(2025-07-20). Breaking The Ranks: Russia Legitimizes Its Former Foes — OpEd. api.follow.it Afghanistan's Taliban government announced late earlier this month that Russia has become the inaugural country to officially recognize their government— the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), a unique clerical dictatorship of its kind. | This mark a significant moment for the Taliban regime who were not formally recognized by a single nation, since toppling the US-backed republic in 2021. Their foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi called it a "courageous step" and hoped others will follow. Moscow said it would continue to support Kabul in security, counter-terrorism and combat against drug crime. | In Ap…
(2025-07-20). Russia's Grip Weakens In The South Caucasus, Opening Doors To New Players — Analysis. api.follow.it 
(2025-07-20). Ignorance and Military Fantasy: General Donahue's Proposed U.S-NATO Blitzkrieg Assault on Russia's Kaliningrad Enclave. A Miscalculation Could Lead to a Thermonuclear Catastrophy. Drago Bosnic. globalresearch.ca It appears that threatening thermonuclear superpowers has become a favorite pastime in the halls of power in Washington DC. | Just days after Lindsey Graham
(2025-07-20). KPRF's Repudiation Of Khrushchev's Denunciation Of Stalin Shows Putin Set To Be Even More Repressive And Aggressive — OpEd. api.follow.it 
With its "unerring intuition," the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has declared Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin "a mistake," thus putting itself in line with Vladimir Putin's current thinking and opening the way for the Kremlin leader to be even more repressive at home and aggressive abroad, Andrey Arkhangelsky says. | The Russian writer says that the KPRF's action reflects the evolution of Putin's thinking. Earlier, the Kremlin leader like his post-Stalin Soviet predecessors said he wanted to take the best from all eras of the Russian past; but now, he has narrowed the past from which he will s…