Russian president Vladimir Putin opened the door to renewed Middle East peace talks in Moscow in the near future according to the Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi. “Putin has told me that he is ready to receive [Abbas] and Netanyahu in Moscow to carry out direct talks to find a solution,”…
With the multi-year reductions in the U.S. military budget and the refusal of much of the NATO alliance to contribute the agreed upon percentage of GDP for their own defense, NATO finds itself pathetically unable to handle two geopolitical situations at the same time. Russia has been aggressively probing NATO…
The Russian recognized, separatist region of Georgia, known as South Ossetia, celebrated its 8th year of independence from Georgia this week on Aug 26th. The region had been contested since the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s and a second war was fought, this time between Georgia…