Emerging Risks

archived 8 Mar 2022 05:22:47 UTC

Vladimir Putin has “miscalculated” the Ukrainian people's “will to fight,” author and Russian-born US intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler says as she breaks down the president’s “masterplan”. “With Putin being a former KGB officer, this is an intelligence failure,” she told Sky News Australia. “But, overall, he did not miscalculate in terms of the west response. “He has been studying, and his military and his intelligence services, they have been studying the way that the west, the US and NATO, conduct wars. “He feels very, very confident that he is going to achieve his strategic goals which is the reversal of the outcome of the Cold War.” Ms Koffler said the Russian president’s next step would be to resubjugate “every single post-Soviet state beyond Ukraine” and pointed to Moldova, Belarus, Georgia. “Only the Baltics are safe at this point by virtue of them being NATO members,” she said. “This is his end game, and these are his next steps.”

A story of a train project illustrates the rot that inevitably develops behind a charismatic leader’s cult of personality.

Putin has led Russia into uncharted territory, and history suggests that his rule of repression and isolation is unsustainable.

China may be able to conquer Taiwan, but if it is anything like Russia's disaster in Ukraine, the costs will be a lot higher than the rewards.

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In Facebook post, defense minister vows Israel will act against Tehran politically, economically, and militarily, 'whether or not' an agreement is signed

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Putin has strong incentives to prosecute the war, even as Ukraine evolves into a major, unanticipated proxy war with the West.

“Everything that’s not propaganda is being eliminated,” a Nobel Prize winning editor said as Russian authorities moved to control the narrative in the Ukraine war.

Banks and Russian oligarchs grapple with consequences of sanctions that have frozen billions of francs in Swiss bank vaults.

The Russian president is believed to have sent his close family to his bunker in Siberia, located in the district of Ongudaysky, close to the borders of Russia with Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan. That will provide a safe haven for Putin's closest relatives should a nuclear attack hit Russia.

Poland wants to donate its old MiGs to Ukraine. But there’s a catch — it needs U.S. jets.

Russian-issued cards will no longer work in other countries, and purchases from Russian vendors by cardholders in other countries will be cut off.

The state’s media said "London has made a final choice of open confrontation with Russia."

Russia believes that countries providing aid to Ukraine are committing acts of war . So too are countries sanctioning Russia. These countries will held accountable by Russia.

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Russia is now engaged in a war it cannot win. No matter how events play out on the battlefield, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a strategic disaster for Russia.

More than a week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Air Force has yet to commence large-scale operations. Inactivity in the first few days could be ascribed to various factors, but the continued absence of major air operations now raises serious capability questions.

The type of hantavirus is less severe than the one that usually spreads in the Americas.

Agreement releasing billions of petrodollars may come on Monday

archived 4 Mar 2022 17:19:03 UTC

Taiwan, Xi Jinping, and America’s year of danger

The economic burden of the West’s penalties against Russia will grow worse over time.