STRATEGIC ALERT Service

China kicked off its diplomatic activity for the new year, as is traditional, in Africa. This year, it began with the “Initiative of Peaceful Development in the Horn of Africa,” a region plagued by civil war, terrorism and a humanitarian catastrophe. The policy was presented by Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his four-day visit to Eritrea, […]

At an event in Damascus last week, Syria announced its participation in the Belt and Road Initiative through a memorandum of understanding signed by Syrian Planning and International Cooperation Authority Chair Fadi al-Khalil and the Chinese Ambassador to Syria, Feng Biao. The agreement follows Xi Jinping’s phone call with Syrian President Assad in November, and Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s trip […]

This week began with the first of a dense schedule of strategic discussions between high-level officials of the Russian government and Western powers. Unfortunately, but not so surprisingly, during and after the U.S.-Russia meetings in Geneva on Jan. 10–11, concerning NATO expansion in Eastern Europe and the Ukraine crisis, the personal diplomacy between Presidents Biden and Putin which seemed to […]

In 2019, the RAND Corporation, which is a major component of the U.S. military-industrial complex, published a report titled Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground, which offers a sort of updated gameplan on how to destabilize and weaken Russia. The website Moon of Alabama devoted an article to the report on Jan. 6 in the context of the riots ongoing […]

Following the publication on Jan. 5 of the protocols of the last Federal Reserve Board meeting in December, during which several board members pointed to the seriousness of the inflation wave, financial media and institutions are speculating about an interest rate increase soon, perhaps in Spring. Such a move would have a similar effect on the financial system as cutting […]

Power blackouts, albeit on relatively small and local or regional scales, have become a daily pattern in many European countries over the past years. They were caused, to a large extent, by so-called “repercussion disturbances” triggered by problems in coordinating calculable flows of electricity or gas between the hundreds of different operators in the grid. Before the European Commission’s first […]

Could it be just a coincidence that a little over one week before the beginning of a crucial round of strategic talks between Russia and the West, starting Jan. 10, violent protests broke out in Kazakhstan? That is hard to believe, especially given the strategic importance of this Central Asian nation. The events began with boisterous but peaceful demonstrations, most […]

George Soros and the National Endowment for Democracy. The NED, which was originally created as a “private” arm of the CIA, has been involved for decades in regime change operations throughout the world. In Kazakhstan, it has recently poured over $1 million/year into various activities. In 2020 alone, it funded some 20 programs, to the tune of $30,000 to $114,000 […]

Dr. Andrey Kortunov, the Director General of the influential Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), gave an interview to the weekly online Executive Intelligence Review on Jan. 6, in which he offered insights into Russian strategic thinking that one rarely hears from Western geopoliticians and media, that deny there is any validity to the security concerns raised by President Putin over […]

A dramatic 30-second video was issued Jan. 5 by the World Food Program (WFP), showing both hungry children and food delivery, with the text: “The situation in Afghanistan may have faded from the front page, but don’t let Afghan families fade from your mind. 8.7 million people are on the brink of starvation. Read that again: 8.7 million people are […]