Eurasia

It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia

The cost-benefit analysis of US support for Ukraine is incontrovertible. It’s producing wins at almost every level. Former President Trump, and others in the US including some Democrats as well as Republicans, have criticized continued US support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. They have called for military and …

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The energy apocalypse that wasn’t. Where the Kremlin miscalculated

By the beginning of November, EU countries had accumulated more than 100 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas. Underground storage across Europe was filled at an average of 94.68%. In Germany, the largest consumer of gas on the continent, storage reached 98.52%. At the same time, the spot price on …

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Qatar’s Double Game: Funding Islamists While Pretending to Be America’s Ally

Hamas leaders [who have relocated to Doha]… are using Qatar as a base for calling for the destruction of Israel. Yet this does not seem to bother the rulers of Qatar or its allies in the West, including the US. This is the same Qatar whose leaders claim that they …

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Comment Larry Fink et Blackrock ont créé la crise énergétique mondiale

La plupart des gens sont déconcertés face à ce qui ressemble à une crise énergétique mondiale : avec des prix du pétrole, du gaz et du charbon qui montent en flèche simultanément, et qui forcent même la fermeture de grandes usines industrielles telles que la chimie, l’aluminium ou l’acier. L’Administration …

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From Fortress Europe to Turkey, Racist Hostility Awaits Syrian Refugees

Human Rights Watch recently released a disturbing report detailing the involuntary deportation of hundreds of Syrian refugees from Turkey back into the proverbial lion’s den of Assad’s Syria. For those who continue to chronicle the Syrian genocide unleashed by Assad, Iran and Russia on the Syrian people after a popular …

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Reinforcements Reach Syria’s Daraa to Counter ISIS Amid Curfew

New military reinforcements reached on Monday to the city of Daraa, south Syria, in preparation for a military campaign by local gunmen against Islamic State Organization (ISIS). The military reinforcements included dozens of vehicles loaded with machine guns and members affiliated with the Syrian government’s military intelligence. A local source …

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Iran’s Raisi Stresses Need to Full Implement Agreements with Syria

During a meeting with the Syrian Foreign Minister held on Wednesday in Tehran, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stressed the need to fully implement agreements between Iran and Syria. Raisi said that Syria, following several years of crisis, is in a position today that enables it to enter its strategic relations …

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Recap: Turkey Reorganizing National Army Factions

Following violent fighting between opposition groups in Afrin in October, Turkey has begun reorganizing the National army factions. In this context, leaders of Syrian National Army factions held a meeting in Turkey on Wednesday to unite the ranks under one command. Turkey Warns Opposition Factions Sources revealed to Baladi News …

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Turkey Launches Retaliatory Airstrikes on Kurdish Targets in Syria, Iraq

Turkey carried out airstrikes against what it said are bases for armed Kurdish groups in northern Syria and Iraq, claiming that they were used as a base for attacks on Turkey, including the explosion at a popular pedestrian mall in downtown Istanbul last weekend that left six dead and dozens …

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Iran’s Nuclear Chief Condemns IAEA Resolution, Vows Firm Response

The president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, condemned a draft resolution proposed by the United States, Britain, France and Germany that was passed late last week by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors, that calls on Iran to cooperate with the IAEA’s investigators …

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