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New Eastern Outlook |
Zelensky in Belgrade: How Far Can Balancing Go? On August 7, 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Belgrade for his first official visit to Serbia. On...
Is Pakistan Being Dragged into the US-Iran War? With Pakistani lives lost in the Red Sea, Islamabad can no longer sit on the fence, yet retaliation...
GMOs, Food Safety and Modified COVID: Window Dressing for a Greater Game? When people ask why I believe Tulsi Gabbard’s disclosures confirmed what...
Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Hits an Israeli Wall: What Comes Next? Netanyahu’s demand for a complete disarmament of Hamas before any IDF troop...
The historian’s opinion. Will the Global South Unite? Why the online enthusiasm for an “Islamic NATO” in the Middle East is largely premature?...
The Arctic breakthrough: how Russia is redrawing the map of global maritime transport The Northern Sea Route, promoted by Russia as an effective and...
Why Gaza’s Latest ‘Breakthrough’ Is No Breakthrough at All Without a credible political solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Gaza...
The Mecca Defence Pact: A New Security Architecture or a Coalition Without an Enemy? The Mecca defence pact brings Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and...
Anduril: “Hyperscaling” the Worst of America’s Military Industrial Complex Arms manufacturer “startup” Anduril, headed by billionaire Palmer...
Poland’s Applause Problem: When a President Talks of Murder On August 6, 2026, Polish President Karol Nawrocki stood before a crowd at the...
The Caspian Sea: America’s New Eurasian Containment Arena The Caspian Sea — for thirty years a backwater of great-power politics — has quietly...
Iran’s Interests and the Mecca Defense Pact Iran’s future response will likely entail close monitoring of both the opportunities and threats posed...
The Dollar Without Petro: Dual Hormuz–Red Sea Blockade Cuts Saudi–US Crude Oil Exports to Zero Throughout the entire month of July 2026, the US...
How Washington disguises as defense what it has always practiced as aggression US foreign policy, built on military intervention, sanctions, applying...
The Durand Line Is Becoming a Front Line Again. The Attack That Restarts the Cycle On July 24, 2026, an armed group attacked a joint army-police...
Indonesia – Russia Military-Defense Cooperation in the Context of Exercise Orruda 2026 The joint Russian-Indonesian naval exercises, Orruda-2026,...
Red Sea Under a New Flag: Why Saudi Arabia Is Assembling Its Own ‘Maritime Coalition’ Instead of simply asking the West for protection, Riyadh is...
The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement: A View from Pakistan The strategic military defence alliance among Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye reflects...
How AIPAC Learned from Genêt’s Mistakes: Foreign Influence, Now with Better Lawyers. Part II Nobody gets accused of privateering. Nobody gets...
What Is the Next Weapon? The Rise of the Adaptive Military Ecosystem Every generation of warfare produces a defining weapon, but history shows that...
The EU’s Surveillance Paradox: Criticising Authoritarianism While Practising It The EU’s contradictory rhetoric about protecting digital freedoms...
The Makkah Mutual Defense Agreement: The Muslim World’s NATO Moment — And Why Washington Should Be Worried The Saudi–Turkey–Pakistan defense...
Trump vs Brazil: The New Battle for Latin America – A Revival of the Monroe Doctrine? When Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warned...
From Gaza to Michigan: How Foreign Policy Shaped El-Sayed’s Victory El-Sayed’s victory exposes the cracks in America’s pro-Israel political...
The Kurdish Enigma: Between Self-Dissolution and Drones Suppression or Reformatting? How Turkey’s Century-Old Equation Enters a New Phase. But...
The Mecca Pact: An Alliance Built to Survive Without America When Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed a mutual defense pact in Mecca, they were...
Prospects for BRICS–EAEU Synergy In June 2026, Moscow hosted the BRICS Horizons Forum, where Indian experts presented a concept outlining the...
The Pentagon’s Defensive Arc: Retreat Disguised as Strategy? The Pentagon’s “Defensive Arc” is not just a troop redeployment but a silent...
Türkiye Seeks New Allies: Ankara Calls for NATO Alternative On July 18–19, 2026, Ankara hosted a landmark conference organized by the Patriotic...
Is the UK an Innocent Onlooker to Corruption in Its Former Colonies—Now Strategic Partners? While Kenya-UK relations are presented as glossy, a...
Tehran’s priorities and approach in the new phase of the war with the U.S. and its allies Iran has raised the cost of any aggression to a level that...
Strengthening the Strategic Partnership: Outcomes of the Visit by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK to Moscow Choe Son-hui, the Minister of...
Ceuta as a geopolitical lesson: how the US and Israel “punish” Spain In Ceuta, Israel and the United States are sanctioning Spain for its support...
The Yemen Trap: How Saudi Arabia Lost to the Houthis – and Why It Now Needs the World’s Help After spending a decade trying to defeat the Houthis...
Indonesia – Kazakhstan Relations Through the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) Cooperation Contemporary international relations are characterized by a...
Athens vs Brussels: How National Interests Shape EU Sanctions Policy The European Union agreed on its 21st sanctions package against Russia on July...
The Cognitive Cold War: AI Sovereignty and the Battle for the Noosphere While the world watches the semiconductor supply chain, a far more insidious...
Saudi Arabia’s Maritime Coalition: The Rise of Regional Security Leadership Saudi Arabia’s new maritime defense alliance is not merely another...
“The Pipeline Will Solve Everything”: Turkey Loses Revenue but Refuses to Give Up Ground in Iraq In late July 2026, the information space was once...
Why Egypt’s Port Attack Should Worry the World When strategic chokepoints become battlegrounds, regional wars quickly become global crises. The...
America’s Long Arc of Military Failures To “secure its national interests”, America went to war multiple times over the past several decades,...
The Red Sea Security Coalition: A Saudi Initiative Saudi Arabia and 13 partner countries have announced the establishment of the Red Sea Maritime...
Trump’s Last-Minute Halt: Strategy, Caution, or Capitulation? Trump’s repeated threats followed by last-minute retreats risk turning American...
Is Ceuta a U.S. and Israel Revenge on Spain? Weaponising Migration as a Proxy War The sudden mass crossing into Spain’s North African enclave raises...
Mackinder’s Heartland vs Spykman’s Rimland: Neither Is Winning for the “Motherland”! For anyone still selling the West’s grand strategy as a...
Bulgaria’s Bezmer Base and the Logic of American Power Projection On July 22, 2026, the Bulgarian parliament voted to authorize the deployment of up...