... completely dismantled. Azerbaijan became the second state after Russia to integrate the secessionist territory, although the mode of how Karabakh and Chechnya got incorporated significantly
differ
.
The change in the status quo also contributed to Iran’s notable invigoration. Two Eurasian giants, China and India, have also adopted a higher profile in the Caucasus. With the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, the U.S., the EU (and France in particular) along with NATO shifted from “competitive cooperation” with ...
...
interest
in doing so.
Andrey Kortunov:
Meeting Security Challenges in the Gulf: Ideal Solutions and Practical Steps
Israel’s Middle East security ‘solution’ and China’s quest for stability
While the previously mentioned factors place Israel atop Iran in China’s evolving BRI-centric Middle East outlook, it is Beijing’s economy-and-stability first approach which may lead to it tacitly approving of Israel’s method of dealing with Iran. This method involves both overt and covert, or asymmetrical, attacks against regional ...
... to an overbearing Washington, in multiple sub-regional areas, from the AFPAK theatre to the Middle Eastern vector. The Russia-China axis constitutes a significant pillar, alternatively framing and shaping the potential contours of a futuristic Afghanistan, and in concert with Pakistan, which can bring certainly material, if not game-changing influence to bear, on ultimate transpiring. Hence, it’s a no-brainer that Modi’s ... ... in the face of deepening ties with Washington. Russia was no less central to ironing out the creases that led to the P5+1 — Iran arrangement of the JCPOA, in that it had a protagonist-cum-superintendence role to dispose of, in the accord’s sequential ...
