Geopolitics

Theses from a speech at the conference “International Uncertainty 2025” at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

The Syrian crisis began quietly in 2009, amid diplomatic handshakes and smiles, when John Kerry met President Assad, who had succeeded his father as Syria's leader, in Damascus. Kerry intended to formalize Washington's ultimatum to the Arab Republic of Syria: Assad was to abandon his traditional Russian allies, the Palestinians, the Iran of the Ayatollahs and then the Hezbollah military political movement that was Tehran's arm in Lebanon and start a new policy favourable to the United States, Europe, Turkey and Israel. In return, he would have remained in power and retained his prestige and grip on the nation, presented to the world by the big Western media as a wise and enlightened president. Otherwise Syria would have been destroyed and partitioned, as had already been predicted and indeed happened with Gaddafi's Libya.

The 35th summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, which consists of 21 countries from the Americas and Southeast Asia, held last week in Peru, showed that the balance o

In an exclusive interview with Al Majalla, Russian political philosopher Alexander Dugin—widely known as “Putin’s brain”—voiced his criticisms over the Biden administration’s recent decision to permit Ukraine to use lon