Sitemap - 2023 - The Bismarck Cables

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - as Ukraine's counteroffensive stalls, Putin exploits divisions within the west: another stab at divide and conquer.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Ukraine ''negotiations'' back in spotlight: Revisiting original causes of the invasion and a definitive rebuttal of false narratives around NATO as casus belli.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war, Xi snubs Putin at San Francisco, and fixing porous sanctions on Russian oil.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontline: The nonsense of persuading Putin to abandon China in return for a gainful deal on Ukraine.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war updates, Wagner to help Hizbullah, and Israel needs to adjust its tactics.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War Updates, and how candid remarks by Ukraine's chief commander led to wrong, opportunistic conclusions by "statesmen" in Washington.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Biden and Blinken meet Wang Yi: underlying tensions and China reclaiming some leverage ahead of the November summit.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war, Israel - Hamas war escalates, and reader questions on post-Hamas political order in Gaza.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Israel vs Hamas war: deterrence and dissuasion equation on Iran.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War Updates, and how Israel vs Hamas war affects Putin's plans.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - China's predictable response on Israel vs Hamas war: Beijing is busy exploiting opportunities for itself.

Weekly Overview Cables - Grand strategy and options in the Israel vs Hamas war.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Hamas's attack on Israel.Part I: intel & security failures, and Iran's level of complicity.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War Updates, Putin talks openly about his calculations on Ukraine.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Iran's brazen violation of IAEA monitoring can lead to dangerous outcomes.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war updates, and the Karabakh war: Azerbaijan recovers occupied lands and dissolves the pseudo-state on its territory.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Canada shows how to deal with "allied" states that cross red lines.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War Updates, Zelenskyy in DC, negative signaling and Poland acting petty.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Reader Q&A on latest from China: missing Minister of Defense and worries of a diversionary conflict.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War, Russian Navy suffers a major defeat, and Putin's psyops on 2024 elections.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Moscow- Pyongyang alliance, and imposing major costs on North Korea.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war updates, Russia is the main winner from the G20 Summit fiasco in Delhi.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - BRICS expands with new member states: implications, exaggerations, and realistic threats.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War, Russia acts like a Chinese vassal.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - post-Wagner era for Russian power in the Middle East and Africa.

Cables On The Assassination Of Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - The Spirit of Camp David: a historic statement from the leaders of Japan, ROK, and the US.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war, F-16s, and Swedish Gripens.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Iran "ransom payment" debacle, and dealing with near-term dangers.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War Updates, Saudi peace summit for Ukraine, and the Russia - China frictions resurface once again.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Niger coup: fallout, national interests, and US policy options.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war updates, Nuclear threats and petty ''Gratitude'' complaints.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - subscriber Q&As: "Why is Turkey Cozying up to Saudi Arabia?"

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war updates, Putin's domestic moves and external signaling.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Forcing Putin Back Into The Grain Deal

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War, Cooptation of Russia's financial elite and coercion against Russia's earnest nationalists.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - NATO's Vilnius Summit Part II: allied convergence on China.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war, NATO success at Vilnius Part I.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Advanced tech war with China: Beijing's countermeasures create strategic opportunities for Washington to seize.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War, evaluating Biden's decision to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Putin's next steps after Prigozhin's attempted coup.

Weekly Overview Cables - Updates on the counteroffensive and Ukraine's short-range air defense problem.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Blinken - Xi Jinping meeting, guardrails on conflict, and Biden's ''gaffe''.

Cables On The Russian Coup That Did Not Happen.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - The Ukraine War's Ripple Effect: Assessing America's Involvement and Its Implications for Deterrence Against China: Part III.

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Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War, the ongoing counteroffensive, and Putin deploying nukes to Belarus.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines: Explaining the recent rise in the US - China tensions, and what to make of Washington's ostensibly muted response?

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war, Kakhovka dam, and the counteroffensive begins.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - The Ukraine War's Ripple Effect: Assessing America's Involvement and Its Implications for Deterrence Against China: Part II.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War updates, Kyiv's renewed bid for NATO membership, and Sweden's smart play.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - The Ukraine War's Ripple Effect: Assessing America's Involvement and Its Implications for Deterrence Against China: Part I.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War Updates, operation Belgorod, and ensuring the success of Papua New Guinea security deal.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - NATO coming around on F-16s: obstacles to overcome and crucial battlefield implications.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Latest Pentagon leaks on Zelensky's war tactics and games that Wagner's Prigozhin plays.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War Updates, Storm Shadows, and Blinken - Cleverly meeting.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - New US response on China's role in Ukraine, and the F-16s vs Gripen debate.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war updates, Wagner vs Putin's generals, and the Kremlin drone attack.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Reader Question: Criteria to evaluate Ukraine's success in the upcoming counteroffensive.

Weekly Overview - Ukraine War, Zelensky - Xi Jinping phone call.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Sudan crisis and realpolitik interests at play.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war, Pentagon Leaks Part V, and regrettable fruits of Macron's labor.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Pentagon Leaks Part IV: China's lethal military aid to Russia.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War Updates, Putin's new policy on mobilization, and major insights and implications from the Pentagon leaks.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontline - Macron - Xi meeting: Unlike its American and Western counterparts, France's foreign policy towards China presents marked divergence.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war, yet another mysterious assassination in Russia, Kyiv ready to negotiate on Crimea, and OPEC+ strikes again.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Russia denies military alliance with China: a strategic recalibration or a tactical play?

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war, Countering Russia's hostage-taking plays, and the EU takes a stance on China.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Volkov's argument to reconsider sanctions on oligarchs, and a better way to target Putin's regime and Russia's state capacity.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war, Xi's Moscow trip, and Japan's retort.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - AUKUS: exceptional commitments, opportunities, risks & geostrategic implications.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War, Putin wanted on a warrant, drone clash over the Black Sea, and GOP frontrunners embarrass the US and delight Putin.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - China-brokered Saudi-Iranian rapprochement: implications, risks, and strategic opportunities to exploit.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War, Georgians vs Putin, and the wild allegations around pipeline sabotage.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Iran's enrichment violations lead to a likely military showdown : how to possibly avoid one.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine war, targeting Moscow, and tightening the screws around existing export sanctions against Russia.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Shaping incentives and affecting Beijing's calculus on weapons transfer to Russia.

Weekly Overview Cables - one year of war in Ukraine, F-16 fighter jets, and Biden vs Putin rhetorical standoff.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Munich Security Conference sees Europe shed its pollyanna beliefs.

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Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Reader Q&A on Sweden, Finland and NATO.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War, Putin's planned offensive, Zelensky's fighter jet pitch and monitoring the efficacy of price caps on Russian oil.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Chinese Balloon that crushed diplomatic opportunities.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War, Kyiv's anti-corruption measures, and the logic of South Korea's nuclear talk.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Responding to reader questions: Iran nuclear deal is dead - what comes next?

Weekly Overview - Ukraine War, tank u-turn, and Russia's gameplan in Africa.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Kishida and Biden meet in DC: strategic opportunities and challenges ahead.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War, Russia's troublesome paramilitaries, oil price caps begin to bite, and the great tank indecision,

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - Justifying support for Ukraine without resorting to uncredible and over the top arguments.

Weekly Overview Cables - Ukraine War, Putin's new theater commander, and Sweden, Turkey & F16s.

Cables From The Diplomatic Frontlines - What Needs to Happen for Ukraine to Win in 2023.