February, 2022

• 18 February

  Putin wycofuje się z grożenia wojną. „Geopolityka przegrywa ze strachem o własny tyłek”

  

  Rosyjski prezydent urządził na Kremlu widowisko, podczas którego ministrowie obrony i dyplomacji przekonywali go, by kontynuował rozmowy z Zachodem. Zmiana retoryki Kremla to kombinacja strachu przed zadzieraniem z Ukraińcami oraz sankcjami, które uderzyłyby w osobiste majątki rosyjskiej elity. Jest też nadzieja, że niemiecki kanclerz Olaf Scholz przywiezie we wtorek do …

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• 18 February

  France and EU to withdraw troops from Mali, remain in region

  France announced Thursday that it will no longer have troops in Mali by the summer amid tensions with the country’s ruling military junta, although Paris intends to maintain a military presence in neighboring West African nations. President Emmanuel Macron accused Mali’s authorities of neglecting the fight against Islamic extremists and …

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• 18 February

  The Altruistic USA always needs an enemy

  Since the Korean war, the USA could not pass a reasonable long time without at least one enemy, if not more, around the globe. It constantly finds a foe on the horizon. They can find or discover an adversary when needed and notably, they need it always! No need to …

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• 17 February

  Will Xi Jinping’s ‘End of Days’ Plunge China and the World into War?

  

  Xi Jinping, China’s mighty-looking leader, has an “enormous array of domestic enemies.” — Gregory Copley, president of the International Strategic Studies Association and editor-in-chief of Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, to Gatestone Institute, February 2022. Xi created that opposition. After becoming China’s ruler at the end of 2012, he …

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• 17 February

  Операция по принуждению России к войне провалилась

  

  Вчера, по меткому выражению официального представителя МИД России Марии Захаровой, информационное агентство Bloomberg “превратилось в тыкву, а те, кто его использовал для пропаганды войны, — в крыс”. Напомним, именно это агентство уже начинало “российское вторжение на Украину”. А затем анонсировало уже окончательное “нападение” на 15 февраля.Сегодня, 16 февраля, в такие …

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• 17 February

  The UAE, Saudi Arabia, US, and UK are Complicit in Committing War Crimes in Yemen

  

  I’ve previously written concerning [Yemen, The War That Should Have Never Been And How To Achieve Peace: Countercurrents: 13/02/2022] the fact the War in Yemen should never have occurred in the first place and the what and how required to achieve peace; either by dividing Yemen in two, North and …

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• 17 February

  In Ukraine, an Old War Enters a New Phase

  

  KYIV—Oleksandr Biletskyi is standing in a lecture hall on the outskirts of Kyiv laying out the items he considers most necessary to have on hand for emergencies. On the table in front of him, he’s placed a bag containing a compass, a pocketknife, a carabiner and a roll of tape. …

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• 17 February

  The U.S. Sanctions Toolkit Can No Longer Hold Off Global Challengers

  

  n Christmas Eve in 2002, I was suddenly dispatched from my base in Tokyo, where I was the New York Times bureau chief at the time, to Seoul, the capital of South Korea, to cover reports that North Korea was about to reactivate a nuclear reactor that had previously been …

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• 17 February

  Israel, Turkey sees cooperation in Central Asia – James M. Dorsey

  

  Turkey and Israel are not only seeking to repair their fractured bilateral relations, but see cooperation opportunities in Central Asia, said James M. Dorsey, a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and Middle East Institute in Singapore.

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• 17 February

  What happened to the Turkish lira? – Güven Sak

  

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is still insisting on false economic premises, including a theory that higher interest rates cause inflation; a policy stance that has led to sharp losses for the lira, said Güven Sak, a former member of the Monetary Policy Council of the Central Bank of Turkey. …

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