By Alastair Crooke
Aug. 20, 2021
A huge geo-political event has just occurred in Afghanistan: The implosion of a key western strategy for managing what Mackinder,...
By Tayyab Baloch
Moscow has formulated trilateral mechanisms aimed at seeking regional stability through solving the Afghanistan crisis with the help of regional neighboring countries....
Moving forward after the death of Islam Karimov will be difficult and secret services and diplomats around the world will be involved. Uzbekistan is a crucial country in post-Soviet Central Asia and taking control of it, directly or through a third party, will be a move of highly strategic value.