What really happened in Sumy? 🧐

Its most likely associated goals are ambitious but unrealistic to advance at least for now.

He proposed expanding economic cooperation with the first and praised the second as kindred Slavs.

The US might pressure him to assemble a government of national unity on pain of once again suspending military and intelligence aid if he refuses to dilute his power in lieu of holding elections.

The attention that France is paying to tactical details like the local terrain near the Romanian-Moldovan-Ukrainian trijunction suggests that its talk about an intervention in Ukraine is more serious than some think.

US control over the trans-Ukrainian and Nord Stream pipelines could incentivize the EU into concessions on their trade war while whatever seized Russian assets that the US obtains legal ownership of from Moscow could serve to justify ramping up pressure on…

The US might cut off military aid to Ukraine while suspending its strategic resource talks with Russia.

The Pakistani Establishment shares some blame for the latest terrorist upsurge together with America and the Taliban to differing degrees, yet WaPo avoided drawing attention to this for reasons that can only be speculated.

They’re low-cost and could be politically beneficial but are of questionable quality for now.

Vucic’s trip should be seen less as defying the EU and more as furthering his self-interests.

The possibility exists, but it should be centered on enduring economic interests that are less likely than political and security ones to shift with a change in government.

This is nothing but a recurring information warfare operation waged by the elites against their people.

The latest socio-political and security developments suggest that it relishes being a frontline state.

Did Russia gain anything from Putin’s Easter truce? 🧐

Poland is finally joining in the scramble for Ukraine after naively sitting on the sidelines all these years.

What’s Eurofascism? 🧐

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) published an article last week explaining how their country and the US are once again allied against Eurofascism.

The US might be able to replace Chinese companies’ dominant role in the DRC’s gigantic minerals industry if it plays its cards right but must avoid being dragged into a quagmire through mission creep.

From India’s perspective, the Pahalgam terrorist attack has Pakistan’s fingerprints all over it, hence why it’s considering at least one surgical strike across the border.

How likely is it that a potentially ultra-nationalist Germany “relitigates its borders or forgoes EU-style deliberation in favor of military blackmail”?