Occurring in quick succession, the dramatic terrorist attacks against Russia at Crocus City Hall and Chinese engineers in Pakistan may yet trigger a seismic event across EurAsia.
The shadowy terrorist elements responsible for both assaults have repeatedly been linked with that master of global terror, the US military-security-intelligence complex. Under growing pressure abroad and at home, Washington’s war-addicted rulers are both desperate and depraved enough to stir such mayhem against their two most powerful adversaries — simultaneously.
Moscow and Beijing aren’t likely to take it lying down. An evident option would be to join forces in a big new anti-terror initiative that would span all EurAsia and perhaps beyond.
And an ideal forum for its launch is imminent: the 2024 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Kazakhstan at mid-year. All eyes will be on Astana.
Polin Thomas
The shadowy terrorist elements responsible for both assaults have repeatedly been linked with that master of global terror, the US military-security-intelligence complex. Under growing pressure abroad and at home, Washington’s war-addicted rulers are both desperate and depraved enough to stir such mayhem against their two most powerful adversaries — simultaneously.
Moscow and Beijing aren’t likely to take it lying down. An evident option would be to join forces in a big new anti-terror initiative that would span all EurAsia and perhaps beyond.
And an ideal forum for its launch is imminent: the 2024 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Kazakhstan at mid-year. All eyes will be on Astana.