geostrategy

How the Russian David Can Finally Defeat the U.S.-NATO Goliath

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) When the Soviet Union broke up, and ended its Warsaw Pact military alliance, and ended its communism — all of which happened in 1991 — there was a very clearly understood verbal agreement that the U.S. and its NATO military alliance against the Soviet Union made to the Soviet leaders, […]

How and Why the Taliban Won

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture The prominent philosopher Slavoj Zizek stated the question well at RT, on August 17th: The Taliban’s 80,000 troops have retaken Afghanistan with cities falling like dominos while the 300,000-strong government forces, better equipped and trained, mostly melted and surrendered with no will to fight. Why did it happen? […]

Another Sign of Turkey Turning Away from U.S.

Eric Zuesse
On November 6th, Ibrahim Karagül, who is an extremely influential Turkish media baron and newspaper columnist, and is considered to be a mouthpiece for Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s boldest positions in international relations, virtually declared war against the U.S. and its main allies in the Middle East, and called them promoters of terrorism.