After Ukraine, who’s the next? Ukraine’s Situation Makes Russia’s Other Neighbors Nervous

When Vladimir Putin announced the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea and then orders troops into eastern Ukraine on ‘peacekeeping duties’, he made it clear that the region’s large Russian-speaking population made the move necessary and inevitable. In fact, large populations of Russian speakers are common along the fringes of the old Soviet Union. Those groups are…

Taliban and Turkmenistan are moving to revive TAPI gas pipeline (UPDATED).

TAPI has long been hailed as a monumentally important project – but it’s unclear whether it will ever be built.

That Signal Central Asia is at Regional Risk of War – Georges Friedman and Saleem Ali.

The entire US strategy for Afghanistan was each president keeping the war going so the next president had to bite the bullet. After 20 years, the bullet was bitten. The end looked the only way it could, chaos hard-wired into the system. We all believe we could have done better. – George Friedman