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Jul 04 2025 
A storm in a teacup or no more ‘Chinese tea’ for Europe?
A storm in a teacup is raging after Mr Wang Yi’s visit to Europe. Wang Yi visited various European officials including German Foreign Minister Wadephul in Berlin, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot and French Foreign Minister Jean-Nolé Barro.
This post deals with his 4-hour meeting with the ‘brilliant’ Kaya Callas and other… Continue reading
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Mar 14 2025 
Putin peels off the Masks of the Ceasefire Kabuki
Putin will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The “ceasefire” announced with trademark bombast by Team Trump 2.0 should be seen as a tawdry kabuki inside a cheap matryoshka.
As we peel off the successive masks,… Continue reading
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Mar 02 2025 
From Donbass to South Lebanon, and All Across BRICS, It’s All About Resistance
… the absolutely key imperative remains the Forever Wars chapter in Ukraine – whose resolution (or not) will deeply affect geopolitics for the rest of the century
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
For those who keep track of the slings and arrows crossing the broader geopolitical chessboard non-stop, it’s an immensely powerful – and humbling – experience… Continue reading -
Feb 19 2025 
Let the New Great Game begin
This was never meant to be Yalta. Although Yalta 2.0 may eventually happen.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
This was never meant to be Yalta. Although Yalta 2.0 may eventually happen. On the Victory Day parade in Moscow next May 9, celebrating 80 years of the end of the Great Patriotic War and the… Continue reading
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Feb 16 2025 
Spring is in the air …
… in US-Russia ties as Trump’s revolution gains momentum
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
What emerges from the dramatic happenings of the past week is that the 3-year chronicle of US-Russia rivalry and the NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine was a crisis engineered with great deliberation by the Anglo-American nexus per a pernicious agenda… Continue reading
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Dec 13 2024 
Syria: Mr Lavrov is not giving up on the diplomatic track
Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan
On December 12, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.Following up on the most recent Russia-Arab states contacts at various… Continue reading
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Oct 28 2024 
BRICS Make History – Can They Keep the Momentum?
The Kazan Declaration is no less than a detailed diplomatic manifesto to propose real reform, moving in practice towards in-depth institutional changes and to reject Hegemony, in particular the post-WW2 Anglo-American levers of global control.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
The not so simple twists of fate always allow certain cities to make their mark in History… Continue reading -
Aug 22 2024 
Iran will hit Israel, ball is in US-Israeli court
There is a Zen proverb — ‘If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.’ The bottom line is that Iran will not submit to western diktat. Iran’s sovereignty was violated and its response will be strong and decisive. The Iranian statement from the UN podium in New York is a message addressed… Continue reading
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Jul 10 2024 
The Big Picture behind Viktor The Mediator’s peace shuttle
The Big Picture remains: the future of the “rules-based international order” is being decided in the black soil of Novorossiya.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Viktor Orban is on a roll.
And that has set out a riotous roller coaster.
Everyone has been gripped by the extraordinary spectacle of pre-historic specimens wallowing in the Western geopolitical swamp… Continue reading
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Mar 15 2024 
Will BRICS launch a new world in 2024?
Ryabkov, Ushakov and Glazyev foresee a quickening of the Russian river after Putin’s spring reelection: the BRICS will create payment and settlement systems that do not depend upon the shifty “rules-based international order.”
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
“BRICS doubled its membership at the start of 2024, and faces huge tasks ahead: integrating its newest members,… Continue reading -
Mar 03 2024 
Can China arrest the drive to Armageddon?
China resumes shuttle diplomacy as Ukraine war drums get louder… in this foreboding backdrop, what is it that Li Hui can hope to achieve?
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry announcement on Wednesday that Beijing’s Special Representative on Eurasian Affairs Li Hui will set out from home on March 2 on… Continue reading
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Apr 27 2023 
Valdai Club: Modern Diplomacy and the New World Order
Are the general diplomatic manoeuvres simply part of the military activity that is growing on a global scale, or are they replacing the “big” negotiations about a new world order, about which theorists could dream of? It can be assumed that both are being done at the same time — to the particular chagrin of… Continue reading
