By Onur Sinan Güzaltan New developments are unfolding rapidly in West Asia. Days go by with analyses like “The war is now imminent” and “Now today it is even more imminent”. In reality, the war has already started. We are living it. History will write it as such. We simply refrain from naming it. Yes. Let’s return to the topic ...
The Turkish newspaper Aydınlık has reported that Kyiv held talks with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorists in Syria to recruit them for operations against Russia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Ukrainian intelligence emissaries were in the Idlib de-escalation zone on Syrian territory, where they were recruiting militants for new operations. Maria Zakharova said that Ukraine’s leadership itself had turned ...
In September, Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow and the Moscow region intensified. On the night of September 1, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the “destruction and interception” of 158 drones, most of which were aimed at targets in the Kursk and Bryansk regions, but some UAVs hit Moscow. One of the drones hit the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya, and ...
By Onur Sinan Güzaltan UWI author political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan was guest to Turkish TV channel Ulusal Kanal. Güzaltan shared his views on the questions on Kursk and afterward. Translated into English by UWI. An operation of failure How do you evaluate the developments following the Ukrainian army’s attack on Kursk? The Chief of General Staff of Ukraine made ...
By Tevfik Kadan The Kiev administration had previously collaborated with PKK/PYD to conduct covert operations against Russian forces in Syria. Now it became public that Kyiv has reached out to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the terrorist group occupying Idlib. Kyiv’s objective is to secure the release of Chechen militants held in HTS prisons. Local sources report that a Ukrainian delegation ...
By Michael Roberts * Editorial note: This article was published prior to the election it deals with. But due to its deep and structural analysis, UWI considers that its finding are not only worthy to explain the results but also shed a light on Germany’s path ahead. Elections took place in two large provincial states (Lander) in eastern Germany. All the ...
By Deniz Yıldırım The energy crisis, rising food and rent prices, the highest inflation in the last 70 years… The cost of supporting Ukraine is becoming more burdensome every day. Since February 2022, the German government has allocated approximately 34 billion euros in support to Ukraine and Ukrainians. Germany ranks second after the US. However, support for Ukraine is being ...
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 ...
The German government has permitted Ukraine the use of German weapons against Russian territory. This caused a debate not limited to Germany. Many voices fear an escalation of the conflict. One of them is Thomas Fasbender, the geopolitics editor of the German daily newspaper Berliner Zeitung. The newspaper is not pro-Russian. In a commentary in the same media, Alexander Dubowy ...