The Russia-Ukraine conflict has raised concerns worldwide about food security. While increasing unilateral sanctions against Russia and condemning it for “weaponizing” food, the United States and some other Western countries have also targeted China. In fact, several US media outlets have accused China of hoarding more than half of the world’s corn and wheat, and blamed it for the global food crisis.

Hawks always say our geopolitical situation resembles that of 1938 so that any call for de-escalation, diplomacy or detente can be portrayed as “appeasement”. It’s never 1919, when the conditions which would give rise to World War Two were put in place, or any of the early 20th century years when the trajectory toward World War One could have easily been turned away from.

How a country’s political corruption, institutional decay, and moral decline can be summed up in one sad family saga

A bit of classic IR theory goes a long way toward explaining vexing global problems.

The hostile behavior the ‘west’ is showing towards China and Russia has consequences.

Some think it’s time for NATO to show its ‘overwhelming power’ against Putin, but as always, the devil is in the details.

Government and the media work together to promote war on Russia.

As a piece of the new world order that is under construction, Putin’s trip to Tehran last week was of singular importance.

Several countries that haven’t gone along with the West’s sanctions on Russia are beginning to join forces.

The Tehran summit uniting Iran-Russia-Turkey was a fascinating affair in more ways than one. Ostensibly about the Astana peace process in Syria, launched in 2017, the summit joint statement duly noted that Iran, Russia and (recently rebranded) Turkiye will continue, “cooperating to eliminate terrorists” in Syria and “won’t accept new facts in Syria in the name of defeating terrorism.”