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  • The end of Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh

    There is no such thing as the innocent in the language of an aggressor, we have seen it in Syria, where hundreds of thousands have died, but the reality is that the world has turned its back on these forever conflicts and forgotten the innocent. Nagorno Karabakh has the unenviable history of a state in…

  • Azawad in the making?

    There has been much hype of Russia’s move into Africa, but the reality is that African nations mainly rely on Western and Chinese trade and investments. Countries such as Mali and Burkina Faso need Russian weapons, but the rest of the country requires aid and rational arguments put forward to find agreement when neither side…

  • Putin is likely to retain power, “but”

    There is a joke about time zones that ends with Putin complaining that he had commiserated with Prigozhin’s family before the plane had taken off. It is a great joke, which was told by the Prime Minister of Albania. But the element of truth is hard to miss, it is widely recognised that Prigozhin was…

  • Xi’s G20 excuses

    Xi Jinping has disappeared and he is not going to India for the G20 next week. Is there more intrigue or is it a matter of tension between India and China that excuses him from the summit. But like everything in China, you just do not know what the truth is, just a matter of…

  • Is Libya going to find peace

    Can Libya ever unite in peace again seems to be a thorny issue among those that question the countries instability. It has been twelve years since the overthrow of Ghadaffi, but there is an impasse that has been magnified by the country being split in two by two opposing governments. The politics of the east…

  • Russia – Part two

    Russia is moving from the argument of a Special Police operation towards a state that imposes broad security measures against its citizens. Though there is support for the war in Ukraine, opinion polls show that the majority of Russian’s not only support the war but also Putin and the government. Reactionary elements of the state…