December, 2025

• 8 December

  Defying Trump, Israel Expands Buffer Zone in Syria

  

  Bottom Line Up Front Israel’s policy in Syria relies on hard power and control over territory rather than building an interrelated web of diplomatic alliances and coalitions to protect its interests. Israeli leaders are expanding a buffer zone in southern Syria even though U.S. officials warn that doing so might …

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• 8 December

  Hamas’s “Rigid Pragmatism”: Between Tactical Flexibility and Ideological Intransigence

  

  Gaza stabilization must include precise disarmament rules, independent monitoring, and pressure from Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey to counter Hamas’s blend of flexibility and intransigence. After the publication of President Donald Trump’s twenty-point plan, many were surprised to see Hamas relinquish some of its ostensibly nonnegotiable demands from the past two …

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• 8 December

  Major Anti-Government Protests Erupt Across Bulgaria

  

  Huge crowds took to the streets of the capital Sofia and other major cities on Monday night to protest against the governing coalition of centre-right populists GERB, the pro-Russia Bulgarian Socialist Party and nationalist party There’s Such a People, backed by tycoon Delyan Peevski’s New Beginning. The protests were some …

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• 8 December

  New Czech Government to Follow CEE Trend of Targeting NGOs

  

  Even before prime ministerial hopeful Andrej Babis submitted his proposed ministers to the president for approval on November 26, the coalition that the populist billionaire had put together following the October general election was already triggering street protests and prompting worries within Czech civil society. When the division of ministries …

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• 8 December

  Why Trump’s Gaza Plan is Not a Peace Deal

  

  In the eyes of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, the plan is nothing but another temporary ceasefire, not different than previous ones reached between Israel and Hamas over the past two decades. Those who think that Hamas, by agreeing to Trump’s “peace plan,” has abandoned its desire to eliminate …

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• 8 December

  Seizing the Initiative against Russia: Putting the United States in Control

  Introduction To deter and win future wars, America must be able to seize the initiative against any actor it may need to fight. Wars are rarely won through reactive approaches. Russia is on a trajectory toward protracting and expanding the current war. As long as the Kremlin perceives that it …

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• 8 December

  How Czech Pilots Flew For a Cocaine Cartel

  

  In the spring of 2019, a private jet landed at the airport near Basel. What looked like a routine flight turned into an international police operation: officers seized 600 kilograms of cocaine hidden in 21 suitcases. The trail of the smuggling network led to a Balkan drug cartel, Czech pilots, …

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• 8 December

  ‘Eurasia’s Geoeconomic Reshuffling’: The Multipolar Effect of the Nord Stream Explosion

  Since the mid-20th century, Russia and Europe have established a complementary and mutually beneficial relationship in the energy sector. Now, very few people remember, but when Putin came to power in 2000, one of the new president’s ideas was to strengthen Europe’s political independence by combining the continent’s technological and …

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• 8 December

  How Europe Migrates Towards Collapse

  In this analysis, I would like to demonstrate three points: Southern Europe is completely lacking in plans for managing immigration, both from sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb;The pro-European narrative promotes an unrealistic view that the European economy would benefit from immigration more than the middle and working classes would suffer …

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• 8 December

  The Architecture of Eurasian Security: An Iranian Perspective

  The rapidly evolving dynamics of global power and security have transformed Eurasia into a critical arena of competition and cooperation. The continent, spanning from the Atlantic to the Pacific, has become a focal point for major geopolitical shifts, particularly amid the waning dominance of Western-centric institutions and the rise of …

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