Eurasia

Le bilan des va-t-en guerre européens est au point mort, l’Allemagne comme la France peine à financer leur quota de l’OTAN. La solution consiste à faire des coupes budgétaires sur les autres ministères pour atteindre le financement de 2% du PIB destiné à l’OTAN. Comment peut-on vouloir gagner une guerre …

Suite au retrait de l’armée israélienne de Khan Yunis, les dégâts observés sont considérables à Gaza. Images prises le 13 mars 2024.

Key Takeaways: Sahel. The Islamic State’s Sahel Province (ISSP) has established itself as a hub for foreign fighters, raising its transnational threat risk to Northwest Africa and Europe. ISSP and al Qaeda’s Sahelian affiliate have both taken advantage of an informal détente to improve their positions in the Burkinabe, Malian, …

Taxi driver Wesam Shaath has become used to scouring the street stalls and shops of the southern Gazan city of Rafah for diapers for his twin baby boys. Before the Israel-Hamas war erupted on October 7, 2023, he paid the equivalent of around $6 for a box. Now he says …

Israeli aircraft bombed a military site of the Syrian regime forces that it said was used as a launching pad for attacks carried out by the Lebanese militia Hezbollah in the province of Quneitra, southern Syria. The official account of the Israeli Air Force on platform “X” stated on Tuesday …

The frequency of qualitative “inghimasi” shock offensive operations carried out by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has increased during the past two weeks, after months of cessation, against the Syrian regime forces near the front lines between them. The operations came after several strikes by the regime on sites close to …

Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America. Great Britain confronted serious colonial crises …

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States imposed an unprecedented package of sanctions intended to make Russia pay a high economic cost for its aggression and to constrain the Russian military. U.S. President Joe Biden declared that Russia would “bear the consequences” for the invasion and emphasized that sanctions …

Executive Summary The United States is losing the war against an enemy it has misunderstood for decades. Al Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS), and the Salafi-jihadi groups that threaten the United States are stronger, smarter, and more resilient than they were on September 11, 2001. …

The Russian Autocrat’s Answer to the Problem of Succession In 2012, Vladimir Putin, after four years as prime minister, once again became Russia’s president. Many Russians resented his engineered return: before the 2012 presidential election, “Russia Without Putin” had been a popular sign at protest rallies. Their discontent had something …