Ongoing violence between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has raised concerns about the possible ramifications for Libya, both politically and in terms of the country’s fragile security situation. Observers are particularly concerned about how the fighting could affect the issue of foreign fighters and mercenaries in …

Atatürkism… tried to reinvent Turkey’s identity as a modern state claiming Hittite and Celtic roots, distancing itself from the “decadent Orient” and hoping to regain its proper place in the family of European nations. More importantly, Atatürk introduced the concept of secularism, using the French term laïcité, to end the …

[M]edia polling from Harvard-Harris showing that Americans hold almost diametrically opposing viewpoints from those that news corporations predominantly broadcast as the official “truth.” Americans have correctly concluded that [with the “Russia Hoax” and suppressing reported influence peddling in Hunter Biden’s laptop ] journalists and spies advanced a “fraud” on voters …

How Putin Exploits American Dysfunction and Fuels American Decline Donald Trump wanted his July 2018 meeting in Helsinki with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to evoke memories of the momentous encounters that took place in the 1980s between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Those arms control …

La mission du Forum économique mondial (World Economic Forum, WEF) est remarquablement simple : le gouvernement mondial doit être confié aux meilleurs et aux plus intelligents. En langage WEF, un schéma de supervision totale et de modification du comportement créera un avenir «durable» pour l’humanité. Les humains sont perçus comme …

Nous savons aujourd’hui beaucoup de choses sur les crimes qu’il a commis quand il était en fonction, qu’il s’agisse d’aider Nixon à faire échouer les négociations de paix de Paris et à prolonger la guerre du Viêt Nam, ou de donner son feu vert à l’invasion du Cambodge et au …

Le président Xi Jinping a déclaré au président Poutine, à la fin de leur sommet en mars dernier à Moscou, que nous sommes maintenant confrontés à «de grands changements jamais vus depuis un siècle», ce qui s’applique directement au nouvel esprit qui règne dans le Heartland. Le sommet Chine-Asie centrale …

As peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan continue, Baku has opened a checkpoint on the Lachin corridor, the sole road connecting Armenia to the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, raising fears of a new surge in fighting. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts discuss the risks. What is happening? There is a growing …

Since 2021, the Biden Administration has been cozying up to Iran in a way that has often seemed agonizingly embarrassing to entice it back to the disastrous 2015 “JCPOA” nuclear deal of the Obama Administration. Mercifully those efforts did not succeed: the new deal would still most likely have enabled …