Moscow’s anti-U.S. rhetoric has suddenly been toned down, signaling a potential change in attitude and direction.
Continue readingThe U.S. Is Trying to Light the Match of Islamic Extremism in China’s Xinjiang
The information war now conducted by the United States against China centers on Xinjiang. Once again, the United State uses longstanding problems—such as the rise of extremism in Central Asia (fueled to some extent by the United State since the 1980s)—to create problems for its adversaries.
Continue readingWhy Ukraine’s Borders Are Back at the Center of Geopolitics
Firing across the Ukraine-Russia border has stepped up, egged on by Biden’s full-throated support of Zelensky’s newly found anti-Russian ambitions.
Continue readingTime Is Not on Our Side in Libya
The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the capital and is now holding fast in the city of Sirte and at the airbase of Jufra.
Continue readingNATO Returns to Libya to Challenge Russia
The great game in Libya has begun surging with the United States shedding its strategic ambivalence and resorting to a proactive role.
Continue readingLibya Is Being Torn Apart by Outsiders
Last year, it became clear that the already chaotic Libya would slip into disaster.
Continue readingThe War in Libya Will Never End
What the NATO war on Libya did to that country is to turn it into a battlefield of other people’s ambitions, to reduce Libya into a chessboard for a multidimensional game that is hard to explain and even harder to end.
Continue readingRussia and Turkey Are Engaged in a Delicate Dance in the Eastern Mediterranean
Erdogan vows to send troops to Libya, where they may face Russian forces, but neither side wants a confrontation
Continue readingSanctions Are Genocidal, and They Are the U.S.’s Favorite Weapon
Far from precision-guided munitions, sanctions are weapons of starvation, which target the most vulnerable civilians for slow and painful death by deprivation of food and medicine.
Continue readingLibya’s Incoming Strongman Haftar Will Send the Oil out to Europe—and Keep Its Migrants In
European values are fairly clear: they want oil to travel northward, not people. Haftar, at the cost of the Libyans themselves, will make that happen.
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