Eurasia

Armenia Is Ready to Relinquish Nagorno-Karabakh: What Next?

Relations with Russia will have to be overhauled, since the main subject of discussion—Karabakh—will disappear. For most Armenians, the Kremlin will be seen as an unreliable ally that abandoned them in their hour of need. A turning point has been reached in the long-running conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Last …

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Russia’s Database of Draft Dodgers Will Only Cause More Chaos

The main obstacle to the creation of a planned digital database of Russians eligible for military service is not the technology required, but the struggle between various agencies for control of this powerful new tool. Controversial new amendments to Russia’s law on military conscription promise to radically alter the relationship …

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Politicized Intelligence Community: Danger to a Democracy

Teixeira, if convicted, is facing a lengthy prison sentence. Morrell, meanwhile, remains an esteemed national security figure who has members of the press defending his actions, even though they had an impact on the last election. Beyond Morrell, none of the other signatories of the letter has suffered any negative …

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Neturei Karta (NK) and Masar Badil in Ottawa: “Free, Free Palestine from the river to the sea”

I’ve seen them often in the United States at protest rallies organized by pro-Palestine groups against Israel — in Washington DC, in New York. Yesterday in Ottawa, they led Masar Badil — The Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (masarbadil.org)’s May Day Liberation March. They are members of Neturei Karta (NK), an international ultra-Orthodox Jewish …

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Withdraw Foreign Forces From Syria, Arab States Call

The foreign ministers of Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq said on Monday after meeting in Amman said the government in Damascus should re-establish the rule of law on all of Syria’s territory, ending the presence of foreign armed groups and terrorists,. Jordan hosted the meeting, the first of …

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Ukraine War Shifts to Economic Warfare

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, realized early, in his country’s invasion of Ukraine, that adversaries do not always fight wars on a battlefield. The realization that Russian military superiority could not easily overcome Ukraine’s moral superiority and its defensive capabilities succeeded the recognition by Ukraine’s NATO allies that Russia could not …

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The Concept And The Causes Of War

There are many definitions and/or understandings of war. However, from the very academic point of view, war can be understood as an armed conflict between at least two sides usually but not necessarily states fought usually for some (geo)political goals. The focal conceptual idea of war is the use of …

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The Coming War: Speak Up, Now

In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war. They were electric …

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The president is allergic to any idea of ​​uniting the opposition: Will and how will Vučić’s political engineering work to split the right?

The president of the SNS, who also serves as the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, is generally allergic to any idea of ​​uniting the opposition, and this is one of the few things that worry and scare him. With the fact that now the situation is partly even more unpleasant …

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Hezbollah behind roadside bomb in Israel last month, Israeli official says

Lebanon’s Hezbollah was behind a rare roadside bomb attack last month that wounded a motorist in northern Israel, Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said on Friday. Israel’s military said that security forces had killed a man carrying an explosive belt after he apparently crossed from Lebanon into Israel and …

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