Eurasia Press & News
Budapest has long played up issues surrounding the 150,000-strong Hungarian minority in Ukraine and other Hungarian minorities across Eastern Europe to mobilize nationalist support at home and to advance its foreign policy goals (see EDM, June 3, 2020). No Hungarian leader has done so more openly and vigorously than current …
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July, 2024
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1 July
US Warns Israeli Offensive In Lebanon Could Bring Wider War, Draw In Iran
U.S. and European officials are warning of the possibility of the war in Gaza expanding, with the prospect of an Israeli offensive in Lebanon against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group. European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters Monday in Luxembourg that the risk of the war spilling over …
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1 July
Tracing Tehran’s Regional Strategic Policy Post October 7 Attack – Analysis
While addressing the Islamic governments on October 3 2023, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned leaders against normalising their relations with Israel, equating all initiatives to betting on a losing horse. Meagre days after his address to the Islamic governments, Hamas fighters infiltrated Israeli territories, culminating in an ongoing …
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1 July
Daghestan Attacks: What Happened And Why – Analysis
Details are still emerging about the June 23 violence in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Daghestan. At least 20 people were killed, including 15 police officers, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee, when gunmen attacked a synagogue, two Russian Orthodox churches, and police targets in the regional capital, Makhachkala, and the …
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1 July
The War On Terror Is Still Hamstringing US Foreign Policy – OpEd
In 2001, after the horrific 9/11 attacks, an apoplectic George W. Bush administration ignored Congress’s narrow authorization to use military force against the perpetrators of the attacks and those who harbored them. Instead, it launched a grandiose global war on terror much broader than those wisely limited legislative instructions. Congress’s …
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1 July
The “EU Defense Line” Is The Latest Euphemism For The New Iron Curtain
The whole point of rebranding what was first conceptualized as the “Baltic Defense Line” is to market this project as an inclusive pan-European one that’s supposedly being built for the “greater good” of the bloc’s citizens. Poland and the Baltic States just requested EU funding to finance what they now …
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1 July
Interpreting Lavrov’s Latest Insight Into Indian Geopolitics
Lavrov was directly asked to share his opinion about the observation that “India is now leaning more towards the US”, which his interlocutor provocatively added is now even an opinion among some in Russia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shared some detailed insight into Indian geopolitics during Wednesday’s Primakov Readings, …
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1 July
Green Peace
How the Fight Against Climate Change Can Overcome Geopolitical Discord The clean energy transition has reached adolescence. Its future direction is not yet set, and in the meantime, its internal paradoxes make for a volatile mix. Political leaders fret that ambitious steps to address climate change will aggravate geopolitical problems …
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1 July
The Futility of a Lebanon War
Israel has no military options that could achieve a better result than a negotiated solution or a return to the status quo. As tensions have risen in the border area between Lebanon and Israel, many observers are predicting that Hezbollah and the Israeli military will soon be at war. On …
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1 July
Turkey’s Erdogan warns Israel against Lebanon war, calls Netanyahu ‘mentally ill’
The Turkish president’s comments have reignited the war of words between Turkey and Israel. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said Israel has set its eyes on Lebanon as he accused some Western powers of supporting the Israeli government’s plans to expand the war in Gaza. “Israel, which devastated …
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