Category: 4. World

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead and the international system is entering a far more dangerous phase than many appear willing to acknowledge.

One may hold any opinion about the Islamic Republic of Iran, about its ideology or ruling elite. There are ample…

Following the drumbeats of war in the Middle East for weeks, the U.S.-Israeli missile strikes against Iran and the latter’s retaliation did not come as a surprise, but the survivability of the Iranian regime is now at question. Equally unsure is this whether this…

A sharp exchange between American and Indian representatives at last weekend’s Munich Security Conference offered a revealing snapshot of how the emerging world order actually functions. Following the line set by his boss, US President Donald Trump, US Secretary of…

Unlike our American cousins, the UK dish out consequences to Jeffery Epstein’s associates. Damaging revelations from the Epstein Files showed a problematic friendship with Peter Mandelson, who briefly served as Britain’s Ambassador to the U.S. His former boss,…

Tariq Marzbaan and Nora Hoppe conduct an interview with Professor Sergey Karaganov on nuclear escalation, US decline, Europe’s crisis, and the search for a post-capitalist model to “rehabilitate humanity.”

H/M: It is a great pleasure to embark on a fourth…

After last August’s meeting between the Russian and American presidents in Alaska, a new phrase entered diplomatic circulation: the “spirit of Anchorage.” The substance of the talks was never officially disclosed and can only be reconstructed from selective…

The current stage of the West’s war against Russia may be ending, but it lasted longer than it should have. Russia has so far lacked the decisiveness needed for active nuclear deterrence, the only solution to the ‘European problem’ that again threatens us.

But…

The recent U.S. raid on Caracas has inevitably provoked extreme reactions, ranging sometimes from enthusiasm to—much more often—astonishment and indignation. True, over 80 years of the post-Yalta order the world has got accustomed to cautiously observing…

USA and Russia Ready to Face Future

Fyodor A. Lukyanov, Christian Whiton, Mark Simon

As geopolitical tensions persist, the U.S. and Russia appear poised for a prolonged standoff—but could there be a path…