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• China‘s Silence on Gaza is Strategic | Zhang Sheng

  Dr. Maria Kicha argues that Russia’s ties to West Asia are shaped by historical legacies, pragmatic state interests, and current strategic constraints. Drawing on Soviet-era alignments—initial support for early Zionists, later backing of Arab republics, and a fraught history with Iran—she shows how

• Moscow Meeting Shock: USA Abandons Europe & Ukraine | Ray MacGovern & Larry Johnson

  Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson interpret the recent five‑hour U.S. delegation meeting with Vladimir Putin as an early, informal stage in a potential negotiated settlement over Ukraine, driven more by pragmatic bargaining than structured diplomacy. Both stress the unusual composition of the U.S. team

• US Trying To Fool Europe: New National Security Strategy Changes NOTHING

  Pascal contends that the new U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) is rhetorical window‑dressing rather than a genuine strategic shift. While the NSS rhetorically rejects “permanent American domination” and criticizes allies for free‑riding, Pascal argues it is a product of a small White House circl

• USA In Shock: Russia Just Won BIG In Asia | Dr. Anuradha Chenoy

  Professor Anuradha Chenoy contends that Vladimir Putin’s state visit to India crystallizes a deeper, long‑term Russia–India partnership shaped by mutual economic need, strategic autonomy, and multipolar ambitions. Chenoy highlights how India’s discounted Russian oil purchases and Russia’s acceptance

• USA Rules Ukraine Through Anticorruption Agency | Prof. Ivan Katchanovski

  Professor Ivan Katchanovski argues that recent high‑level corruption prosecutions by Ukraine’s National Anti‑Corruption Bureau (NABU) are entwined with U.S. influence and the geopolitics of a proposed Trump peace plan. He contends NABU, created after the 2014 Maidan with substantial Western involvem

• Russophobia Was Always The Goal | Former GDR State Secretary Dr. Petra Erler

  Petra Erler contends that Western discourse on Russia is shaped by ignorance, triumphalism, and selective history, which preclude genuine understanding of Russian security concerns. Drawing on her experience during German reunification, she argues that Western actors often assumed superior knowledge

• German Militarism Is Back | Fabian Scheidler

  Fabian Scheidler contends that Europe—particularly Germany—is undergoing unprecedented militarization, driven by a post‑2022 propaganda surge that frames Russia as an existential enemy and normalizes vast defense spending. He links this shift to the decline of détente traditions within social democr

• Israel‘s Zionist Self-Destruction | Y. Rabkin, M. Ramos & J. Sachs

  At the heart of the panel is a sustained critique of Zionism as a political project whose colonial, exclusionary, and often messianic logic now threatens both Palestinians and the future of Israel itself. Yakov Rabkin emphasizes Zionism’s secular, nationalist origins in late‑19th‑century European et

• Yugoslav Collapse and NATO‘s Precedent for Violent Border Changes | Dr. Sandra Davidović

  At the heart of the exchange, Dr. Sandra Davidović situates Kosovo as a protracted territorial dispute between competing national projects—Serb and Albanian—rather than an anomalous sui generis case. Tracing the conflict from incorporation into Serbia (1913) through Yugoslavia’s postwar decentraliza

• The West‘s 100-Year War To Destroy Russia | Michael J. Carley

  At the heart of the exchange, Dr. Michael Jabara Carley argues that Soviet foreign policy was shaped primarily by security concerns and continuity with pre‑Soviet Russian strategic culture, not by an inherent drive for global expansion. Drawing on archival evidence, he shows how debates in the 1920s

• Russia’s Long-Game Strategy | Stas Krapivnik

  Stas Krapivnik contends that recent shifts in the Ukraine war reflect a strategic Russian advantage and a Western inflection point. Drawing on field visits to Donetsk and Avdiivka, he describes substantial territorial gains, extensive urban destruction, and civilian suffering amid contested narrativ

• The NATO Effect: Erasing Anti-War Voices in Finland | Armando Mema

  Armando Mema contends that Finland’s largest public broadcaster has smeared him as an agent of Russian “hybrid warfare” after his protest against EU President Ursula von der Leyen, a charge he says lacks evidence and omits the ongoing court proceedings over his arrest. He and the host argue this epi

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