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The US military presence in Afghanistan and Central Asia bears an increasingly corrosive effect on wider Eurasian stability... At the moment virtually every small country in Eurasia, from Kazakhstan to Georgia, is more of a pawn than of a player on the chessboard of global politics and has to adapt to the strategies pursued by more powerful trendsetters. It must be bluntly taken into account that only two countries – Russia and China – can be regarded as such in the post-Soviet Central Asia.
Alexander KNYAZEV | 13.03.2012 |
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The US-Pakistan relationship steadily going for the worse is an issue that hits the radar screen of world media outlets... The Shamsi Air Base incident exacerbated the situation to the boiling point... Pakistan has vowed to close permanently the U.S.-NATO logistics routes through which a major part of supplies needed for the Afghanistan war effort must be transported... The deployment of air-defense systems along the border with Afghanistan to counter US air strikes is an intention declared... The USA responded by withholding about $800 million in aid to Pakistan's armed forces... What now?.. Russia has threatened to cut off the NATO supply routes to Afghanistan if there is no deal on the missile defense in Europe...
Andrei AKULOV | 19.12.2011 |
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Israel’s all-powerful lobby in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an organization composed of Israeli collaborators, infiltrators, and outright traitors to the United States, is steamrolling through the House of Representatives H.R. 1905, which would prohibit the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, members of the U.S. Foreign Service, or any special envoy from engaging in any sort of diplomatic contact, official or unofficial, with any member or agent of the government of Iran... Israel’s strategy is to make certain that its plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and, perhaps other targets, meet no opposition from diplomatic circles in the United States...
Wayne MADSEN | 10.11.2011 |
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...Indeed, Pakistan needs to focus single-mindedly on finessing its standoff with the US and also grapple with the existential questions of the Afghan endgame – Durand Line, Pashtunistan issue, ‘Talibanization’ of the afpak region – rather than get sidetracked in a skirmish with India in the Hindu Kush... In sum, the geopolitics of the region cast their shadow on India-Pakistan relationship as much as their bilateral disputes and differences. How to break this vicious circle?.. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization [SCO] is uniquely placed to play such a role in regional security...
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 08.11.2011 |
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On international issues the most notable point in the SCO declaration was the assertion that “The unilateral and unlimited build-up of missile defence by a single state or by a narrow group of states could damage strategic stability and international security.”... The emphasis on “unilateral” and “unlimited” suggested that Russia and China along with their SCO partners wanted to keep alive the prospect of the cooperative construction of a defence shield which would then ensure that the nuclear deterrent of the two countries vis-à-vis the United States remained intact...
Najmuddin A. SHAIKH | 26.06.2011 |
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The United States President Barack Obama’s drawdown speech will not stand out in the volume of his selected works as an outstanding piece of oratory. The rhetorical flourish of “On the Way Forward in Afghanistan” was definitely below par. On the other hand, Obama knew the occasion is not one of celebration but of having to give a sober, convincing justification for what has got to be done about something that went horribly wrong
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 23.06.2011 |
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...Can international community play a meaning role in the post-NATO Taliban? It will depend on how the regional and international powers formulate their policies while respecting mutual differences. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has taken a positive approach to the scenario and has declared its intention to help develop ‘a peaceful, stable and developing state’ in Afghanistan...
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA | 18.06.2011 |
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On June 15 th the Shanghai Cooperation organisation will have its Summit meeting in Astana marking the 10 th Anniversary of its founding... It is of course undeniable that in so far as the countries of the region are concerned the focus of attention will be on what the Summit chooses to do with regard to the question of expanding membership to the three states now enjoying “observer status” - Pakistan, India and Iran - and about granting observer status or more to Afghanistan…
Najmuddin A. SHAIKH | 13.06.2011 |
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Awareness is growing among Afghans that Russia has long turned the page on its Soviet-era campaign in Afghanistan and has nothing to do with the hostilities underway in the country. At the moment, Russia should stage a comeback in Afghanistan, but certainly not as a military power. Rather, Russian businessmen and engineers should lend Afghans a hand in bringing back to life the old Soviet-built economic infrastructures and in creating new ones...
Nikolai KOZYREV | 27.12.2010 |
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