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Oct 08 2025 
Apocalypse in Gulf is now or never
Viewed as a global strategy, Russia is performing a balancing act here, intently testing the US-imposed ‘rules-based system’ in West Asia. By boosting military ties with Iran, Russia underscores that the post-World War international order defined by a ‘rules-based system’ has become an aberration..
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Deccan Herald.
An uneasy calm has settled… Continue reading
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May 31 2025 
The Jig is Up
America’s military humiliation: the Houthis exposed its waning power.
By Malcom Kyeyune at UnHerd.
When, in reaction to the war in Gaza, the Houthis of Yemen started imposing their blockade on the Red Sea, it was seen as a sure sign of waning American power: a global hegemon was allowing its control over a vital sea route… Continue reading
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May 30 2025 
When East and West can’t meet: Between Leviathan, Behemoth and Mandala
The first ever ASEAN-China-GCC trilateral summit was a de facto celebration of the New Silk Road spirit.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The first ever ASEAN-China-GCC trilateral summit earlier this week in Malaysia – with 17 Global South nations at the table – was a de facto celebration of the New Silk Road spirit.
Malaysian Prime… Continue reading
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Nov 27 2024 
Trump may be Oreshniked on Ukraine even before he gets to China
With Oreshnik now entering the picture, everywhere the Hegemon will try to harass China they will also have to face Russia.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
When it comes to state of the art Russian weaponry, what the inestimable Ray McGovern defines as the MICIMATT – the whole Hegemonic complex – seems to dwell in perpetual stupor.
They… Continue reading
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Aug 20 2024 
The Empire Strikes Back: Color Revolutions in South and Southeast Asia
The unipolar moment being progressively erased across Eurasia implies a frantic Empire counter-reaction of multiplying the color revolution front. Let’s focus here on South and Southeast Asia.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
Last week Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Myanmar and Thailand on two different missions.
In Myanmar, the mission was another mediating effort concerning the intractable… Continue reading
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Aug 02 2024 
Thalassocracy were afraid of the St. Petersburg Parade
Russia was able to return to the concept of cheap deterrence of the thalassocracy with the limited use of its own fleet and the use of the potential of strong allies at sea.
By Rostislav Ishchenko
(machine translation)
“Rule Britain by the Waves” is not just a popular song and once an unofficial anthem of a power… Continue reading
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Apr 23 2024 
Hezbollah wades in
Garland Nixon interviews Laith Marouf — Tuesday’s West Asia update.
Israel (and the combined West) can’t go left.🔹️Iran’s exposure of western air defenses was exploited by Lebanese Hezbollah in the last 48 hours. Send swarms of drones to saturate ADs, followed by the pinpoint kamikaze drones/missiles..
🔹️Zionists have switched from direct Iran confrontation (for now) to the… Continue reading -
Mar 22 2024 
Yemen’s Indian Ocean Checkmate
Ansarallah has single-handedly disrupted global shipping power dynamics. Yemen is launching attacks against Israeli-linked vessels deep into the Indian Ocean to cut off the last waterway route to the occupation state.
By Khalil Harb at The Cradle.
Our people are ready to send hundreds of thousands of mujahideen to Palestine. Okay, geography might pose a problem. It… Continue reading -
Mar 19 2024 
Yemen Ends Thalassocratic Rule
Garland Nixon interviews Laith Marouf — West Asia update: Yemen and the beginning of the end of imperial naval force projection;
wide ranging talk includes:
🔸Zionist attempt to break the Syrian landbridge to Hezbollah again (after ISIS a decade ago);
🔸the Vichy regime of the Palestinian Authority;
🔸Prof Ali Kadri: the role of directed Genocide in western Capitalism; for… Continue reading -
Mar 17 2024 
WHAT?! Yemen Just Closed the Indian Ocean to USUK Ships too
“… and all linked to zionists…”
Richard connects a terrible dot on the back of my mind! Yemen didn’t merely extend the Gauntlet to the Indian Ocean for the zionists, but to the same western parties they currently fight in the Red Sea. They closed the South Africa route to USUK and those of the combined… Continue reading
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Mar 14 2024 
Yemen consolidates around Ansar Allah (Houthis)
In Yemen, The Squabbling Tribes — ancient vehicle used by Empires to divide and rule — have been harnessed by Ansar Allah into the unbreakable internal front; the rock upon which shatters the thalassocratic West.
By Saqr Abo Hasan at The Cradle.
In Yemen, tribes hold the keys to power
Yemen’s many tribes are key powerbrokers in the… Continue reading
