In essence Russia, China, India, Iran and other central Asian republics are trying to stabilize Kabul. The US and its NATO allies are touching bases towards their strategic ends to deftly neutralize Russia and China.
Lavrov: Not Russia alone, Europe too is US target
The change in world order entailed gains and losses in global stature. The West, led by the US would, sooner or later lose its hegemony. The instruments it had developed to advance its control of the world order would now be employed to arrest its decline – accelerating expansion of NATO, eastward.
TikTok in China versus the United States
In CBS '60 mins' last week Tristan Harris, the leading researcher on Chinese high level social media strategy revealed how TikTok is designed to waste entire generations across the world, such that Chinese youth become the leaders of the future to dominate the world.
Chastened by the Mid-Term verdict, Biden may encourage Ukraine negotiations
How far towards negotiations Russia, Washington over Ukraine are inclined will be revealed in their respective body language when Anthony Blinken and Sergei Lavrov meet at the G20 Summit in Bali on November 15-16.
November Congressional results may determine Biden-Putin meet at Bali
Media disinformation notwithstanding, one outcome of this war is more or less established – we are transiting from US hegemony to a multipolar world. The process became imminent in 2008.
The Sunak factor showcases Britain at its best or decline?
Had Sunak’s ancestors, who left Gujranwala, now in Pakistan, come directly to Britain where would they have settled? It is difficult to map them because they left for Kenya before India was Partitioned. In a sense, Sunak is Idi Amin’s gift to Britain.
If US has its way, Iran protests will grow
When the Economist speculates that the protests may well be the precursor to a regime change because of the "exhilarating bravery" of the women, Tehran better take note.
How the CIA failed Iranian informants in its secret war with Tehran: In a series of internal cables last year, CIA leadership warned that it had lost most of its network of spies in Iran and that sloppy tradecraft continues to endanger the agency’s mission worldwide.
America’s Throwaway Spies
Rise and fall of Gorbachev: My two and a half interviews
For 31 years since his fall Gorbachev must have suffered in silence the rank betrayal by his western interlocutors on what they promised him when he was in power. "I can now see clearly" he told me "They were working according to a plan." Watch Saeed Naqvi's interview with Mikhail Gorbachev.