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The Russia-China-North Korea defense partnership
Understanding global geopolitics is complicated and challenging, especially today. Governments have complex relationships with each other at both the bilateral and multilateral levels. This...
Who Is Buying Africa? The Geopolitical Race for Influence, Resources and Power
With geopolitical situation heightening, the world's players are strategically expressing their interest in Africa, and African countries are also choosing their development partners. Many...
Russia Warns UK Could Become Target After Ukraine Uses British Missiles
Russia has warned that it may target British military sites in Ukraine and elsewhere in response to Ukrainian attacks inside Russia using British cruise...
Frozen Russian Assets, Take Two: What Europe’s Revived €210 Billion Plan Means for Ukraine, Belgium and the Euro
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€210bn (frozen Russian assets Brussels wants to mobilize) · €90bn (fallback EU loan already agreed) · €23.1bn (Ukraine's funding gap even with that...
There’s No Neutral Sensor Left in the Arctic — Here’s What That Means for NATO and China
On 6 June 2026, the NATO research vessel Alliance slipped out of La Spezia, Italy, bound for the High North. Its mission, Task Force...
Russia Expresses Readiness in Normalising Relations between ECOWAS and the Alliance of Sahel States
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ghana's Foreign Minister Samuel O. Ablakwa, after an intensive strategic consultation aimed at raising bilateral relations from vision...
Can Russia’s “New Ideas” Bring the Ukraine War Back to the Negotiating Table?
Russia is prepared to consider new proposals for ending the war in Ukraine, but Moscow says any settlement must account for what it describes...
Brussels Can Now Sanction Any Refinery Buying Russian Oil. Why Did It Give the First One Six Months to Comply?
On July 23 the European Union used its newest sanctions tool for the first time. Buried inside its twenty first package against Russia was...
The Barrels OPEC+ Can’t Actually Deliver
On August 12th, Bloomberg reported a number that should unsettle anyone still reading OPEC+'s monthly quota announcements at face value: Russia's actual crude output...
China’s New Arctic Gamble Has a Russian Catch
China's new Arctic route cuts the journey from Ningbo to Europe in half. What the headlines aren't saying is that every mile of it...