The International Monetary Fund in January 2025 estimated that Russia’s real gross domestic product grew 3.8% in 2024. The IMF’s growth projection for the country in 2025, however, was just 1.4%. What Has Happened Since Russia Invaded Ukraine? It’s hard to know where to begin, but one...
Why did Germany invade Russia during WW2? Why did the Mongols invade Russia? Why did Osama bin Laden go to Afghanistan? Why did the United States and U.S.S.R. engage in proxy wars during the Cold War? Why was the Taliban formed?
A political cartoon of Nicholas II and General Obruchev looking over a 'War Map' with 'Russia' on one side, 'England' on the other, and 'Afghanistan' between them; beneath the table, having come through a trap door, is 'the Herald's Special Correspondent,' c. 1885. From the early ...
actually, the pieces can be very cheap if you actually know how to live side by side with another power. And, you know, it is historically the Russians, sorry, the Europeans that have invaded Russia, not the other way around. And I think that’s something that...
As I reveal in The Last Oil Shock, the CIA was also well aware of Iraq’s unique value, having secretly paid for new maps of its petroleum geology to be drawn as early as 1998. Cheney also knew, fretting publicly about global oil depletion at a speech in London the following year, wh...
Since 2001 year, after US (the bankers and the Group) invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, the production of drugs in Afghanistan has increased more than 40 times and the biggest part of it goes North to Russia….. So we can see the hidden agenda of the bankers. Not only making $$$ but als...
Why did Russia switch sides in the Napoloeonic Wars? Why did Emperor Claudius invaded Britain? Why did Harald Hardrada invade England? Why didn't Germany surrender before the Battle of Berlin? Why didn't the Crimeans help with the Battle of Vienna? Why did Peter the Great strengthen serfdom...
And, the zone extends eastward to include Afghanistan and Pakistan, up to the latter’s border with India. Consonant with the British imperial “Great Game,” Brzezinski argues that skillful manipulation of this “global-zone of percolating violence” can be used to halt Russia from becoming an...
What did the President George W. Bush say when the US invaded Afghanistan? The invasion, led by US forces with help from NATO allies, was framed specifically as a step in a war on terrorism. “These carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist ...
Then Russia invaded Germany, someone bombed Nord Stream 2, and the U.S. started shipping massive amounts of liquefied natural gas to Europe to replace that gas. CORRECTION: An earlier version of this report misstated the country that Russia invaded. Lead Art: HOUSTON, TEXA...