Strategy&Future

Poland has joined the list of countries that are going to operate the Turkish Bayraktar UAVs. In the near future, Turkish drones are going to fly in the skies of Poland and the Baltic countries along with the other countries that have already bought the Bayraktar TB2: Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Qatar and Tunisia (Anka-S). However, the Drone Deal between Poland and Turkey was regarded in Turkey as historic because it was the first ever the NATO-member and EU-member state to decide to buy Turkish drones. This is consequently viewed as a recognition of the high-level of technological advancement Turkey has made.

The Ukrainian-Russian War: An Assessment of Risks, Scenarios and Theatres of War. Part 5 of 5

A Dystopia about a Failed Communist Revolution and the Rise of a Totalitarian State in the U.S.A. “I tell you we are on the verge of the unknown,” he insisted. “Big things are happening secretly all around us. We can feel them. We do not know what they are, but they are there. The whole fabric of society is a-tremble with them. Don’t ask me. I don’t know myself. But out of this flux of society something is about to crystallize. It is crystallizing now. The suppression of the book is a precipitation. How many books have been suppressed? We haven’t the least idea. We are in the dark.” Ernest Evergard

The Ukrainian-Russian War: An Assessment of Risks, Scenarios and Theatres of War. Part 4 of 5

The Ukrainian-Russian War: An Assessment of Risks, Scenarios and Theatres of War. Part 3 of 5

The Ukrainian-Russian War: An Assessment of Risks, Scenarios and Theatres of War. Part 2 of 5

2021 will be the anniversary of Ukrainian independence and 30 years since the fall of the Soviet Union. It will be a time to bring to the table some achievements that have occurred since the declaration of independence.

The American President W. Wilson touched upon the problem of Odessa: “I was struck by the words in the telegrams we read: The population of Odessa is hostile to us. If this is so, then you can ask a question: why keep this island surrounded and almost submerged by communism? This strengthens me in my policy, that Russia should be left to the Bolsheviks, and we should limit ourselves to the fact that we will prevent Bolshevism from penetrating into other European countries.”

In autumn, the situation in the region deteriorated. On September 27th, the month and a half long Nagorno-Karabakh War began. The geopolitical consequences of the war were detrimental for Armenia, and have not been settled so far. The country fell totally under the control of Moscow, hence increasing Russian military presence in the Southern Caucasus.

The second half of 2020 will be considered by many historians and experts as an important historical period that determined the development of the political and geopolitical situation in two crucial regions of Europe, Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus. The entire Russian European borderland from the Baltic to the Southern Caucasus has been on political fire since the middle of the summer.

In 2013 Russia’s Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu and Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov jointly announced the creation of a Special Operations Forces. Already back in 2008, during the tenure of Shoygu’s predecessor Anatoliy Serdyukov, it had been decided to establish an SOF under the Special Operations Forces Command of the General Staff with its HQ on the outskirts of Moscow.

Marek Budzisz i Ridvan Bari Urcosta rozmawiają z Dimitrim Avalianim o demokracji na Kaukazie Południowym, o politycznym kryzysie w Gruzji i sytuacji w Osetii Południowej i Abchazji.