6th October, 2017
Russia no longer even has to lift a finger (or buy a few thousands dollars worth of Facebook ads) to steal influence from the US in key geopolitical hotspots: the US can do so on its own.
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Posts Tagged ‘Middle East looks east’
One day after historic Saudi-Russian summit, US suspends military exercises with “Arab allies”
Posted by seumasach on October 7, 2017
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: End of empire, Middle East looks east, Russian diplomacy, saudi russia rapprochement, US-Saudi rift | Leave a Comment »
Russia & Saudi Arabia to set up $1bn energy fund
Posted by seumasach on October 3, 2017
2nd October, 2017
A joint Russian-Saudi fund to invest in the energy sector will be announced during the forthcoming visit of the kingdom’s monarch Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to Moscow, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told the Al Arabiya TV Channel.
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Who’s really trying to overthrow Mohammed Bin Salman?
Posted by seumasach on October 2, 2017
Andrew Korybko
September, 30th, 2017
Saudi Arabia arrested between 16-30 people in a broad crackdown across the Kingdom.
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How Syria’s victory reshapes Mideast
Posted by seumasach on October 2, 2017
Alastair Crooke
30th September, 2017
Plainly, Syria’s success – notwithstanding the caution of President Bashar al-Assad in saying that signs of success are not success itself – in resisting, against the odds, all attempts to fell the state suggest that a tipping point in the geopolitics of the region has occurred.
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