Geopolitics

Although he is no longer Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe continues to be his nation’s most recognizable, influential and outspoken statesman, especially in recent months leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine amid rising concerns China would follow suit in Taiwan. Read More.

Three men who were potential whistleblowers in a real estate scandal involving South Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-Myung have turned up dead, a report said. Read More.

Russian citizens are under the impression that the United States had "goaded" Vladimir Putin into invading Ukraine, Russian-American journalist and broadcaster Vladimir Pozner said. Read More.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Saturday held talks with both Russian leader Vladimir Putin Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Read More.

Russia has suffered a stunning political setback from the United Nations as Vladimir Putin pursues his ruthless attack against Ukraine. The diplomatic rebuff came amid Moscow’s widening military aggression on Ukraine which has created widespread civilian casualties and triggered a tragic refugee exodus from the East European country. Read More.

A native of Ukraine who now lives in France, but still has family in Kyiv, stunned French TV pundits during an interview when she said the “corrupt puppet government” was behind a great deal of her people’s suffering long before Russian forces arrived. Read More.

As the international price for crude benchmark Brent soars, China is purchasing oil at discount prices from Iran on a daily basis — and violating U.S. sanctions in the process. Read More.

An intoxicating establishment myth has risen from Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine: that of the stone-faced liberal and sophisticated freedom fighter for "democracy" and the "rules-based international order," otherwise known as the culturally libertine modern West. Read More.

Amid a dizzying blizzard of contradictory narratives about Russia and Ukraine, George Soros wants to make one thing perfectly clear: He supports Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. Read More.

Joe Biden’s disastrous decisions on Ukraine include "military aid that is inadequate, intelligence that is imprecise, and sanctions that are ineffective," an analyst wrote. Read More.

A pre-Olympics summit on Feb. 4 between Chinese Communist Party (CCP) supremo Xi Jinping and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, which produced an unprecedented 5400-word joint statement, has consolidated their alliance against the United States and pushed the world further down the road toward a new Cold War. Read More.

Both Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have said that American consumers are about to pay a heavy price after Team Biden on Tuesday slapped sanctions on the Kremlin over the situation in Ukraine. Read More.

An army of police, some of them mounted on horseback, has been deployed in Ottawa and Toronto and have been caught on video brutalizing Freedom Convoy protesters amid Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's imposition of martial law in Canada. Read More.

For nearly a decade now, China’s “Belt and Road” commercial infrastructure initiative (BRI) has been expanding globally. Read More.

From his position of complete feebleness, Joe Biden on Thursday warned: “Every indication that we have is that they (Russia) are preparing to go into Ukraine, attack Ukraine. My sense is that it will happen within the next several days.” Read More.