Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Week-long Chinese-Russian naval exercises in the Yellow Sea ended April 27 with much official hype but little convincing enthusiasm. That’s because throughout the exercises China desperately tried to convince the world that a solid Sino-Russian military alliance was in the works. The Chinese Defense Ministry called the […]
Lev Navrozov One of our family’s aims in coming out of Russia and to the United States was to help Westerners to understand Russia, from which the West was cut off for almost a century, their only main source of information being what Soviet propaganda was feeding them. This week, as I was writing my […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com In a sign of the Kremlin’s increasing hostility toward NATO’s missile defense system, Moscow has begun deploying its most advanced surface-to-air missiles, the SA-21 Growler or S-400 Triumph, at its Baltic Fleet base in Kaliningrad, near Poland and Lithuania. SA-21 Growler is a highly sophisticated, long- to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran has been asked for data of an advanced U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle captured in 2011. Officials said the Iranian Defense Ministry has been approached by at least two U.S. adversaries for inspection of the RQ-170 Sentinel. The officials said China and Russia were requesting data from the advanced unmanned […]
Lev Navrozov Before Hitler invaded Russia, a fair answer to the question “Who’s going to win World War II?” would be Hitler’s Germany. Its military science and technology were developed more than in any other country. But history ruled otherwise — Hitler was defeated. Germany’s “military leader”, Adolf Hitler, considered himself to be the most […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Viktor Bout, known as Russia’s merchant of death, was handed a 25-year jail sentence in New York. Moscow was offended, and called it “absolutely unacceptable” and a “politically motivated” miscarriage of justice. “It’s even more outrageous that this is not the first politically motivated sentence lacking a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sheda Vasseghi, FreePressers.com On April 14, 2012, representatives from the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany (“5+1”) met with officials from the Islamic Republic of Iran in Istanbul to discuss its nuclear ambitions. Discussions were preliminary and introductory, and expectations for the parties to come to any agreement were low. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Based on an article by Cliff Kincaid for Accuracy in Media In another indication of his service to the Russians, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told The New Internationalist magazine that the Swedish security services intercept 80 percent of Russian Internet traffic and share the information with the United States. The claim […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com On March 30, six Chinese border guards officially replaced their Russian counterparts and assumed routine patrol duty over a 67-square-mile uninhabited area of the western part of an island that has been under Moscow’s control since the early years of the Soviet Union. The island is called […]
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — The Russian Navy has sent another warship to Syria during the Sunni revolt against President Bashar Assad. Officials said the Russian Navy has sent a destroyer to the eastern Mediterranean as part of what was termed a “routine mission.” They said the guided-missile destroyer would dock off the Syrian coast […]