Eurasia Press & News
French President Emmanuel Macron will receive Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for a “working dinner” in Paris on Thursday evening to discuss further EU aid for Ukraine despite continued strong opposition from Budapest. Like in March, Macron is hosting Orbán at the presidential palace to discuss several issues that will …
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December, 2023
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8 December
Bulgarian socialists accused of cobbling fake coalition
Two political parties expressed surprise and anger on Wednesday (6 December) when they learned they had been included in a coalition led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) without their knowledge. To increase its political influence in the EU’s poorest country, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), which is part of …
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6 December
Ukraine’s Political Intrigue Deepens As The SBU Alleges A Poroshenko-Orban-Russian Plot
After having crossed the Rubicon of implying that the same man who waged the first Donbass War is either a Russian agent or at least that country’s useful idiot, it’s anyone’s guess what happens next, but the past month’s precedent suggests that more drama is likely. Reuters reported over the …
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6 December
Putin’s Weak Link to Crimea
Kyiv Should Target the Kerch Bridge—but Needs Missiles to Take It Out When Russia annexed Crimea in February 2014, the peninsula became crucial to Moscow’s strategy to dominate Ukraine and the Black Sea region. Critical to that domination is the bridge spanning the Kerch Strait, the narrow strip of water …
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6 December
Gaza and the Future of Information Warfare
The Digital Front of the Israel-Hamas Conflict Is a Preview of Fights to Come The Israel-Hamas war began in the early hours of Saturday, October 7, when Hamas militants and their affiliates stole over the Gazan-Israeli border by tunnel, truck, and hang glider, killed 1,200 people, and abducted over 200 …
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6 December
We Can Have Either Billionaires or Democracy. Not Both.
As we count down toward the 2024 general election, we should expect to hear from media pundits about candidates and their viability, swing states and the electoral college, likely voters and poll results, and much more. Occasionally we may hear about some issues of importance. Most likely, we will hear …
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6 December
Richard Falk on Kissinger’s Foreign Policy
International relations scholar Richard Falk once summarized Christopher Hitchen’s The Trial of Henry Kissinger (2001). Falk reminded readers that Hitchens listed six major crimes carried out by Kissinger: 1) The deliberate mass killing of the civilian population in Indochina. 2) Deliberate collusion in mass murder, and later in assassination in …
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6 December
Kissinger: “The World’s Most Dangerous Man”
After the New York Times begn publishing “The Pentagon Papers” on June 13, 1971, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger told President Richard M. Nixon that Daniel Ellsberg was “the most dangerous man in America and that he must be stopped at all costs.” Nixon was not inclined to seek legal …
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6 December
Israel Enters Hamas Stronghold in Gaza’s South
Latest Developments Israeli forces entered Khan Younis — the largest city in southern Gaza — on December 5 after several days of intensified shelling of Hamas targets. The head of the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, said that IDF troops are engaged in the “most …
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6 December
La cause de toutes les guerres est l’industrie de la défense des États-Unis
Les ventes des entreprises d’armes américaines ont chuté, malgré de grands conflits internationaux. Washington veut aider – et commence de nouveaux conflits. Un nouveau rapport de l’Institut de recherche pour la paix de Stockholm (SIPRI) a révélé des chiffres désagréables pour les entreprises militaires américaines. Non seulement le chiffre d’affaires …
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