The Iran Conundrum

The EU oil embargo recently slapped on Iran and the threats voiced by the US and other Western countries to come up with further sanctions against the country led watchers to conclude that an armed conflict between Iran and the West finally became imminent. The first potential scenario in the context is that the current […]

Russia and the BRICS square off with the Pentagon and NATO

Moscow has known for years where the Pentagon wants to tread: Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania. And NATO’s dream is … to turn the Mediterranean into a NATO lake. Few may have noticed when a US State Department spokeswoman cryptically announced that Washington “would cease carrying out certain obligations under the Conventional Armed Forces […]