Eurasia

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of long-range missiles, rockets and launchers to Poland in a deal valued at up to $10 billion, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. Poland has been on a spending spree to modernize its military while simultaneously donating older weapons to its neighbor …

Iran on Tuesday revealed an underground air force base, called “Eagle 44” and the first of its kind large enough to house fighter jets, Reuters quoted official IRNA news agency said. The “Eagle 44” base is capable of storing and operating fighter jets and drones, IRNA said. The report did …

Netanyahu’s Latest Reforms Come Straight From the Autocrat’s Playbook After winning an unexpectedly large electoral victory in November 2022, Benjamin Netanyahu went on to form the most right-wing government in Israel’s history. Its ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox members don’t agree on everything, but they are united on one objective: weakening Israel’s …

Timelessness of thought and vision in world politics is a rare mark of grandeur. Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, written a century ago, deserves this distinction as it reads like it was done yesterday. The German historian-philosopher wrote in 1922 that the centuries old West-European-American civilization was in …

Rasprava o amandmanima na set pravosudnih zakona nastavljena je u istom maniru kao i prethodnog dana. Opoziciju je zanimalo da li su izglađeni odnosi između socijalista i naprednjaka, ko je dozvolio snimanje Zvonimira Stevića sa balkona, ko su špijuni na koje je predsednik Vučić mislio ovih dana. „Vi ste poput …

Why It Lacks Resilience, And What Will Take Its Place. The greatest challenge facing societies has always been how to conduct trade and credit without letting merchants and creditors make money by exploiting their customers and debtors. All antiquity recognized that the drive to acquire money is addictive and indeed …

The conflict in Ukraine has already exposed the double standards of the so-called western notion of “International Community” that means primarily the western nations with genocidal imperial past. The term ‘international community’ was first coined at the congress of Vienna in 1815, which marked the end of Napoleonic wars in …

The paired concept of “Iran” and “Turan” has undergone many modifications in history. Its classical use is associated with the medieval Persian epic, in particular, with Firdausi, where “Iran” was understood as a state of sedentary farmers, and “Turan” as a world of nomads of Central Asia (in antiquity—Iranian-speaking, and …

The phase transition from unipolarity to multipolarity and the three concepts To understand the fundamental transformations of the world order taking place before our eyes, and above all the transition from a unipolar (globalist) model to a multipolar one, different conceptual units and methods can be used. They should gradually …

Prisoners mutinied in a northwestern Syria prison Monday following a deadly earthquake, with at least 20 escaping the jail holding mostly Islamic State group members, a source at the facility told AFP. The military police prison in the town of Rajo near the Turkish border holds about 2,000 inmates, with …