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Mare Clausum: Why the Black Sea is No Longer a Russian Lake
As traditional naval power yields to asymmetric attrition, the Black Sea has become a laboratory for post-modern warfare. Kyiv’s victory in the naval war, achieved without a fleet, is rewriting the rules of global maritime security.
15 Sept 2025
The De-Industrialisation of the Rhine: Europe’s New Energy Reality
Europe has successfully severed its reliance on Russian gas, but the victory is pyrrhic. By trading cheap pipeline energy for expensive global LNG, the continent has fundamentally altered its industrial DNA and shifted its dependency westward.
15 May 2025
Central Asia: The End of Russian Monopoly
As Moscow focuses on the Ukrainian front, the five Stans are quietly rewriting the rules of Eurasian trade. Western capital and Chinese infrastructure are dismantling a century of Russian hegemony in the world’s most strategic land corridor.
15 Jan 2025
The Tsar’s Shadow: How Prigozhin Exposed the Russian Vertical
A year after the Wagner mutiny, the Kremlin appears stable, but the internal architecture of power has fundamentally shifted. Behind the surface of unity lies a system forced to trade efficiency for absolute personal loyalty.
15 Sept 2024
The Silken Trap: Moscow’s Eastern Pivot and the Cost of Survival
As Russia severs ties with the West, its rapid tilt toward Beijing is often framed as a strategic masterstroke. In reality, Moscow is trading European integration for a lopsided dependency that risks turning Russia into a resource colony.
15 May 2024
Internal Borders: The Structural Geometry of a Frozen Ukraine
As the frontline transitions from movement to endurance, the emergence of a 'New 38th Parallel' is shifting from a military failure into a conscious strategic choice for global powers seeking to contain systemic escalation.
15 Jan 2024
The Fortress Pivot: Why Sanctions Failed to Break the Russian State
Western sanctions aimed to collapse the rouble and starve the Russian war machine. Instead, they forced a structural decoupling that accelerated a domestic industrial pivot, creating a resilient, high-pressure economy fueled by redirected energy flows.
15 Sept 2023
The Arithmetic of Ruin: Why Time is the Ultimate Munition in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has transitioned from a kinetic blitz to a brutal competition of industrial endurance. To predict the victor, we must measure the durability of domestic political will against the fragility of global supply chains.
15 May 2023
Is Algeria becoming an important actor in Europe’s gas supply?
2 May 2022
Are Turkish drones stopping Russian advances in Ukraine?
2 Mar 2022
How Islam Spread to Russia
29 Apr 2021
2021 Forecast: Europe – Will The EU Collapse?
In 2021, Europe will face challenges both familiar and unforeseen. The future of the old continent will to a large extent depend on the evolving global constellation of forces, but also on the way the European Union chooses to position itself.
31 Jan 2021
The UK and EU finalize Brexit deal: What does this mean for the Middle East?
28 Dec 2020
Eurasia’s Great Game: India, Japan and Europe play to Putin’s needs
18 Oct 2019
EU strength after Brexit
4 Oct 2019
Is Turkey using the migration crisis as an opportunity to strengthen its EU bid?
