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Deciphering Russian Foreign Policy and Its Changes Under President Vladimir Putin’s Administration: Directional and Adjustment Changes

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by Samaher al-Khatib * The Russian special military operation in Donbass constituted a new stage in the history of the modern world, characterized by new concepts, and with the arrival of this special operation to the date of signing the accession of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia to the Russian Federation, which preceded the accession Read more

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The Limits and the Potential of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

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A meeting among leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states, during any other year in the past, would not make the news. This year’s meeting, however, should matters. Yet, it was hardly covered in Western media. There are important reasons for why the world should pay attention to this 21-year-old intergovernmental organization (IGO). Read more

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The Edge of our World: The new century and the new priorities

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A global pandemic is generally enough to trigger a broad transformation with significant impact. A pandemic, an “Arab Spring”, a war in Europe, a climate crisis, and a shift in energy sources and consumptions make global change a certainty. That certainty becomes clear when looking at how each nation-state is maneuvering to secure space in Read more

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Western bloc to keep moving heaven and earth to exhaust Russia: another world war has just begun

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by Walid Sharara* Whoever doubts that the war in Ukraine is a global proxy war still, should review the positions issued by American and Western officials over the past few days. They no longer hesitate to reveal the actual objectives of the war they are waging against Russia. The revealing statement made by US Defense Read more

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Is this what a world war between nuclear powers looks like?

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On this platform, the 2011 war in Syria was characterized as a proxy war before it became obvious that it was so. Here, too, the war in Ukraine was characterized as a war between nuclear powers who cannot have direct military confrontation because of the danger of nuclear weapons that can be deployed. Now, with Read more

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Russia’s Decision to Counter Western Sanctions by Requirement Payments for Russian Goods by National Currency is Exceedingly Significant

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When direct military intervention is not a feasible option, US administrations and Western allies always used economic and financial tools to achieve their foreign policy goals. Imposing sanctions has become a reflexive, automatic reaction against any government that resists the current world order—the one dominated by Western liberalism. Such Western addiction to sanctions and embargoes Read more

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The Religious factor in the war in Ukraine

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Hosni Mahalli* Some Western commentators are now talking about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to revive the legacy of the Soviet Union, who previously said “its collapse caused the disintegration of historical Russia”. Others have pointed to Putin’s religious and sectarian calculations in his military intervention in Ukraine. The roots of these accounts go back Read more

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Zelensky’s Dream of a “Ukrainian Jihad”: Saudi Arabia is the incomplete link

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by Hussein Ibrahim On social media, and some on mainstream media, many have raised the possibility of Islamist fighters arriving in Ukraine to fight against Russian forces, whether from Europe or the Middle East, especially after the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced the formation of a corps of foreign fighters, recalling memories of the “Afghan Read more

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