Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (center) receives a copy of an ancient manuscript of the Koran from Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) during their November 23 meeting in Tehran. It may not be the original version of the first handwritten edition of the Koran, dating […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy “The prospects are bright, but the road has twists and turns”. These are the words of Mao Zedong, but they could have belonged to Barack Obama. Unfortunately, “twists and turns” will be so numerous, that not many will manage to see the “bright prospects”. Obama believes that the agreement […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russian President Vladimir Putin says the military will add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) to its arsenal this year capable of “penetrating” any current missile defense systems. Putin said at the opening of the Army-2015 arms show in Alabino, west of Moscow, on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Describing the situation as a “collapse of law and order” in the territories controlled by the self-proclaimed rebel Republics, and amid on- going hostilities between the Ukrainian government troops and Russian backed separatists, a scathing new UN report overviews a fast deteriorating human rights situation […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy With Iran, another predator is set free during Obama’s cadence. They are not empires yet. They don’t have enough power or the resources for becoming such. However, all of them — Russians, Turks, Arabs, Persians — are dreaming about empires, recalling old conquests and victories. And all of them […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi on Dec. 10 in hopes of securing big-ticket deals. Putin’s Russia is feeling severe economic pain caused by rising global energy sources, falling oil prices exacerbated by Western sanctions to punish Putin’s gambit in Ukraine. India is by far the […]
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 With its recently-announced $3.5 billion deal to buy weapons from Russia, Cairo has undoubtedly undermined the U.S. Middle East policy and strategy. Though the agreement is preliminary, it is expected to face no major obstacles in the final delivery of the arms, including MiG-25 fighter jets, S-300 and […]
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 Crimea’s March 16, 2014, referendum to join Russia — there were only two options: join now, or join later — marked a significant watershed in the post-post-Cold War restructuring of the global strategic architecture. Not because it was so geopolitically surprising, but because it was […]