Obama’s pro-Marxist foreign policy revived by Team Biden in northern Africa

Obama’s pro-Marxist foreign policy revived by Team Biden in northern Africa

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by correspondents in Addis Ababa, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed Ali on June 28 called a unilateral ceasefire in military operations against the Tigré (Tigray) Popular Liberation Front (TPLF) forces in Tigré Region of Ethiopia. This allowed TPLF forces unfettered access to the regional capital, Mekelle, […]

UK’s Prime Minister Theresa May opposed Brexit, names Boris Johnson foreign minister

UK’s Prime Minister Theresa May opposed Brexit, names Boris Johnson foreign minister

Special to WorldTribune.com By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs LONDON — Incoming UK Prime Minister Theresa May on the evening of July 13, 2016, was asked by the Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II, to form a new Government, following the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron. Immediately after her audience with the Queen she announced the key […]

What foreign observers forget about post-Morsi Egypt: It’s the economy, stupid

What foreign observers forget about post-Morsi Egypt: It’s the economy, stupid

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Egypt’s military leadership entered August 2013 without any illusions as to the magnitude of the challenges facing the Egyptian Armed Forces, the Egyptian government, and all of Egypt, in the coming months and years. The decision by the Supreme Council of the Armed […]

Oct. 7 Information War against Israel reveals new anti-West bloc

Oct. 7 Information War against Israel reveals new anti-West bloc

FPI / November 8, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Near East Bureau The Hamas breakout against Israel on Oct. 7 was consciously part of a broader Islamist initiative to build a coalition with the anti-Western bloc of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Russia, and Iran. In that respect, it was also […]

Unreported: Russia’s geostrategic breakthrough in the ‘Great Game’

Unreported: Russia’s geostrategic breakthrough in the ‘Great Game’

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, June 16, 2023 Russia appears to have finally won secure access to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, the goal it has pursued vigorously since the 17th Century: the old Great Game may be over, and the new begun. Russia’s inchoate, […]

Iran on the brink? Demonstrations and their suppression much worse than those that toppled the Shah

Iran on the brink? Demonstrations and their suppression much worse than those that toppled the Shah

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, September 26, 2022 Most of Iran’s 36 provinces saw mass demonstrations in September 2022 against the clerical Government of the Islamic Republic, and, as with earlier periodic waves of demonstrations, each occurrence prompts the question: Is this the outburst which topples the […]

Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II marked Putin’s sudden turning point

Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II marked Putin’s sudden turning point

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, Sept. 22, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin finally abandoned hope only in mid-September 2022 that he could re-build a bridge to the West. With that realization, he committed Russia into the new anti-Western pact. The turning point was the signal Putin received from the United Kingdom […]

Meanwhile at Number 10: Britain’s new post-Brexit PM charts a revolutionary course

Meanwhile at Number 10: Britain’s new post-Brexit PM charts a revolutionary course

FPI / September 21, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct With the global media fixated on the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, Great Britain was simultaneously coming under a new prime minister committed to fundamental policy transformation. In one of her first acts as UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss and her new Conservative Party government opened the exploitation of […]

Xi Jinping battles for credibility ahead of 20th Communist Party congress

Xi Jinping battles for credibility ahead of 20th Communist Party congress

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, August 5, 2022 Communist Party of China (CPC) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s internal civil war against his party rivals in the build-up to the XXth CPC National Congress — now likely to occur in November 2022 — took on new dimensions with […]

Moscow took the bait: Strategic lessons from the Russia-Ukraine War

Moscow took the bait: Strategic lessons from the Russia-Ukraine War

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, with input from Kyiv correspondent The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war — even as part of a much larger strategic conflict — has already begun to yield significant lessons for statecraft and military operations. The conflict was far from resolved during April 2022. But regardless of the completion […]

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