Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Washington’s non-military sanctions against Russia’s adventurist gambits in Ukraine is getting personal with the reported public disclosure of Vladimir Putin’s enormous, certainly ill-gotten, assets in a Swiss bank account worth more than $40 billion. Putin’s Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the reported measure “absurd,” believing it was a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com On April 14, a mobile missile launched at the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia successfully hit the target thousands of miles away at the Kura test center in the Kamchatka peninsula. RS-24 Yars is an advanced version of the Topol-M ballistic missile. It is the Russian Strategic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com After the UK, France, the U.S. and other key NATO member states’ suspended all military cooperation with Russia, the Ukrainian government likewise announced it would terminate all joint weapons development projects with Moscow. On the face of it, this would not seem to be a major development considering […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com As the 6th largest arms export country in the world, Ukraine has counted China as its top customer for the past two decades. On March 25, a Russian-designed Il-78 aerial refueling tanker plane conducted a final test flight after a major upgrade before being delivered by Ukraine to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Olexander Muzychko, the leader of a right-wing nationalist political group in Ukraine, was gunned down on March 24 in the western Ukrainian city of Rivne. Mr. Muzychko was best known in and outside Ukraine as an extreme nationalist with an anti-Russian penchant. Moscow tried to blame him as […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com A state-run Chinese newspaper has disclosed the great extent to which Ukraine has since 1991 helped the People’s Liberation Army gain key Soviet- and Russian-designed advanced weapons. [See: Putin’s gambit undermined Beijing’s ‘backdoor’ tech ties to Ukraine] Thousands of Ukrainian weapons’ experts have gone to China to participate in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com China’s most valuable and consequential strategic partner in regional and international geopolitics is undoubtedly Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The two countries share common anti-west policies and act in tandem on issues ranging from human rights to support for rogue regimes such as Syria, Gadhafi’s Libya and the mullahs Iran. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed on Feb. 26 that Moscow is planning to expand its military presence abroad and plans to build military bases in several important countries. Those countries include Vietnam, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Singapore and several others, the state-run news agency RIA Novosti […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Regime change in Ukraine proved to be relatively easy compared to the much tougher, far more consequential task of keeping the nation from breaking into two parts. And this is despite the volcanic eruption of violence and bloodshed that has riveted the world in recent weeks. Now the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia has announced its new Arctic military command, to be set up by year’s end. Russia is the world’s largest land country whose military structure is divided into four vast “Joint Strategic Commands” — Joint Strategic Commands West, South, Center and East. The new Arctic command, to be […]