Geopolitics

Now a year after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the UN General Assembly firmly and sternly rebuked Russia’s brutal war against a sovereign country. With a thumping majority of 141 in favor, only 7 against and 32 abstentions, the Assembly again issued a non-binding resolution demanding Russia’s military withdrawal from Ukraine and calling for a “comprehensive, just and lasting peace.” Read More.

Iran has reached the point where it is close to weapons-grade uranium enrichment at 90 percent, according to international atomic monitors cited in reports by Reuters and Bloomberg. Read More.

For the third time in its short history, Israel, by the will of fate or metaphysical destiny, once again finds itself in the epicenter of the struggle of the Western world with supranational totalitarian systems. Read More.

The military junta which seized power in Burma, aka Myanmar, two years ago remains in power but is increasingly challenged by both its own citizens and targeted economic sanctions.  Now a wave of international political pressures is steadily growing to force the junta from power and presumably create conditions for the return of a democratic government. Read More.

Communist China is planning to develop new ground stations in Antarctica in an effort to expand surveillance and data collection abilities that already pose a major strategic threat to the United States, an analyst said. Read More.

George Soros, Charles Koch, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund are bankrolling progressive activists aiming to revive the Iran nuclear deal despite the Teheran regime's violent crackdown on weeks-long, nationwide protests in Iran, a Feb. 6 report said. Read More.

The fascinating but bizarre Chinese “weather balloon” incident has raised disturbing and very unsettling questions about Beijing's high-altitude breach of American airspace and indeed sovereignty. Read More.

South Korean intelligence, in a joint effort with prosecutors and police, has launched an investigation into a massive North Korean spy network that has long been active nationwide. Read More.

The lingering aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the widening war in Ukraine and the knock-on effects of food and energy shortages, alongside high inflation battered the world economy in 2022. Read More.

South Africa, China and Russia will hold their second trilateral naval exercise from Feb. 17 to 27, a clear victory for China’s program of militarizing its quasi-alliance structures that could soon create an axis for Africa-South American military cooperation. Read More.

It’s seems like a profound contradiction; trying to convince Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities to accept foreign humanitarian help for their own starving population. Read More.

As Team Biden was approving sending U.S. Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine in what military analysts said was an overt escalation of the war, former President Donald Trump was pleading for peace, and saying he could absolutely deliver it. Read More.

Births in Japan plunged to a new record low last year, dropping below 800,000 for the first time, according to official estimates. Read More.

There’s a significant sea change affecting Japanese defense policy. Some would say it’s the result of a political tsunami. Others would argue it’s a long overdue wake up call. Read More.

In a desperate behind the scenes scramble to keep up the steady supply of arms and ammunition demanded by Ukraine, the Pentagon has tapped into stockpiles of U.S. ammunition in Israel and South Korea, reports say. Read More.