Increasing Alignment Between the US and Türkiye Means Trouble
Washington and Ankara are getting mighty cozy as the project to encircle Iran picks up steam.
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Ukraine Rare Earths Deal Is Nonsense To Mining Experts
Professionals try to put a stake in the heart of the Trump rare earths deal palaver.
Read more...Russia-US Negotiations: Trump Criticism Follows the Bad Sign of the Lack of a Joint Statement After Last Round and the Iran Angle
Having barely started, the US-Russia negotiaions are already going a bit pear shaped.
Read more...Trump’s Desire to ‘Un-Unite’ Russia and China Is Unlikely to Work – In Fact, It Could Well Backfire
The oh-so-clever US intends to drive a wedge between China and Russia, after having been mean to Russia and still mean to China.
Read more...Putin’s Senior Aide Patrushev Shared Some Updates About the Arctic & Baltic Fronts
Even with a settlement in Ukraine and geopolitical thawing in the Arctic, the UK, Baltics and other refusniks can still cause trouble.
Read more...Trump Trying to Retrade Minerals Deal with Ukraine
Trump engaging in more self-defeating behavior, assuming he really does want a Ukraine settlement with Russia.
Read more...Replacing Foreign Aid: A Macroeconomic Plan B for Ukraine (and Europe)
Some Serious Economists make an analytically desperate justification of Europe providing big-ticket economic assistance to Ukraine
Read more...Will Russia Expand Its Ground Campaign Into Sumy, Dniepropetrovsk, and/or Kharkov Regions?
Where might Russia take the Ukraine conflict next?
Read more...Putin’s Nyet to US-Ukraine Ceasefire Scheme: More Than Meets the Western Eye?
More on the Russian rejection of the US-Ukraine ceasefire scheme, now from Putin himself.
Read more...Russian Negotiator Reiterates “Nyet” on Ceasefire Even Before US Emissary Steve Witkoff Arrives in Moscow
Russia nixes the barmy US-Ukraine peace scheme faster and more directly than expected. What next?
Read more...So Much for Trump’s Peace Deal with Russia: US Backs Zelensky with Pre-Rejected-by-Russia Ceasefire Scheme
After the (arguably deserved) humiliation of Zelensky after an Oval Office row, the negotiation plan agreed in Jeddah is a big win for him
Read more...Charting the Uncharted: The (Un)intended Consequences of Oil Sanctions and Dark Shipping
An estimate of the magnitude of dark-shipped oil suggests that removing sanctions would raise, not lower, oil prices.
Read more...Authorities Reject Georgescu’s Presidential Candidacy, Sparking Violence In Bucharest
Western media continue to lie about the reason Romanian courts nullified the country’s November presidential election and are now preventing an anti-NATO candidate from running.
Read more...The Empire Rebrands: Foreign Policy Under Trump 2.0
The woke imperium is dead. Long live the American AI “post-democratic” empire.
Read more...New Analysis from Economists for Ukraine: The Cost of US Aid to Ukraine Is Less Than Half the Official Figures
A granular analysis of US military and direct aid to Ukraine finds the official tallies are greatly overstated.
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