January 14, 2021
Special Dispatch No. 9141
Russian Military Expert Valyuzhenich: Through Azerbaijan, Erdogan Got Immediate Access Points To Three Strategic Directions For Turkey: Armenia, Russia And Iran
January 14, 2021
Moskovsky Komsomolets published an article titled Flight Paths of Turkish Aircraft to Azerbaijan Disclose Erdogan s Military Plans featuring an interview by the paper s Fyodor Danilchenko with military expert Alexey Valyuzhenich. The article argued that while the January 11, 2021, joint statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the development of Karabakh was well and good, it ignored the elephant, who was not in the room – Turkish President Recep Erdogan. Turkey has secured an enhanced military presence in Azerbaijan and it is cementing it with an incessant airlift of military supplies to three key locations – Qabala, Lankaran and Ganja. Via these locations, Turk
The second joint patrol of Russian and Chinese strategic nuclear bombers, this time over the Sea of Japan and East China Sea, symbolizes the unity of both countries against a host
The U.S. decision [to recognize Morocco s sovereignty over the Western] Sahara, and Morocco s decision to renew the open relations with Israel, triggered a flood of negative reactions, all of which [claimed] that this move harms the stability of the region and may plunge it into a vortex of violence, social unrest, etc. The first to issue this prophecy was Palestinian journalist Abd Al-Bari Atwan, who wrote in an article in [the online daily] Rai Al-Yawm… that the Morocco-Israel agreement may be a recipe for civil war or even for wars [between] and unrest within the Maghreb countries, which have heretofore been immune to the wars and unrest that characterized the Arab East. [2] The same position was taken by the [pro-Palestinian] Moroccan Organization for the Support of National Causes, which condemned the renewal of the ties with Israel, describing it as a move which will cost Morocco dearly [and undermine] its history, stability, future and relations with the region. [3]
This Year s Directive Requires The PLA To Deepen Actual Combat Training Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Chinese Communist Party, signed the CMC Order No. 1 of 2021 yesterday, issuing a mobilization order for training to the whole military. The order requires the entire armed forces to focus on war preparedness and ensure constant combat readiness and being primed to fight at any second. Xi demanded that the People s Liberation Army (PLA) persist in 2021 to be guided by Xi Jinping thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, implement Xi Jinping s thinking on strengthening the military, implement the military strategic guideline for a new era, carry out the spirit of the military training conference of the Central Military Commission, strengthen the Party s leadership over the work of military training, focus on preparing for war, further promote th