Armand Chouet at Robert Lansing Institute

Risk evaluation: GOP candidates may reconsider Joe Biden’s foreign policy choices

As leaders of U.S. Democrats and Republicans confront each other in electoral race, there is a danger of making wrong foreign policy decisions, likely to cause U.S. military casualties, while current…

December 11, 2023USA

Geopolitics Governance National Security

depletion of Russia’s military potential can prevent NATO countries from getting involved in a new war in Europe

The increasing risks of further escalation caused by Russian territorial expansion and imperial policy revival require Western countries to put efforts to create conditions to prevent the Kremlin from conducting…

October 12, 2023NATO, Russia, Ukraine

Geopolitics Opinion

Increased supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine serves Germany’s interests

Germany has received a historic chance to shed all negativity that has been trailing behind the nation since World War 2 by demonstrating leadership in a free and democratic Europe in…

September 13, 2022Germany, Ukraine

Estimates Governance

Global security and de-escalation between the West and China depend on Russia’s dismantling

Aggressive war unleashed against Ukraine, an effort to rebuild the empire, economic blackmail of Europe, provoked famine in Africa, and how the Russian people feel about that suggest the only way out - to disintegrate Russia and mould several independent nations on ethnic grounds. This scenario looks promising today, as separatist attitude in some regions of Russia,…

July 13, 2022Russia

Geopolitics Opinion

Germany: NATO’s weak spot-to-be

German policy indicates that Berlin is steering clear from the Western alliance. As Angela Merkel left German chancellery, Berlin is increasingly showing a stance that conflicts with most of the…

January 21, 2022Germany, NATO

Democracy Opinion

Boundaries of intervention

The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan called into question Washington credibility as a reliable strategic partner and drew criticism toward the White House. Certain hostile forces, including Russia, which…

August 18, 2021Afghanistan

Drug trafficking

Pro-Iranian proxies export Captagon as hybrid war weapon

Tehran and Damascus use the drug trafficking both as a source to finance their activities and as hybrid war weapon. In order to weaken the West the Soviet Union has…

June 29, 2021captagon, Hezbollah, Iran

Geopolitics Opinion

Lavrov-Blinken meeting: Russia chooses not to read the writing on the wall

The outcome of the meeting between the US Secretary of State Blinken and Foreign Minister Lavrov in Reykjavik, Iceland, casts a long shadow on the Kremlin’s outlook for ramming down…

May 21, 2021Antony Blinken, Russia, USA

National Security Warfare

Russia targets American diplomats with new directed energy weapon

‘Havana Syndrome’ is a result of Soviet microwave weapons technologies used in the 1970s. According to new reporting from The New York Times, over 130 American diplomats, troops and other…

May 18, 2021Havana Syndrome, Microwave weapons, Russia

Intelligence ops

Matters of priority for Russian intelligence in 2020

Both ELINT and HUMINT findings for the missions by Russian intelligence reveal the Kremlin is vigorous, as at the height of the Cold War. The issues Russian intelligence agencies are…

December 24, 2020FSB, GRU, Russia

Posts by Armand Chouet

Risk evaluation: GOP candidates may reconsider Joe Biden’s foreign policy choices

depletion of Russia’s military potential can prevent NATO countries from getting involved in a new war in Europe

Increased supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine serves Germany’s interests

Global security and de-escalation between the West and China depend on Russia’s dismantling

Germany: NATO’s weak spot-to-be

Boundaries of intervention

Pro-Iranian proxies export Captagon as hybrid war weapon

Lavrov-Blinken meeting: Russia chooses not to read the writing on the wall

Russia targets American diplomats with new directed energy weapon

Matters of priority for Russian intelligence in 2020

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