As the Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine slowly progresses, Ankara is offering to host another round of talks between Kiev and Moscow. Turkey is among a few nations that have attempted to broker a diplomatic end to the conflict.
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80+ Senators ‘Fully Committed’ to NATO Membership for Sweden & Finland, Demand Shortened Process
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | May 25, 2022 | News Roundup
A significant majority of the US Senate has signed a letter welcoming Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the group of 82 senators urging for expedited membership for the two Nordic states.
Turkey Could Block NATO Membership for Finland, Sweden
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | May 13, 2022 | News Roundup
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s sole Asian member has suggested it could bar two Nordic countries from entering the alliance.
Europe Is Trapping Itself Through Monetary Manipulation
by Tom Luongo | May 9, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There’s a lot of news flying around about the changes happening in global currency trading. From “Gas for Rubles” to “What the Hell is Going on With the Yen?” there are a lot of questions and very few answers as to what it all means and whose on which side of the...
The Case Against ‘Uyghur Genocide’
by Peter Lee | Feb 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In Xinjiang, the People's Republic of China (PRC) is conducting perhaps the most intensive program of social engineering in recent history. It is probably trampling on the human rights of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities, systemically and by design and randomly...
Turkey’s Diplomatic Mission Turns Into an Arms Sale – News Roundup 2/4/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 3, 2022 | News Roundup
In recent weeks, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed he was uniquely positioned to negotiate a reduction in tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Turkey is a NATO member state that purchased advanced Russian weapons, and has been at decisive odds with...
News Roundup 2/3/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 2, 2022 | News Roundup
Covid A Johns Hopkins study finds lockdowns had almost no impact on reducing covid mortality. [Link] The Army will begin discharging soldiers who refuse the covid vaccine. Over 3,000 soldiers have received written reprimands for refusing the vaccine. [Link] The US...
Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
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Vance in Munich w/Kyle Matovcik
Kyle joined me to listen and discuss Vance’s fiery speech at the Munich Security Council last week.
It Begins: Blow-back Will Commence Once Festivities Begin
United States declares eight Latin American drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. This will not go well and the sophisticated ratlines, logistics enterprises and support networks will be leveraged to the highest order for retaliatory strikes in CONUS....
Hinting at War and Disaster: Mexico Will Go Up in Flames
Here are some news items from the war on cartels. This is a very ominous development. After two weeks of US Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft conducting multiple signals intelligence (SIGINT) operations along the US-Mexico border and in...
Comply or Be Burned to the Ground
The IED nonsense continues at professional military education institutions as the zampolits flee for cover. "The Engagement, Retention, and Equal Opportunity directly supports the Naval Academy's Strategic Imperative One: To recruit, admit, and graduate a diverse and...
National Greatness
“A nation which makes greatness its polestar can never be free; beneath national greatness sink individual greatness, honor, wealth and freedom. But though history, experience and reasoning confirm these ideas; yet all- powerful delusion has been able to make the...
Ep 013 “End of an Era: The Infantry Folds Its Colors”
New WarNotes Podcast episode is live Monday 17 February 2025. The age of the infantry is over after a thousands-year long reign in human warfare and conflict. The next 75 years in the 21st century will put paid to an august and enduring institution in human conflict....
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