Although it is uncertain how this will help the Ukrainian army to improve its combat capabilities, the announcement by the US and Germany that they will provide Ukraine with offensive tanks will undoubtedly drag Russia and Ukraine into a quagmire, pushing the end of this conflict further away.
At a time when Western countries are imposing the toughest sanctions on Russia, opinion polls suggest that the number of Russians who are optimistic about the future has incredibly increased, which, local experts noted, shows that the character of the Russian people is to be more united while their country is pressured.
The sign is clearer than ever that the US is turning Quad into a tool to serve its own strategic goal of countering China and Russia simultaneously, observers said, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought the topic of the Ukraine crisis to the Friday meeting of Quad foreign ministers when this group of US, Australia, Japan and India was formed for Indo-Pacific affairs and to target China.
After days of unrest in Kazakhstan, the largest country in the Central Asian region, the situation has begun to stabilize with the arrival of CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces. What are the reasons behind the violent protests? What lessons should regional countries learn? How will it change geopolitics in Central Asia?
With half of Kazakhstan s territory engulfed in riots, the country has taken more measures to deal with the unrest, including seeking assistance from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). As the chaos in the Central Asian country - the worst in decades - has shown signs of a