Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — Russia has reported a decline in arms exports in 2014. The Kremlin said Russian defense exports reached $13 billion in 2014, the second largest after the United States. The figure marked a 18 percent decline from 2013, when exports were reported at $15.7 billion. “We have so far exported weaponry […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Great Britain recently announced that it would re-establish a permanent military base in the Middle East. The site will be Port Mina Salman in Bahrain where the U.S. Fifth Fleet has its headquarters. The new base will cost the UK government $23 million to build, but most of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Six months ago, Russia launched a mysterious space device called the Object 2014-28E but no one knew exactly what it was and what it was supposed to do until the last couple of weeks. Experts have begun to realize that Object 2014-28E could well be Russia’s new satellite […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com A diplomatic war between Moscow and the West has flared up, the old fashioned Cold War way. The exchange occurred on the eve of the European Union’s meeting in Brussels to discuss further sanctions against Russia. A German female diplomat working in Germany’s embassy in Moscow was expelled […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com On the joyous occasion of the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev made a highly-charged speech at the Brandenburg Gate on Nov. 8, which represented an about-face in his worldview. Gorbachev chastised the West in general and the United […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com In its most provocative maneuver since the end of the Cold War, Russia dispatched waves of combat aircraft in a bid to penetrate NATO member states’ air space. No fewer than 26 Russian military aircraft in at least three groups were intercepted by NATO fighters that were scrambled […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Estonia, a NATO member state, is demanding an explanation from Moscow over an incident last week involving a Russian intelligence-gathering aircraft. The plane flew unannounced into Estonian airspace, provoking an emergency scramble by the NATO defense system. NATO confirmed that its F-16s were dispatched after detecting the Russian […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia and the Netherlands have accused each other of sending a submarine into Swedish territorial waters. On Oct. 17, the Swedish military launched a massive search for a mysterious foreign submarine in its territorial waters. The reports led to speculation that the uninvited submarine belonged to Russia and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com When U.S. Vice President openly chastised Turkey for allowing foreign militant fighters to cross its territory into Syria to join Islamist State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), President Vladimir Putin of Russia picked up the phone. Putin, estranged from the international community for his Ukraine gambit, called Turkey’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Last week, Jens Stoltenberg assumed the position of the Secretary General of NATO, replacing his hawkish predecessor, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The new chief is quite Russia-friendly — so much so he was evenly vigorously recruited by the KGB as an agent during the twilight years of the Cold War. Stoltenberg […]