October, 2024

• 24 October

  Mysterious cross-border influence campaign sparks election controversy in Moldova

  

  On October 20, 2024, the Republic of Moldova will hold an election which could reshape its future. Moldovans will not only elect a new head of state but also vote in a constitutional referendum that will determine the country’s path toward European Union (EU) membership. Since Russia’s February 2022 invasion …

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• 24 October

  A Strategy For Regime Change In Iran: The Roadmap Toward Confederalism

  

  Israel’s imminent strike on Iran, in response to the Iranian ballistic attack on the first of October, could be an opportunity for the peoples of Iran to rise up against the Islamic regime. However, the key for any “regime change” in Iran is in its ethnic “minorities” that have been …

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• 24 October

  CPJ denounces Israel’s smearing of killed Palestinian journalists with unsubstantiated ‘terrorist’ labels

  

  The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Israel to stop making unproven claims that journalists slain by its forces are terrorists or engaging in militant activity, and demands international, swift, and independent investigations into these killings. “Even before the start of the Israel-Gaza war, CPJ had documented Israel’s pattern of …

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• 24 October

  Le Sommet de Kazan : le point culminant de la présidence russe des BRICS

  

  Aujourd’hui à Kazan commence la 16ème réunion des chefs d’État des BRICS. L’année de la présidence russe dans l’association peut déjà être appelée, contrairement à tous les précédents, une nouvelle étape du développement du club.Qui d’autre sera ? La réunion sous la présidence russe promet d’être la plus représentative de …

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• 24 October

  Can the United Nations Be Saved?

  The Case for Getting Back to Basics The quest to fix the United Nations is almost as old as the organization itself. Eighty years ago, Allied leaders imagined a postwar order in which the great powers would together safeguard a permanent peace. The Security Council, dominated by its five veto-wielding …

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• 24 October

  The Return of Total War

  

  Understanding—and Preparing for—a New Era of Comprehensive Conflict Every age had its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions, and its own peculiar preconceptions,” the defense theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote in the early nineteenth century. There is no doubt that Clausewitz was right. And yet it is surprisingly …

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• 24 October

  Théorie de l’arc de crise : géopolitique et géostratégie

  

  Les deux guerres en cours ont des origines différentes et lointaines. Les causes de la guerre russo-ukrainienne, si l’on se limite au contexte régional, remontent aux émeutes de l’Euromaïdan de novembre il y a dix ans, à l’annexion ultérieure de la Crimée par la Russie, aux politiques anti-russophones mises en …

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• 24 October

  West’s Political Elites Mourn the Death of a Terrorist Group

  

  [T]he West’s political “elites” condemned Israel for defending itself by targeting Hezbollah’s leadership. There was no mention of international law for Hezbollah’s unprovoked, year-long attacks: bombardments of missiles and attack drones every day at a country smaller than New Jersey. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell lamented Israel’s continued successful …

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• 24 October

  On the Ukraine-South East Europe Summit

  

  On October 9, 2024, the Croatian city of Dubrovnik hosted the latest summit of the leaders of 12 Western Balkans states with the participation of the illegitimate president. Croatian Prime Minister is following orders from his handlers in Washington and BrusselsLike the two previous meetings – in Athens in 2022 …

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• 24 October

  Germany was the engine of Europe because it used Russian fuel

  

  The question now hangs in the air: will Berlin reconsider its role with Russia, or let the engine seize up? Recently, an important Brazilian geopolitical channel invited me to shed some light on the political situation in Europe and especially in Germany. Since I’ve been in Berlin, I’ve also been …

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