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100 luminaries were asked, including the likes of Bill Clinton, Francis Fukuyama, and David Petraeus, about their opinions on past year events, as well as their predictions for the foreseeable future. Here are some of the 2009 reflections and 2010 predictions of big thinkers: The most significant notes are that China is ascendant, Pakistan is dangerous, [...]

That Iran has become nuclear is no longer a matter of doubt. ‘The Iranians are in fact moving rapidly toward a weapon.’ It has also managed to deceive US intelligence during the Bush administration. It was only during the Obama administration that Iran was discovered to be on full speed at producing nuclear weapons. Dealing with Iran at this juncture, [...]

Ten years of current Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in power have been aimed to strengthen the international role of Russia in the hope that the country recovers its status of great power that the USSR once had. On the other hand, human rights advocates worry that Russia launched a racist and belligerent nationalism. The message seems to have [...]

The administrations of Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev seem to point to one and the same Kremlin principle: destroy political opponents and crush every vestige of opposition. In Russia, the opposition is maligned and persecuted. Media is censored. Critical journalists are killed or subjected to severe harassment as in the cases of Anna Politkovskaya [...]

Following the inauguration of the new US president, Russia suspended the deployment of missiles in Kaliningrad, Russia’s Western outpost that borders European Union members Poland and Lithuania. Preparations to install the “Iskander” short-range missiles were suspended because the new administration in Washington seems to likewise [...]

The war in Georgia makes Russia the US enemy once again. Russia will not take it sitting down, knowing that US and NATO troops are so close by. That, of course, will be an insult to Medvedev and Putin (the former being the best-looking leader Russia has ever produced, while the latter is the exact opposite). There might, just might, be something ominous [...]