Tag: Russia

China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin join forces against the West during a meeting ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

From the frontline to the bottom line: The crisis in Ukraine and volatility in the stock market  This week, under the looming threat of an invasion of Ukraine global stock markets became very jittery. While the threat of conflict is not the only driver of market volatility (economic policy announcements from the US Federal Reserve […]

SOFREP breaks with the mainstream media narrative that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is “imminent” for various reasons you can read here

Russia is active again in Central and South America, with cash in hand looking for bases for their ships and planes. Will their military provocations spark another Cuban Missile Crisis?

Russia has sent some 2,500 troops into Kazakhstan during a civil revolt. We don’t think it has anything to do with Putin wanting to take over the country. We think it’s all about the International Space Station.

In this final part of the Dick Marcinko interviews, Dick makes the prediction that terrorists will hit the United States with a Dirty-Bomb as the tactics of the terrorists shift from mass casualty attacks to economic warfare against our power grid, water supply and ports.

The new year always brings the promise of new things being just on the horizon. The world is a volatile place today, with shifting economies, the continued presence of Islamist terrorism around the world, and the Great Game of competition between nations seeking diplomatic, strategic, and economic advantages around the globe. Everyone is a prognosticator […]

The Russian Mercenaries of Wagner Group are the stars of a new film lauding their work in Mozambique. It seems more to us like an infomercial for Wagner than entertainment.

From Russia to China and even TikTok subverting law and order in public schools, this is the SOFREP week in review.

In a seeming de-escalation of the security crisis along the Russian-Ukrainian border, Moscow has withdrawn ten-thousand of the estimated 110,000 troops it has positioned near the border. Moscow did this even as it reasserted its demand of a legal guarantee that Ukraine will never be admitted to NATO, that the U.S. cease selling arms to Ukraine and that it act as mediator in negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and European countries.

Western governments protest the government of Mali hiring Russian mercenaries under the guise of bringing in the Wagner Group which is accused of operating as a proxy for Moscow and Vladamir Putin.

President Biden and UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace are both ruling out the possibility that NATO will commit troops to repel an invasion of Ukraine by Putin and Russia.