Yearly Archives: 2023

Ukraine’s Latest Paranoia About Russian Sleeper Cells Is Dividing Its Security Services

Zelensky himself set this divisive process into motion by recently warning that Russian agents are supposedly plotting to carry out a “Maidan 3” against him. Ukrainian National Security Council chief Alexey Danilov claimed that the Times of London misinterpreted his words when they quoted him as saying that the secret …

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Ukraine Is Bracing For A Possible Russian Counteroffensive By Fortifying The Entire Front

To summarize: 1) Ukraine is bracing for a Russian counteroffensive by fortifying the entire front; 2) that scenario could be averted, however, by freezing the conflict; 3) but Zelensky refuses to do so due to his messianic delusions of victory despite sobering up a bit lately; 4) A Russian breakthrough …

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Russia Is Waging an Existential Struggle in Defense of Its Independence & Sovereignty

Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine gives this civilization-state a chance to defend its independence and sovereignty that are under existential threat by the US-led West. In preserving his Great Power’s geostrategic existence, President Putin is actually attempting to retain some semblance of stability in the increasingly destabilized world that’s …

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La Russie se prépare à un nouveau monde

L’annonce vendredi par le président russe Vladimir Poutine qu’il se représentera pour un cinquième mandat n’a pas été une surprise. Le fait qu’il ait choisi l’occasion d’une cérémonie au Kremlin pour remettre les médailles de Héros de la Russie à des militaires ayant participé à l’opération militaire russe contre l’Ukraine …

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The tomb of Palestinian liberation

Ramallah is a dusty city built, you soon realise, around a fort. This is the Mukataa, or the “headquarters”, separated from the streets by walls and watchtowers. Mandate officials, Jordanian officers and the IDF have all been based here — running prisons, courts and successive occupations. Today, it is the …

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The Palestinian Nakba – Analysis

The origin and meaning of Nakba The Nakba, which means “catastrophe” or “disaster” in Arabic, refers to the exodus of Palestinians following the 1948 war between Israel, which had just proclaimed its independence after the end of the British mandate over Palestine, and a coalition of Arab countries. The concept …

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SAHEL – La force conjointe du G5 Sahel, une illusion franco-africaine?

La nouvelle force conjointe du G5 Sahel, dont l’opérationnalisation a été actée début juillet 2017, a suscité beaucoup d’espoir depuis sa création, dans la région du Sahel et au-delà. Mais elle semble en butte à nombre de difficultés qui pourraient nuire à son efficacité dans une région confrontée au terrorisme, …

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The Future of South Yemen: Will Conflicting Interests Collide?

For the last year, the media has been abuzz with rumors of Saudi Arabia’s impending withdrawal from Yemen. Many analysts have ascribed the normalization deal with Iran to the Saudi exist strategy from the conflict, which has cost the Kingdom tens of billions of dollars in humanitarian aid alone, let …

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Al Qaeda’s Growing Presence in Southern Yemen Is a Threat to the Regional Security Framework

The recent announcement of an assassination of the commander of the Security Belt forces (in South Yemen), Brigadier General Abdul Latif Al-Sayed, by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is yet another reminder that not only have the security and terrorism concerns in South Yemen have not been put to …

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Classic Intelligence Failure: The Impact Of Arrogance and Hubris

Over the past 80 years, there have been costly intelligence failures in the United States and Israel despite sufficient intelligence collection and the presence of classic warning signals. For the United States, the attacks on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 could have been prevented or ameliorated because we had deciphered …

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