... spontaneous reaction to the reduction of its own potential and the apparent lack of opportunities (resources and ideas) to restore it. The most destructive behaviour is shown by those forces that act as a kind of proxy for the US or Europe: Israel, Turkey and puppet regimes like Kiev. Each of them, to the best of their ability, is betting on creating a permanent conflict within their own survival zone.
Other countries throughout the world are exhibiting more restraint and are only responding to ...
..., Iran, and other regional powers give it leverage that the West has squandered through arrogance and partisanship.
By standing with Palestine diplomatically, maintaining ties with Lebanon and Iran, and engaging pragmatically with Gulf countries and Turkey, Russia offers an alternative center of gravity. Unlike Washington’s “one-sided” role, Moscow presents itself as a balancer — ready to mediate, restrain escalation, and counter attempts to redraw the map of the Middle East under the guise ...
... hostile, poses a direct existential threat to the US.
In fact, this is precisely why serious observers have always answered “no” to the question “Would Americans sacrifice New York to save Paris?”
Even the presence of US troops in Europe or Turkey cannot be seen as a guarantee that Americans will consider the survival of these allies to be their own. The US’s junior partners in the Far East – Japan and South Korea – have found themselves in an equally difficult situation. We know, ...
The primary objective of "Kurdish-Turkish reconciliation" is Turkish foreign policy
Upon reaching an agreement with the Turkish state, Turkey has taken the first definitive step towards executing the “
Terror-Free Turkey
” plan, which seeks to find a legal and constitutional approach for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to disband and lay down its arsenal. Last October, PKK leader ...
Turkey's New Strategy in the Region: Oil, Security and International Routes
The agreement that Turkey signed with Iraq on August 17, 1973, to ship Iraqi (Kurdish) Kirkuk oil to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean for export was terminated ...
... surroundings. It is difficult to say now how long the conflict between Israel and its neighbours will last and what new forms it will take. But there is little doubt that, thanks to this, the entire Middle East will remain a restless part of Greater Eurasia. Turkey's foreign policy, which sometimes takes on an adventuristic character, will also remain less predictable than we would like.
Second, inpidual countries, such as Azerbaijan or Kazakhstan, may face the problem of instability in the global energy ...
... Iran represents a sensitive variable in Tehran’s internal calculations, given their numbers and social influence.
Yet, political divergence has consistently surfaced. Azerbaijan’s secular, nationalist orientation, closely aligned with the West and Turkey, contrasts sharply with Iran’s religious governance model and its anti-Western stance. As tensions between Iran and Israel escalated, Tehran grew increasingly wary of Baku’s deepening ties with Tel Aviv, particularly in the defense and intelligence ...
... Simultaneously, the enemy’s communication and logistical infrastructure was damaged, indicating Iran’s focus on disrupting command and control capabilities.
At the same time, the diplomatic front was also active; countries such as Russia, China, and Turkey began efforts to contain the crisis, but talks were halted in the first half of the conflict due to the intensity of the attacks.
Towards the end of the conflict, a ceasefire agreement was reached through the mediation of several powers—although ...
... However, using the terminology of Johan Galtung, a “positive” peace is still far away: there is strong tension between Serbia and unrecognised Kosovo, the internal political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina is deepening, relations between Greece and Turkey are also far from being fully normalised, and “memory wars” are developing between Serbia and Croatia, as well as Serbs and Muslims in Bosnia. How can a Eurasian approach to security resolve these “knots” of conflict?
The Kosovo case is ...
... contracts it linked with US companies, has enormous economic implications.
Despite
pressure
from the US President Donald Trump administration, the court challenge is the most recent barrier to the restart of oil pipeline shipments through Iraq and Turkey, which have
stopped
since March 2023. Baghdad declared the agreements void, claiming that direct interaction between US companies and the Kurdistan regional government without the involvement of the federal government is against the constitution....
