Everything is proceeding according to the US’ plan, which Vucic might have even secretly agreed to.

Corrupting a MiG-31 pilot armed with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles into defecting, only to then shoot him down near what’ll be NATO’s largest airbase in Europe, risked sparking World War III.

They’re fearmongering about Russia’s intentions towards those two in parallel with proposing closer US ties with them.

The most that might happen is a cabinet reshuffle since the SBU has no reason to support regime change against the man who unprecedentedly empowered them, nor does Trump since Zelensky does what he demands, but this scandal still discredits him and his government…

What did the foiled Ukrainian-British false flag plot aim to achieve? 🧐

The new strategic stakes that the US has in the region are expected to bolster its commitment to developing two new trade routes to there, which could lead to its Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Pakistani partners (who are allied with one another) putting more…

Italy’s potential extradition of a Ukrainian suspect to Germany could lead to a highly publicized (and predictably politicized) trial that implicates Poland in this unprecedented attack on a fellow NATO ally.

Armenia’s potential replacement of low-cost Russian grain with more expensive Ukrainian grain could worsen its already difficult financial situation and thus prompt Azerbaijan and/or Turkiye to propose a bailout in exchange for further sovereignty concessions…

The US is offloading most of the responsibilities for containing Russia onto Poland, the UK, France, and Germany while retaining a minimal presence along NATO’s eastern flank for “deterrence” purposes.

Lavrov did indeed inject some predictable polemics into his answers, which is his style as anyone who follows him knows, but those aren’t legitimate grounds not to publish his interview.

Here’s the full English-language version of the interview that I gave to Victor M.

Its well-connected lobbyists might have included anti-Russian arguments in their appeal to Trump to punitively tariff India for importing Russian oil, which he ended up doing over the summer and then sanctioned Russia’s energy industry in the fall, thus contextualizing…

The US already proved in the Malaysian and Cambodian cases that it can successfully weaponize tariffs to coerce targeted states into complying with its sanctions against third countries.

Its role might remain limited to Chinese missile and submarine tracking via THAAD and its upcoming nuclear sub respectively, but this would still be of great assistance to its allies in the event of a crisis.

Why might Armenia replace Russian grain with Ukrainian? 🧐

This might be a false flag to undermine the partial de-escalation of Polish-Belarusian tensions and provoke a worsening of Russian-US ones.

The ruling establishment fears that the AfD’s continued rise in spite of all prior smears could lead to the party one day breaking the “firewall” to participate in a governing coalition, possibly with the US’ behind-the-scenes support, which contextualizes…

Trump recently confirmed that the US will boycott the next G20 Summit, which will be held in Johannesburg this weekend, due to the Boer issue that his administration considers to be a genocide.

Will Ukraine’s $100 million corruption scandal take down Zelensky? 🧐

The emerging result is a “return to history” in the sense of former regional leaders restoring their lost spheres of influence with US support and all that entails for worsening tensions with the Sino-Russo Entente.