Asia
Iraq: Blowback Blackwater-Style
When we think about the term "blowback," we think of the rogues gallery of foreign mercenary forces the United States has created or exploited over the decades who invariably end up turning on their creators. The most prominent among these is Al Qaeda who...
Korea’s role in the regional political games
The venerable public’s attention is drawn today to that part of the global political circus which features clowns in the form of cartoonish “Caliphates” and “Euro Maidans”. Their increasingly bloody acts hide the main event where the leading political...
Iraq: a Bloody Fate and the Future
Special Russian Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Bogdanov has recently stated, “Moscow does not exclude the possibility of the creation of an independent Kurdistan and other new nations in the Middle East...