Eurasia

La tension inhérente et l’absence d’échanges véritables sont pires que pendant la guerre froide, lorsque les canaux de communication restaient ouverts. Les relations entre les États-Unis et la Russie sont au plus bas ; la situation est même pire que ce que l’on pouvait imaginer. En discutant avec de hauts …

Summary:The nationalist-imperialist worldview that the Putin regime is imposing on Russians is intended to feed on the past and exploit historical memories and concepts to reshape and manage the mass consciousness of the Russian people. The war in Ukraine created an entirely new political reality for the Kremlin and prompted …

Following the October 7 Hamas attacks, residents along Israel’s northern border grow increasingly anxious over the possibility of a similar assault by Hezbollah. Gil Sagi is an Israeli dairy farmer living on a kibbutz in northern Israel. Since the beginning of Israel’s war with Hamas, his community, along with others, …

Hassan Ali Daqduq, the son of senior Hezbollah commander Musa Ali Daqduq, was killed in a recent Israeli airstrike in Syria’s Quneitra governorate, according to reports. The elder Daqduq was tasked by Iran and Hezbollah to establish militias in Iraq along the lines of Lebanese Hezbollah. He was successful in …

The Strategy That Led to the War—and What It Means for the Future Among the many striking aspects of Hamas’s October 7 attack against Israel, one that has received relatively little scrutiny is the location. For much of the past decade, the Gaza Strip no longer appeared to be a …

“We built the tunnels to protect ourselves from airplanes … the refugees, the UN is responsible for protecting them.” The now infamous statement by Musa Abu Marzuk of Hamas, in a television interview of October 2023, illustrates a severe problem that has developed in the interplay between humanitarian aid and …

I’ll be the first to admit that two of the main themes on this blog – the United States’ sovereign debt crisis and the deterioration of the petrodollar – have been extraordinarily slow-moving theses. In both cases, there have been developments that stand at odds with my contentions. For example, …

The combat arena: Fighting continues in the northern and southern Gaza Strip. IntegratedIDF forces continued to expand their presence in the area, attacking hundreds of Hamasterrorist targets. The local media reported fierce fighting and the surrender of dozens ofGazans. Senior Hamas terrorists claimed they had the upper hand, were successfullycombatting …

Gaza was among the main topics on the agenda of Russian President Vladimir Putin as he arrived in the Middle East region on Wednesday, December 6. Some news reports referred to the trip as ‘rare’, especially since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022. We know that the …

AI is a broad term that refers to the ability of machines or software to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence such as perception, reasoning, learning, decision making and problem solving. AI has many applications and implications for modern warfare, both on and off the battlefield. Here, we will …