Written by  The Saker ; Originally appeared at  The Unz Review The year 2018 will go down in history as a turning point in the evolution of the geostrategic environment of our planet.  There are many reasons for that and I won’t list them all, but here are some of the ones which I personally consider the most important ones: The Empire blinked.  Several times. This is probably the single most important development of the year: the AngloZionist Empire issued all sorts of scary threats, and took some even scarier actual steps, but eventually it had to back down.  In fact, the Empire is in retreat on many fronts, but I will only list a few crucial ones: The DPRK: remember all the grandiose threats made by Trump and his Neocon handlers?  The Administration went as far as announcing that it would send as many as  THREE(!) nuclear aircraft carrier strike groups to the waters off the DRPK  while Trump threatened to  “totally destroy” North Korea .  Eventually, the South Koreans de

Click to see the full-size image A spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces released a summary of operations of the Yemeni Army and Ansar Allah (the Houthis) in 2018. According to the report, Yemeni forces carried out 689 operations against the Saudi-led coalition across the country and fired 131 missiles at targets belonging to Saudi-led forces. It should be noted that Yemeni forces carried out 6 naval operations against ships of the coalition. Furthermore, Ansar Allah and its allies reportedly shot down 42 UAVs and destroyed 590 vehicles belonging to the coalition-led forces. Click to see the full-size image