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Russia’s Unconventional Warfare: Moscow’s domination of the Information Space

By Antonio Graceffo November 4, 2023Russia

by Antonio Graceffo U.S. intelligence and defense services, as well as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) 2023 Threat Assessment recognize China and Russia as the two greatest threats…

Third Actors and Implications for International Order in the Ukraine War

By Antonio Graceffo November 4, 2023Blog

By Antonio Graceffo On the surface, the Ukraine war appears to be a conflict between two primary actors, namely, the Russian Federation and the sovereign nation of Ukraine. On deeper…

SCO Expansion Extends CCP Diplomatic and Military Reach

By Antonio Graceffo November 4, 2023China

By Antonio Graceffo The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is expanding by absorbing pariah states, such as Iran, Burma (also known as Myanmar), and Belarus, while increasing the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP)…

Russia’s role in the Sudan conflict

By Antonio Graceffo October 26, 2023Russia

By Antonio Graceffo Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin of the infamous Wagner mercenary group also owns a U.S.-sanctioned company called Meroe Gold. This company extracts gold from Sudan, supporting Russian President Vladimir…

Brazil’s Lula and China’s Xi: A CCP-Led World Order

By Antonio Graceffo October 26, 2023World

By Antonio Graceffo From Ukraine to Taiwan and ditching the dollar, Brazil is on board with the new communist China-led order. On April 14, Brazil’s leftist president, Luiz Inacio Lula…

Economics as a Weapon of War: Ukraine, China and Beyond

By Antonio Graceffo October 14, 2023Ukraine

By Antonio Graceffo Apply this economic, peaceful, silent, deadly remedy and there will be no need for force. It is a terrible remedy. It does not cost a life outside of…

Information Leaks and Russia’s Lies

By Antonio Graceffo October 14, 2023Blog

By Antonio Graceffo “We are at that stage of the war when the information war is sometimes even more important than the direct physical clashes at the front,” Lt. Col. Yurii…

Wagner Group: Putin’s attack dogs

By Antonio Graceffo October 14, 2023Russia

By Antonio Graceffo “I think this is a tool for realizing national interests without the direct participation of the state,” is how on Nov. 4, 2012 Vladimir Putin described the deployment of…

The Ukraine War and Great Power Competition

By Antonio Graceffo October 1, 2023Ukraine

By Antonio Graceffo The term Great Power competition (GPC) can be used as a framework to analyze interstate relations, such as those between the United States and the Russian Federation.…

South Africa Choosing Sides in China–Russia Wargames

By Antonio Graceffo September 15, 2023World

South Africa conducts military drills with Russia and China as blocs form across the globe By Antonio Graceffo Combined military and naval drills between South Africa, Russia, and China began…