January, 2022

• 6 January

  Erdogan’s Weaponization of Religion Is Losing Its Edge

  

  For more than three months, Turkey has been rocked by rolling protests centered in Istanbul. Following President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s controversial appointment of businessman Melih Bulu as the new rector of Bogazici University in January, students and professors began holding rallies to denounce the pick. They see Bulu as an …

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• 6 January

  The Global North Is Closing Its Doors to Migration

  

  In July, British Home Secretary Priti Patel announced that the U.K. had agreed to pay France roughly $72 million to fund border personnel and equipment that would be used to stop asylum-seekers from crossing the English Channel. The deal came amid a dramatic rise in the number of channel crossings. …

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• 6 January

  NATO-Russia Talks Set On Moscow’s Ukraine Border Troop Buildup

  

  NATO said Tuesday that Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has scheduled a meeting next week between Western ambassadors and Russian officials to try to defuse tensions over Moscow’s troop buildup along Ukraine’s eastern border with Russia. The NATO-Russia Council meeting is set for January 12 in Brussels, two days after U.S. and …

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• 6 January

  Warfare Evolved: Drone Swarms – Analysis

  

  Unmanned systems with a variable degree of autonomy, generally known as ‘drones,’ have become commonplace in the world’s advanced militaries. In their various aerial, maritime, and ground forms, these vehicles are used to perform a wide spectrum of roles. Yet advances in new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, …

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• 6 January

  Streit gehört dazu

  

  EU-Befürworter:innen, die Atomkraft ablehnen, bringt die Idee einer klimafreundlichen Atomenergie in ein Dilemma. Der Kampf muss weitergehen. Es ist ein echter Schuss vor den Bug von Grünen. Ausgerechnet die hierzulande größten Fans des europäischen Projekts müssen nun wegstecken, dass ihre geliebte Europäische Union der Atomkraft ein formidables Greenwashing verpasst. Die …

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• 6 January

  BHL – Drapeau européen sous l’Arc de Triomphe : les deux étendards

  

  BLOC-NOTES. Le drapeau européen n’efface ni ne parjure rien, rappelle le philosophe à ceux qui s’indignaient de le voir flotter sous l’Arc de Triomphe. Que s’est-il passé, au juste ? La France se prépare, comme il advient tous les treize ans, à la présidence tournante du Conseil de l’Union européenne. …

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• 6 January

  Iran believes that maneuvering missiles, drones will evade air defense

  

  Iran’s interest is in learning from Chinese military technology. The Islamic Republic is seeking to improve its missile and drone capability to tap into the latest technology from Russia and China and learn how to get around the latest air-defense systems, according to Iranian military analysts who were cited in …

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• 6 January

  Iran nuclear agreement better for Israel than no deal – IDF intel head

  

  IDF intelligence chief Aharon Haliva said that the restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program within the framework of the Iran deal are better for Israel than non-compliance with the agreement. A return to the JCPOA – otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal – is better for Israel than a situation …

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• 6 January

  Fateful Mossad, IDF war over Iran nukes continues – analysis

  

  The disagreement between IDF Intelligence Chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva and Mossad Director David Barnea seems remarkable, but in fact, is just another round of the debate. The fateful war of words between the Mossad and Israeli Military Intelligence continued this week, with ministers leaking their classified contrary views on …

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• 6 January

  Denying the Inevitable: Why the West Refuses to Accept China’s Superpower Status

  

  An article by Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times last July is a prime example of western intelligentsia’s limited understanding of China’s unhindered rise as a superpower. “Becoming a superpower is a complicated business. It poses a series of connected questions about capabilities, intentions and will,” Rachman wrote. To help …

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