Martin Arostegui
The Monroe Doctrine, established in 1823, was originally drafted to protect U.S. interests against European powers that could try to recolonize South American countries gaining independence from Spain and to ward off Russian moves into the Pacific Northwest. Czarist Russia…
The fall of the Assad regime in Syria is a fatal blow to Iran’s position in the Middle East and could disrupt Russia’s power projection in the Mediterranean and Africa. But the extent to which this rolls back the Moscow–Tehran…
In democratic countries, one would expect that incompetent and corrupt politicians actively involved in scandals, deadly disasters, or other catastrophes would get voted out of office, fired, prosecuted, or at least retired into obscurity. But if they are pitching for…
European governments, which just some years ago sneered at Donald Trump for insisting that they penny up on their NATO defense spending obligations, are now advising their citizens to stock up on bottled water, canned food, and flashlight batteries, locate…
Eleven thousand North Korean troops sent by Kim Jung Un to aid his close ally Vladimir Putin in his war against Ukraine, include a significant contingent of Special Forces with recent combat experience in Syria and trained to fight South…
The dazzling effects of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s battlefield acrobatics are wearing thin. His incursion into Russia’s border region of Kursk, hailed back in August as a military feat, has failed in its objective of drawing Russian forces away from the…
Terrorist networks supported by Iran in Latin America could conduct third-country attacks against the U.S. and Israel as part of the wider war resulting from the assassination of a Hamas political leader in Teheran according to intelligence sources. The Iranian…
Crucial elections in Venezuela this Sunday are being conducted against a backdrop of increased Russian military activity in the Caribbean as another naval task force sails into Cuba, and Moscow ally, President Nicolás Maduro threatens to submerge the region in…
“Ukraine will stop Putin” declared America’s failing president whose uncertain political fate and cognitive issues loomed over NATO’s 75th annual conference hosted last week in Washington, where many participants took time on the side to meet with some of Donald…
