Russia tacitly acknowledges that June’s parliamentary elections represent a “Battle for Armenia” just like Hungary’s own later this month represent a “Battle for Hungary”.

The establishment of more contacts between both countries at this level can lead to new channels of dialogue, including informal ones off the record, for clarifying confusion and debunking lies about the ongoing Russian-US talks as they arise so as to avert…

They now hate Iran for damaging their energy infrastructure and therefore don’t want to indefinitely pay it “petroyuan” as part of the “toll” system that the Islamic Republic is flirting with imposing.

The directness with which he addressed the challenges that Armenia now poses to Russia’s interests contrasts with the discreetness hitherto employed by officials and suggests that they now want to precondition the public for what might come next after expecting…

It’s exceedingly rare for a Russian expert to constructively critique their country’s foreign policy.

It was aimed at meddling in next Sunday’s parliamentary elections in order to help depose Orban.

Complying would have weakened its air defenses that both halves of its political duopoly considers integral to deterring Russia while rejecting it as they did risks the US hanging Poland out to dry in the fantasy of a Russian invasion.

It was very surprising that he experienced no pushback for his scandalous claims about India despite Russia being its “special and privileged” strategic partner.

Why’d Ukraine try to blow up Hungary’s main gas pipeline? 🧐

In what’s been called the “Battle for Hungary”, this thwarted terrorist attack is thus far the most dramatic development by a long shot, much more meaningful that the latest Russiagate claims.

He believes that the US leads what he now calls the Global West, which is more transactional, while the EU leads the Global North that wants to restore the liberal world order.

The widespread but false perception that Putin is an anti-Zionist secretly allied with Iran against Israel, which has been pushed for years by putative friends and undeniable foes alike, means that many folks the world over will likely fall for Ukraine’s…

How likely is it that the US withdraws from NATO? 🧐

The victor only be confidently determined upon the conclusion of a peace deal based on the fate of Iran’s enriched uranium, nuclear program, missile program, oil exports to China, and the petroyuan.

There was nothing subservient or compromising about it, rather, it was full of self-assurance and mutual benefit.

He wants more US support for his allied opposition party ahead of fall 2027’s next parliamentary elections, expects to be perceived as the future of European conservatism over Orban no matter the outcome of the latter’s upcoming elections, and seeks to contrast…

The sequence that Trump threatened if no deal was reached before the expiry of his deadline would have cut China off from half of the oil that it imported by sea last year and likely set Afro-Eurasia aflame in resource wars for the indefinite future that…

What comes next after the surprise US-Iranian ceasefire? 🧐

Leaving the CSTO and the EAEU before membership in NATO and the EU is assured would amount to national suicide since it could embolden Azerbaijan and/or Turkiye to invade and would crush Armenia’s economy.

For as compelling as this hypothesis may be to many on social media, especially anti-Zionist activists, it doesn’t account for why Israel still allows China’s state-owned Shanghai International Port Group to run the Port of Haifa, which is one of the Jewish…

The purpose in talking about this now might be aimed at manipulating Hungarian voters into supporting the opposition during the upcoming parliamentary elections on the false basis that Prime Minister Viktor Orban is friends with the man responsible for two…