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Why Putin Wants Syria

The link between Russia’s strategic interests in Syria and Ukraine… Read more

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Vladimir Putin Addresses General Assembly’s Seventieth Session

Vladimir Putin’s speech to the UN general assembly… Read more

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RTE: On the Origins of Ukrainian-Crisis Propaganda, is the Western World Anti-Russian?

Who wins the Ukrainian propaganda war… Continue reading

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Obama vs. Putin – is the Cold War About to Return to the Middle East?

The upcoming Pax Russiana in the Middle East… Continue reading

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US Plays Monopoly, Russia Plays Chess

Whatever Putin thinks, he will keep to himself… Continue reading

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Russia-Iran Axis Gets Access

Has Obama’s Syria policy backfired?… Continue reading

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Syrian Diplomacy?

Since an attack is unlikely, what difference does that make?… Continue reading

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How Serious is Erdogan about Joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Instead of the EU?

Erdoğan is not going to initiate a divorce from the EU, but he may very well hope that the Europeans will “relieve” Turkey… Continue reading

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Turkey to Deploy Patriot Missiles

Turkey’s membership in NATO has many unique dimensions, including in the number of missile-related crises the country has experienced… Continue reading

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Russia-Turkey Strains Deepen over Syria

The Syrian crisis is a good test of the strength of the Russia-Turkish detente… Continue reading

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How Can Obama’s Middle East Policy Possibly Get Worse? Answer: Look at Syria

Some of my readers are unhappy that I keep criticizing President Barack Obama and his government. The problem is that this administration keeps doing terrible things in the Middle East… Continue reading

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The Al Houla atrocity: The outcome of nuclear diplomacy with Iran

Bashar Assad and his army chiefs can safely carry on with their “unspeakable crimes” for the next six months under the Iranian-Russian umbrella… Continue reading

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Did Russia Play a Major Role in Iran’s Capture of the US Stealth Drone?

Moscow is deeply involved in helping Iran repel the next and most critical stage of the cyber war… Continue reading

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Israeli and Saudi leaders meet in Moscow as Palestinians ramp up Missile Strikes

As Russian, Israeli and Saudi leaders discussed the ramifications of the Arab uprising in Moscow and… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Anti-Semitism on the Wane in Russia

Russia has recently shown clear signs of throwing off its long and tragic history of anti-Semitism. In the past several years… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Strong Pushback On the Turkey-Armenia Normalization

Burns stressed that the U.S. believes that progress on the Turkey-Armenia protocols could create political space for Sargsian to be more flexible on NK. He continued that the reverse was also true, that a failure of the Turkey-Armenia process would almost… Continue reading

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Obama and Netanyahu’s Assent to Bushehr – a Slippery Slope for Israel’s Security

The Obama administration and Netanyahu government greeted the start-up of Iran’s first nuclear reactor at Bushehr with extraordinary meekness, given the grim military and strategic hazards it represents for the region and Israel in particular… Continue reading

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Iran’s Gaza-bound ships ready for clash with Israel

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assured Turkish leaders that the vessels due to enter the disputed waters within days will not shrink from a head-on clash with Israel’s Navy and Air Force exclusion forces… Continue reading

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Israel Will Not Be CzechoSlovakia

Do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938, when enlightened European democracies decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a ‘convienient temporary solution’… Continue reading