The Globalist

Poor countries bear a disproportionate brunt of Putin’s war. But the fundamental reshaping of energy policies also offers seeds of hope for Africa.

Turkey’s strongman leader has expressed support for the besieged country. He has also joined Putin’s assault on the Western media.

India’s engagement with Central Asia provides opportunities for the U.S. to step up cooperation with the region. But the Ukraine invasion places hurdles in Delhi’s balancing act between Moscow and Washington.

Turkey, Israel and Syria have been playing a complex tightrope act balancing their international ties and commitments, while keeping a wary eye on Russia’s imperialistic designs.

What kind of Russian occupation – as in Afghanistan? Iraq? Abkhazia? Chechnya? Imagining the day after a Russian conquest of Kyiv is not a pretty picture – also not for Vladimir Putin.

China’s goal isn’t cuddling up to Russia. It is preventing NATO from interfering in the Indo-Pacific.

Putin’s post-Soviet world remains a work in progress, but Africa already looms.

Are regional organizations, ASEAN and the AU, taking adequate responsibility to resolve conflicts?

Former Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev may be the last barricade blocking a confrontation between Russia and Kazakstan.

How the closure of the Memorial in Russia is a template for the kind of society Republicans want to build in the U.S.