OPINION: New waves of increasingly tough economic sanctions to be imposed on Russia lock the United States onto a path of inevitably increasing tensions with Moscow, reaching a point inadmissible for relations between the two major nuclear powers.

Progress and retrogression characterize the history of international law and human rights. There are tides of opportunity, moments of glory, moments of shame.

A simultaneous war with China and Russia is a strategic nightmare that sober American strategists such as Henry Kissinger have been warning the US to avoid at all costs, and it is also a topic that some US media outlets have become more and more fond of talking about in recent years. At least from the publicly available information, Washington has never previously addressed it as a formal political agenda, supposedly aware of its seriousness and the terrible risks it carries. But the publication of a report by a congressionally appointed bipartisan panel titled America’s Strategic Posture crossed this “red line” on October 12.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was the guest of honour at China’s celebration of ten years of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) held on October 17-18 in Beijing, where everyone who was anyone in the development world attended the party.

While some Russian heavyweights push to recast Israel as a hostile state, the Kremlin is unlikely to budge. Instead, Moscow will stay ‘neutral’ to maximize its West Asian influence, all while edging closer to the Arab and Muslim worlds.

Washington needs all the help it can get to prevent a regional conflagration.

The attacks from Gaza: government supporters in Israel are dangerously ignorant of their own history

The biblical prayer “Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do” is not valid in the age of the internet and universal access to information. Monstrous crimes against biblical commandments and universal human morality are committed by people armed with modern technology, having access to the knowledge and benefits of civilization. The level of education and well-being of the Palestinians is much higher than in most countries of the world, and they have more rights and opportunities than in neighboring Arab countries. Among those who support them, there are many darlings of liberal democracy with university degrees and high status.

Chinese and Russian leaders celebrate trillion-dollar Belt and Road work as evidence of shifting thinking in geopolitical relations

As Xi and his Russian counterpart meet, both are facing calls to do more to ease tension in the Middle East, amid fresh scrutiny of a relationship that looks increasingly one-sided.