Germany and Turkey have a positive meeting over migration Turkey has long been cooperating with the EU on controlling migration flow and establishing quotas. Germany on Sept. 12 reaffirmed its commitment to the EU-Turkey refugee agreement, amid fears of another refugee wave due to the Syrian regime’s attacks in the northwestern region of Idlib. Speaking at a news conference in Berlin, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas expressed concern over recent developments and an increasing number of crossings in the Aegean Sea in recent months. “I have discussed these issues in a phone call with my Turkish counterpart Çavuşoğlu this week. “I had once again highlighted that the EU would honour its commitments under the EU-Turkey refugee agreement,” he said, adding that he expected Turkey would also continue to honour its commitments. “It has been a very constructive discussion. So I believe that the situation will step by step calm down and normalize again,” he added. Last week Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned of a new potential refugee influx from the conflict-torn Idlib, Syria, and he urged the EU to take measures to share the burden. He underlined that Turkey might open the doors for refugees to cross to Europe if the EU would not share the burden. While this is continued cooperation between Turkey and the EU, Turkey’s renewed interest could signify another push to use cooperation on the migration issue to strengthen its bid to enter the EU. Subscribe to read the full article We wish we didn't have to do this, but only paid subscribers can read the full article, Unlike other publishers, we are not the beneficiaries of State funds and are entirely dependent on our supporters to keep KJ Vids functioning. Please subscribe to read the rest of the article. The First 1,000 subscribers will receive a 50% lifetime discount to our content. - Access over 500 videos explaining global politics - Full access to all articles - Vote on future video topics - Secure Questions for Video Q&As Sign Up - https://www.kjreports.com/product/lifetimediscount/
13 Sept 2019
Is Iran taking advantage of the increasing rift between the US and EU?
Iran closes the door on the US Iran has appeared to close all doors of possible re-establishment of talks with the US, as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ruled out holding any bilateral talks with the United States and threatened to further cut commitments to the country’s crumbling nuclear deal with world powers within days. “Maybe there has been a misunderstanding. We have said it several times and we repeat it – there has been no decision to hold bilateral talks with the US,” said Rouhani. “In principle, we do not want bilateral talks with the United States,” he added. Last month, Iran’s stance towards the US has shown that it has not changed or even worsened, as, in his speech, Iranian President Rouhani also struck a muscular tone on dealings with the US, saying that “talks are useless” over the nuclear deal. “Now that our enemies do not accept logic, we cannot respond with logic,” Rouhani said. He added: “When the enemy launches a missile against us, we cannot give a speech and say: ‘Mr. Rocket, please do not hit our country and our innocent people. Rocket-launching sir, if you can please hit a button and self-destroy the missile in the air.’” If the situation between Iran and the US is to de-escalate, the US will have to present an opening or improve terms. Subscribe to read the full article We wish we didn't have to do this, but only paid subscribers can read the full article, Unlike other publishers, we are not the beneficiaries of State funds and are entirely dependent on our supporters to keep KJ Vids functioning. Please subscribe to read the rest of the article. The First 1,000 subscribers will receive a 50% lifetime discount to our content. - Access over 500 videos explaining global politics - Full access to all articles - Vote on future video topics - Secure Questions for Video Q&As Sign Up - https://www.kjreports.com/product/lifetimediscount/
3 Sept 2019
Does the disposal of Salvini signal the fall of the far right in Italy?
Did Salvini make a mistake in calling for snap elections? The leader of Italy’s ruling League party, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, declared the governing coalition to be unworkable on Thursday after months of internal bickering and said the only way forward was to hold fresh elections. The shock announcement follows a period of intense public conflict and debate between the right-wing League and its coalition partner, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, and it throws Italy into an uncertain political future. Salvini said in a statement he had told Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who belongs to neither coalition party, that the alliance with 5-Star had collapsed after barely a year in power and “we should quickly give the choice back to the voters”. 5-Star was the largest party at last year’s elections but it has struggled since the government was formed, while Salvini has prospered thanks to his popular hard line on immigration and a charismatic and informal “man of the people” public image. It now appears that the move was a mistake, as he took a risk that did not pay off and created a hostility that got him removed from governance. Subscribe to read the full article We wish we didn't have to do this, but only paid subscribers can read the full article, Unlike other publishers, we are not the beneficiaries of State funds and are entirely dependent on our supporters to keep KJ Vids functioning. Please subscribe to read the rest of the article. The First 1,000 subscribers will receive a 50% lifetime discount to our content. - Access over 500 videos explaining global politics - Full access to all articles - Vote on future video topics - Secure Questions for Video Q&As Sign Up - https://www.kjreports.com/product/lifetimediscount/
1 Sept 2019