West Asia is living tectonic shifts at all of its corners, from the Palestine conflict over the Iranian-Israeli tensions, from Turkish-Iraqi agreements to rapprochement between Ankara and Damascus and its repercussions in the Ukraine conflict. We asked Ismail Hakkı Pekin, retired lieutenant-general of the Turkish Armed Forces and former Head of Intelligence at the General Staff, on his evaluations. Let ...
Russian MP Kuznetsov: We need a reliable world, with justice and respect to every nation’s interests
By Edvard Chesnokov Dmitry Kuznetsov is a member of the State Duma (the Russian Parliament) from the SRZP (A Just Russia — For Truth) party. Along with his party fellow, a famous Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin, Kuznetsov stands for Eurasianism and establishing a united anti-American front between Moscow, Ankara, Tehran, Beijing, Pyongyang and other non-western actors. Exclusively to UWI, Dmitry ...
UWI author and political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan evaluated Ukraine’s attack on Kursk and recent developments in West Asia. Güzaltan claims that the war provocations against Russia and Iran are happening simultaneously, and that the response could be coordinated. He also suggests that the front line stretching from Russia to Iran has merged into a single front over time. Why ...