Eurasia

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 …

Long denied by Western allies, Ukraine has received a new long-range missile system from the United Kingdom, which is working with the Netherlands to procure F-16s on Ukraine’s behalf. The Storm Shadow cruise missile’s 300-kilometer range enables Ukraine to strike deep into Russian-controlled territory, placing the Russian Black Sea fleet’s …

With police brutality in the form of truncheons and spraying of tear gas in the eyes, the newly elected mayors of three municipalities in the northern part of Kosovo entered the buildings where they are supposed to establish their offices. Zubin Potok, Leposavić, Zvečan were the scene of unrest on …

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, announced last night that he is stepping down from the leadership of the SNS, and Miloš Vučević , the current Minister of Defense, was elected as the new leader of the progressive party on Saturday. At the same time, Vučić announced the establishment of …