"China and Iran just inked a 25-year, game-changing strategic deal covering everything from oil sales, contract bids and massive upgrades to Iran’s anti-air capabilities as well as its domestic air force."
"... we have a good idea of how the breakdown began – with Barack Obama’s belief that money would buy peace."
"... The illusion that the state may disappear from world politics, giving way to trans-boundary supranational entities, has finally been dispelled."
"A breakaway faction ... wants independence for the South and to end the five-year war with the Saudis. But this might start an entirely new war in Yemen."
"With coronavirus now clouding the picture, governments around the world have neither payed attention, nor devoted enough resources to prevent a possible IS surge."
"Sudan was downgraded following the overthrow of the Islamist regime of Omar al-Bashir ..."
"If you are exhausted from the drumbeat of doom and gloom surrounding the Corona virus pandemic, here is a welcome diversion ..."
"The EU is now obviously collapsing before our eyes while the United States teeters on the Tipping Point of total disintegration."
"So, in contrast to the bitter words between the U.S. and China over COVID-19 and the growing propaganda operations by both governments, we have a pivotal phone call between Trump and Putin which seems very well timed."
"Russia’s cure to the rapid spread of COVID-19"
"So despite Serbian optimism nation-state recognition is very much on the side of small breakaway states ... and even if support for Kosovo continues to erode nothing will ultimately change until Washington changes its mind."
"The Achilles’ heel of the U.S. empire is the debt."
"The proof is in and it is irrefutable. The Russian Government has the greatest advertising and social media interference capability in the world. ... the Russians spent less than $400,000 to get Donald Trump elected."