1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1059+ words) Israel’s strategy in the Middle East is changing: the country is shifting from a targeted response to threats to a systemic containment of all regional players capable of challenging it. After Iran, Turkey has come into focus. Once allies, Turkey…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (530+ words) Against the backdrop of the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz due to the Iran–US conflict, Turkey and Iraq have agreed to expand the pipeline network, which allows Baghdad to diversify its oil exports and Ankara to strengthen its…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (71+ words) By reimposing harsh sanctions on Iran, the US is reverting to an exhausted policy that has failed for decades. America’s 40 trillion debt accumulated despite decades of plundering resource-rich countries suggests that Washington needs to try other ways of building a…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (374+ words) Europe continues to present the war in Ukraine as a sudden Russian aggression, but it was the result of three decades of NATO’s eastward expansion, which the West chose to ignore — until Ukraine became the battlefield. The so-called invasion is…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (314+ words) Iran is “entrenching” itself in Armenia through forging an alternative Eurasian transit corridor and increasing trade turnover to counter American pressure and attempts at isolation, rival projects in the Caucasus, and to bolster Armenia’s sovereignty over its southern regions. Key…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1118+ words) Israel’s strike on the old Syrian airbase of Abu al-Duhur, which Turkey had planned to use, is not a routine episode in the Syrian war. It is a signal to Ankara: Israel reserves the right to veto Turkish military presence…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (426+ words) Relations between Israel and Türkiye remain extremely tense. Following Iran’s footsteps, Sunni Türkiye is becoming the main geopolitical adversary of the Jewish state in the Middle East. Syria Strikes: Signal to Ankara Although the damage inflicted is significant, the primary…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (179+ words) The world’s richest and so-called “most powerful” military power is running out of the missiles it would need to fight the wars it claims it is ready for. A Superpower Living Off Its Reserves The Trump administration’s response to this…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (97+ words) The emerging global order is not evolving into a new Cold War of two rigid blocs, but into a fluid competition between rival strategic networks, with middle powers increasingly shaping the balance of power by refusing to align permanently with…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (866+ words) Jeffrey Sachs’s unexpected appearance on a little-known Armenian talk show is not a coincidence but a symptom of deeper processes at work. Why would a world‑class economist suddenly speak about the South Caucasus? The answer, likely, lies in the…...