January 11, 2021
Special Dispatch No. 9132
Russian Journalist Zhelenin: Putin, Bested By Turkey In Military Clashes In Syria And Libya, Was Reluctant To Challenge Erdogan In Nagorno Karabakh
January 11, 2021
Rosbalt s Alexander Zhelenin offers an explanation of Moscow s refusal to back Armenia militarily in the Karabakh war that is highly unflattering to Vladimir Putin. According to Zhelenin, this was not an act of grand strategy designed to detach Turkey from the West
[1] or to preserve neutrality in order to insert Russian peacekeeping troops in the war s aftermath. The true reason for Russia s restraint was Russia s military weakness vis a vis Turkey as demonstrated in Syria and Libya. Putin feared Turkish military power and Recep Erdogan s unapologetic attitude towards using it.
The United States Has Repeatedly Impinged On China s Vital Interests In the event of an all-out confrontation between China and the United States, the United States would find itself at a great strategic disadvantage. It will be bound to pay a high economic, political, and security cost which could lead to a complete breakdown of the hegemony of the United States in the world. The idea that America is peerless under heaven has long been ingrained in some Americans. Therefore, in the face of the rise of China, the strategy of the United States against China has evolved from the trade war and the war of science and technology at the beginning to containment and strike against China from various dimensions. Especially since 2020, in order to maintain its hegemony, the United States has carried out all-round encirclement and suppression against China. The consequences are serious for both the United States and China.
Anti-Turkey Statements In Iran – Part III: Erdoğan Is Undermining Iran s Territorial Integrity
January 11, 2021 | By A. Savyon and M. Manzour
Introduction
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sparked rage in Iran recently by quoting a popular Azeri poem; his recitation was perceived in Iran as an insult and a provocation against Iran s sovereignty and territorial integrity. On December 10, during his participation in the Azerbaijan victory celebrations over the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia, he recited, in Turkish, a line from the Azeri poem Aras : They tore the Aras [River] and filled it with rocks and sticks / I will not be separated from you. They have separated us forcibly, he said. The poem laments the division of the Azeri provinces between the Persian Qajar Empire and Czarist Russia in the early 19th century. Areas of the Caucasus that are today part of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia belonged to the Qajar Persian Empire, and following its defeats
On December 28, 2020, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) outlet on Telegram published a nine-page PDF guide in Arabic and English for protecting data on Android phones. The document recommended the use of an open-source app that automatically erases smartphone data after a set number of wrong password attempts. The guide provided step-by-step instructions for setting up the app.
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