Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Russia has been quietly arming Middle East militaries, including those deemed allies of the United States, a report said. The Center for Advanced Defense Studies has tracked numerous arms shipments from Russia and Ukraine to the Middle East over the last two years. In a report, the center cited shipments […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The government plane for Russia’s Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin was denied entry through the air space of Ukraine and Romania last week. Rogozin was on the sanction list of the United States and the European Union for his role in Moscow’s recent annexation of Crimea and territorial aggression […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com “Ex-President Viktor Yanukovych headed a mafia structure in Ukraine that spread across different state structures,” Ukraine’s acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky has charged. He further disclosed that Yanukovych’s mafia-like organization, syndicated nationwide, was set up in 2010 and had cost Ukraine upwards of $100 billion. Yet more shocking […]
UNITED NATIONS — The fate of Ukraine, one of Eastern Europe’s largest countries, hangs in the balance. On the one hand, ”spontaneous” political demonstrations and government building seizures by pro-Russian separatists, are bringing an air of deliberately planned disorder to the country’s eastern regions bordering Russia. On the other, rhetorical posturing by the United States […]
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 […]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama is on the verge of an historic triumph. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the American Left has been bitter about America’s victory in the Cold War. For decades, they preached moral equivalence between the United States and the Soviet Union. In their view, America was to blame for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The change in the political balance in the Black Sea region which took place on March 18, 2014, with the re-accession of Crimea into Russia, was not profound in terms of any of the normal arbiters of strategic power. Nonetheless, it changed the equation not […]
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 […]