In January last year, I wrote a piece on how the great powers were sleepwalking back to 1914. What has changed since, is that one…
Posts tagged as “NATO”
CHAIRMAN KHRUSHCHEV TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY OCTOBER 28, 1962 “Dear Mr. President: I have received your message of 27 October. I express my satisfaction and thank…
The Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict is one of the most intricate, protracted, and ethnic-based historical conflicts. The historical account thereof is laboriously extensive, and beyond the scope…
What I find most disconcerting at present, almost seven months into the war in Ukraine, is the popular oblivion to the actual peril and the…
If you’ve accessed any social media platform over the past few days, you surely have come across “Breaking News” from mainstream media on the miraculous,…
To recap, by the end of 1991 and for the first time since 1721, Russia was neither an empire nor the de facto and uncontested…
As the war in Ukraine enters its eighth day, the rationale behind Putin’s sudden swing from a diplomatic approach engaging France and Germany to a…
The Ukraine crisis has certainly got the world on a fear frenzy, as though it summoned the phantom of the ‘thirteen days’ of October 1962…
WHILE A MILITARY SHOWDOWN, OR LIMITED ACTION OF SORTS, YET LOOMS AS A POSSIBILITY; an invasive occupation of Ukraine remains out of any Russian calculation;…
All eyes on the borders! But, which borders: the Russian-Ukrainian or the Polish-Belarusian borders? Well, it doesn’t really matter so long the borders of concern…