks in Syria’s Idlib Must Stop
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday he told his Russian counterpart that attacks in Syria's northwestern Idlib region must stop immediately and that...
Russia Questions Feasibility of US Peace Plan for Middle East
A Middle East peace plan presented by US President Donald Trump contravenes several United Nations resolutions, Russian news agencies cited a Kremlin spokesman as saying...
What Putin Said at the Holocaust Forum…
JNS.org - Predictably, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech to last week’s World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem raised hackles among the responsible guardians of Holocaust memory....
