Geopolitics… Russia and Iran’s Clashing Visions for Syria’s Future 18 Apr 202030 Nov 2020 Posted originally to MintPress News on 7 February 2020 as part of a 3-Part series on the evolved geopolitical scenario in Syria. Rivals of the West in their own right,…
Geopolitics… Wealthy Gulf States Plan to Spend Big to Coax Syria Away from Iran 18 Apr 202029 Jun 2020 Posted originally to MintPress News on 31 January 2020 as Part 1 of a 3-Part Series on the evolved geopolitical scenario in Syria. Since the dawn of the 2011 Syrian…
Geopolitics… Emerging Turko-Israeli Rift Helps Turkey-Iran Entente 23 Jan 202027 Jan 2020 Posted originally to Islamabad Policy Institute on 23 January 2020. Israel has long possessed a capacity to force, whether by design or by consequence, the upending of regional alignment dynamics…
Geopolitics… The falsehood that is the ‘Persian-Arab conflict’ narrative 2 Nov 201918 Nov 2019 Posted originally to The Express Tribune Blogs on 2 November 2019. Discredited and archaic explanatory frameworks are superposed onto geopolitical conflicts and rivalries at the expense of accurate appraisal of…
Geopolitics… Netanyahu’s Election Loss: Reasons and Regional Consequences 22 Oct 201925 Oct 2019 Posted originally as an issue brief to Islamabad Policy Institute on 19 September 2019. Benjamin Netanyahu’s 10-year continuous stint at Israeli Prime Minister is coming to an end, with his…
Geopolitics… Putin’s ‘doubts’ on Iran’s alertness on ISIS: A reminder of Russia’s true alignment 13 Oct 201925 Oct 2019 Posted originally to One World on 13 October 2019. Hesitancy persists among many in the media regarding owning up to just how radically different in some aspects geopolitical alliances in…
Geopolitics… Iran’s Israel-GCC-Russia Conundrum 6 Oct 201925 Oct 2019 Israel-GCC-Russia vs Iran; resharing my January 2019 article for Regional Rapport where I predict some strategic changes within the very structure of the Syrian state Israel will through the GCC…
Afghanistan… Putting Pakistan’s ‘Israel Question’ into geostrategic context 18 Sep 20193 Apr 2020 Published originally by the Islamabad Policy Institute on 18 September 2019. Informed discourse on Israel, the Middle East and current geopolitical affairs pertaining to Israel is not stimulating the current…
Geopolitics… Russia’s special credentials as Israel’s ‘Deal of the Century’ backer 29 Jul 201925 Oct 2019 Posted originally to Surkhiyan.pk on 29 July 2019. Russia’s facilitation of a still-aggressive Israel in preference over ‘allies’ Iran and Syria has become gradually more visible and acknowledged in the…
Hindutva and fascism… The Pakistan-India info-war and the Israeli X Factor 12 Jul 201925 Oct 2019 Posted originally to Regional Rapport on 12 July 2019. Regardless of how weak India’s media propaganda might be, Pakistan still has much to do in gaining the upper hand against…
