Author: Muhammet Ali Zurnacı

The German Defense Minister's emphasis that Europeans invest more in defense will ease the burden on the United States is a passive-aggressive emulation.

What we see now is not an 'escalate to de-escalate' or an 'escalate to escalate' but a controlled escalation to fear

They will be remembered by the outsiders as 'challenging leaders with limited powers' and by the insiders and their official history as 'limited heroes.'

The smart take was in the MAZ Foresight Report. (September 2021) “Russia will pay prices beyond her calculations.”

Soft behaviors of Germany and France are likely to give way to an expected level of hardness in the very near future.

Yet a protracted decision making and extended maneuvering of European leaders may magnify the unintended consequences of an “highly possible” conflict. Otherwise, “Nothing about Europe without Europe”.

Does “Geo Political Oppression” or a “Threat Perception” cause hard moves in the time of Economic Contraction? 

Decision makers of the PEK Region may need a series of therapies to reduce the stress and develop their problem solving capabilities. All they need may be to change their…

The point is and will be for some time more about the “consequences of the cost.” but not the consequences of the conflict. Conflict is broad, while the cost is…

Global developments, harshing power competitions, multiplying actors, overt and covert ambitions of regional powers including flexing Russia force the Turkish tradition to play within a shrinking range of motion..