Yearly Archives: 2024

Can Starmer Save Britain?

Why Labour’s Sweeping Victory May Not Reverse the Country’s Decline Although the polls had been predicting it for many months, the result of the United Kingdom’s July 4 general election was nonetheless stunning. This was the worst performance in the 190-year history of the Conservative Party. It lost almost half …

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Russia Carving A New Regional Security Architecture – OpEd

Most certainly, Russia’s final irreversible decision to suspend its membership and future participation in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly on July 3, on the eve of U.S. Independence Day, marked another significant chapter in its shifting geopolitical relations with United States and Europe. As …

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Germany Is Preparing To Assume Partial Responsibility For Poland’s Eastern Border Security

This represents the unprecedented expansion of Germany military influence in the post-World War II era, which is being advanced on a false anti-Russian pretext with full American backing. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s supporters had hitherto dismissed opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s claims of him being a “German agent” as a …

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Iran Update, July 4, 2024

Recent Iranian polls show that moderate Masoud Pezeshkian is leading over ultraconservative hardliner Saeed Jalili in the Iranian presidential race.[i] The runoff election will occur on July 5. The Iranian Students Polling Agency (ISPA) published a poll on July 4 showing that Pezeshkian has a 5.6 percent lead over Jalili.[ii] …

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Russia announces US air protocol violation over Syria

Russia announced that an American “Typhoon” fighter jet approached one of its aircraft “dangerously” over the skies of Syria, marking the first incident Russia has announced since halting air traffic coordination with the United States. The Deputy Head of the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria, Major General Yuri Popov, stated …

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The killing of top Iranian and Hezbollah operatives is a senseless carnage – or is it!?

There seems to be a hidden hand that pushes the players, and not anyone you would think of at first. Over the last few months, we are witnessing a long line of assassinations of mainly top operatives, allegedly performed by Israeli units, acting in Lebanon, Syria and Iran. This should …

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Is Macron’s gamble actually working? He has sacrificed France to stay in the game

A 10-second clip from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi has been doing the rounds on French social media. In it, a hooded, decaying Emperor Palpatine arrives on the “fully operational” Second Death Star, cackling “Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen”. It’s meant used to illustrate the destruction Macron …

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The true President of America’s Fifth Republic Obama, not Biden, is the nation’s new Lincoln

The fireworks in America this Fourth of July will be fuelled by the country’s imminent election, in which a convicted felon faces off against a doddering old man who is too senile to know that he isn’t really the President. The country’s elite would be glad if this were hyperbole; …

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The Dawn Of A New Era: The Role Of The Shanghai Cooperation Organization In Global Politics – OpEd

As the world witnesses the sunrise of a new era marked by significant economic shifts and emerging global political dynamics, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is poised to play a pivotal role. Understanding the SCO’s impact extends beyond a single column or article; it requires a comprehensive analysis of its …

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A Stronger NATO-EU Cooperation Against A ‘Permanent State Of Hybrid Warfare’ From Russia And Its Allies? The Special Case Of Energy Warfare – Analysis

The next NATO Summit will focus on Ukraine support and Allies defense spending, but military strategy always equals to ‘ends, ways, means’, meaning before the means you need to have clear ends and efficient ways. NATO has quite clear ends and improving means, but still lack efficient ways, to reach …

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