Eurasia

Ukraine and the Profits of War

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought immense suffering to the people of that land, while sparking calls for increased military spending in both the United States and Europe. Though that war may prove to be a tragedy for the world, one group is already benefiting from it: U.S. arms …

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11 Crucial Facts About the Ukraine War

The Ukraine War is one of the most significant and sad events of our times. In the middle of several conflicting claims and counter claims, 11 facts regarding this war stand out as the most crucial With thousands dead and over four million displaced within a few weeks, this war …

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France’s Election Shouldn’t Have Been This Close

How Macron Lost the Left Not so long ago, the war in Ukraine appeared to have made French President Emmanuel Macron a shoo-in for a second term. Polls showed that a majority of French voters trusted him to handle the crisis, and two weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded …

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Russians at War

Putin’s Aggression Has Turned a Nation Against Itself In early April, the coffin containing the body of 75-year-old Vladimir Zhirinovsky—the ultranationalist and populist who was a crucial pillar of the Russian state for two decades—was taken to the Hall of Columns in central Moscow for people to pay their respects. …

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Hayat Tahrir al-Sham organizes soccer league for fighters, angers Idlib jihadis

Commander of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s military wing Abu Hassan al-Hamwi sparked widespread controversy among rival jihadis in Idlib after attending the final game in the soccer league recently organized for HTS fighters. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which controls Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, is paying great attention to sports activities, …

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A França de Le Pen: da “onda azul” ao tsunami

Le Pen tem dialogado com os franceses que se abstêm por estarem insatisfeitos com a oferta política dos partidos tradicionais (agora pulverizados), afirmando-se como a candidata que consegue não só ouvir o cansaço coletivo pós-pandémico, mas, também, o desespero social dos perdedores da mundialização. Marine Le Pen é a oponente …

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Eight New Points on the Porcupine: More Ukrainian Lessons for Taiwan

Watching Russia falter in Ukraine, Chinese President Xi Jinping may conclude that if he decides to invade Taiwan, he cannot hope to achieve victory with little or limited fighting. The risk is that this will lead him to prepare a much bigger assault, deploying far heavier and more concentrated firepower …

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The Ukraine Temptation

Biden Should Resist Calls to Fight a New Cold War For three decades, U.S. foreign policy has run on inertia and called it strategy. The Cold War had ended, but the United States nonetheless retained its Cold War alliances. The Soviet Union had disappeared, but the absence of a major …

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America’s hypocrisy over Ukraine and ‘spheres of influence’

The Russian invasion of Ukraine “is in many ways bigger than Russia, it’s bigger than Ukraine,” State Department spokesman Ned Price recently declared. “There are principles that are at stake here … Each and every country has a sovereign right to determine its own foreign policy, has a sovereign right …

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