February 15, 2023 marks 34 years since the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in 1989. The exodus of the Limited contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan, which successfully completed the combat tasks of its ten-year mission of military presence in the Muslim country of the mountains, became the forerunner of a geopolitical catastrophe - the collapse of the Soviet Union, which followed in 1991. Military success turned into a geopolitical defeat.

30-01-2023 admin 7343 0

The year 2022 is nearing completion. Complex, formidable, dramatic. The year is on the threshold of a new era, which has already been marked by cardinal changes in everything - from the alignment of global "centers of power" to the daily way of life of many people. The inevitable transformation awaits the majority of international institutions that have been created over many decades. They are pretty decrepit and do not fulfill their tasks. Some of them have become purely decorative, others are trying to preserve their former influence, however, not very successfully. Some are just being formed…

26-12-2022 admin 39327 0

Literally in recent days, two significant events have occurred: The British Interior Ministry allowed the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, and Telegram introduced a paid subscription. How are these events related and what are they talking about? This shows that the golden age of web 2.0 as a space of freedom is naturally coming to an end. On the one hand, the state is leading the offensive: Julian Assange created his own Wikipedia, Wikileaks, a resource that was dedicated to the main value of freedom of speech — the ability of people to expose the abuses of the powerful: states and corporations. As a result, for such revelations, he found himself persecuted by the most powerful state on earth — the United States. American prosecutors have not forgiven him for helping Chelsea Manning in leaking data on war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

12-12-2022 admin 51693 0

Money and new opportunities have attracted talents to semiconductor manufacturing in China. But the impending cold war in technology is changing a lot.

08-12-2022 admin 55268 0

In anticipation of the inevitable explosion of American and global debt, as well as the collapse of assets, Egon von Greyerz considers the catastrophic consequences for the world.

08-12-2022 admin 55585 0

Private military companies have become real armies in our time. In the most different parts of the planet, they sometimes play a colossal role — where the use of a regular army is undesirable. And Russia is no exception. But any army — even a private one — needs private intelligence (CRK). Intelligence is the eyes and ears of units. And also the brain. The Americans and their auxiliary apparatus in Ukraine have such brains. What about us?

05-12-2022 admin 57831 0

The Middle East, for a number of reasons, is replete with nuances of politics. Often, the complication of intra-state and regional contradictions is facilitated by the intervention of external forces, which, as experience shows, can sharply exacerbate them. All conflicts and contradictions in this region are of a multi-level nature. There are serious contradictions in the States themselves.

01-12-2022 admin 63908 0

During the Anniversary X annual meeting of the International Expert Council for Cooperation in the Arctic (IECCA), dedicated to international cooperation in the Arctic in the new geopolitical conditions at the section "Hybrid security threats in the Arctic" with a report on: "The program for the creation of the BRICS intercontinental heavy amphibious ekranoplane, a promising family of ekranoplanes and other smaller vehicles for accelerated transportation of cargo and passengers on the route Rotterdam-Murmansk-Vladivostok-Mumbai-Cape Town- Buenos Aires" was made by Vice-President of the All-Russian Association of Aerospace, Marine, Extreme and Environmental Medicine, expert of the Center for Strategic Assessments and Forecasts of the project "Marine Policy" Yuri Tarasov. Here are the main theses of his report.

28-11-2022 admin 60133 0

The conflict in Afghanistan has become the longest-running US military company, for which more than one trillion dollars was allocated and cost the lives of approximately 2,461 American servicemen.

22-11-2022 admin 64302 0

Although constructively "Shahids" can be called "simple weapons", their potential should not be underestimated. The problem of combating small-sized low-flying aircraft has been around for decades, and no adequate cost-effectiveness methods of combating them have been created in this way.

21-11-2022 admin 40282 0