The Washington Outsider Newsletter - Vol 6

November 20, 2022

Articles

• English Media

  • Quoted in The Food Institute’s article about the impact of the looming diesel shortage and the rising diesel prices on farming and the food industry. Expect higher prices on both grains & perishables.

  • Quoted in article in International Business Times on the Xi-Biden meeting at G20, the impasse over Taiwan, and why without clarity on US foreign policy and willingness to defend Taiwan, Beijing will continue to press forward against Taipei.

• International Media 

  • Quoted in Indonesia’s The Online Citizen on the upcoming G20 Summit, which the country is hosting and on the growing economic, social, and political relations with China in the context of Jakarta looking to play a greater international role.

  • Quoted extensively in a must-read Independent Arabia article on Turkey’s potential rapprochement with Syria. I explain, alongside other experts, why Erdogan benefits from playing all sides, how Iran and Russia are working to bring Turkey into their camp, why it may be prudent for Ankara to follow a number of Arab states on the move to normalize Assad, and why the United States cannot count on Erdogan to stick to any particular course of action.

  • Quoted in an excellent in-depth article in Daraj Media on the sectarization of Baluchistan by the Iran regime. I discuss the aftermath of the Zahedan massacre, which killed almost 100 people in September, and the reasons for the civil unrest in the peripheral regions, in light of systematic oppression of non-Persian ethnicities, and how Iran is trying to redirect the popular outrage from the regime to these peoples.

  • My interview with Sky News Arabia about what happens now that Republicans have officially taken the House and what impact that will have on US governance and Joe Biden’s policies.
    
    

• Azerbaijani Media & South Caucasus issues

  • Quoted on who (or what) is behind the recent Iran tensions with Azerbaijan, and whether it is inevitable for an escalation to lead to a major conflict.

  • My comments about the French Senate Resolution calling for energy embargo on Azerbaijan for alleged “aggression” against Armenia and why that amounts to nothing more than virtue signaling.

  • My comments in Turkish media about Iran-Azerbaijan tensions, the arrest of an Iranian-backed spy & terrorist cell by Baku, and whether an open war will break out between the two countries.

TV and Podcast Appearances

• My interview on various national security criminal and civil cases, sanctions, and other government controversies on Freedom FM radio with Michael Levitis: “Irina Tsukerman, an attorney, provides a digest of recent criminal cases with implications for national security. In this video, she discusses the cases of people charged with breaking the Foreign Agents Registration Act, (FARA) and other newsworthy cases, including the acquittal of Trump's associate Tom Barrack. We also discuss indictments over Russian election meddling and sale of military technology and sanctioned Venezuelan oil to Russia, crypto exchanges in Russia circumventing sanctions,  Wagner's owner Yevgeny Prigozhin owning up to election meddling - and defending an ISIS-style execution video, the Biden administration asking banks not to enforce some sanctions on Russian financial institutions, and acquittals related to the Steele dossier.”

• On the sidelines of the ministerial conference NoMoneyForTerror in India, I got an opportunity to discuss Qatar’s financing of Terrorism and links to the Muslim Brotherhood and other state and non-state Islamist extremists on NewsX, along with Jordan Cope and Sarri Singer. I discussed methods of funding, new findings, and positive actions that need to be taken to counter these developments.

The Washington Outsider Report on The Coalition Radio Network

• Episode 64

Amazing discussion with Natan Sharansky! We talked about his recent meeting with President Zelensky, why Israel should be helping Ukraine with arms, Netanyahu’s security/diplomacy dilemma, Israel’s security concerns in Syria and beyond, and why Russian propaganda is not really working in Israel.