December, 2025

• 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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• 8 December

  What Makes Europe the Enemy of the World

  Few relatively knowledgeable observers of international relations doubt that Europe today once again poses the greatest threat to peace. This fact is especially depressing, given that virtually the entire experience of world politics since World War II has been aimed at creating reliable ways to prevent a repetition of the …

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• 8 December

  The Critical-Minerals Race Is Putting the Planet at Risk

  

  BERLIN – The environmental and human toll of mineral extraction is becoming clearer – and more alarming – by the day. Roughly 60% of Ghana’s waterways are now heavily polluted due to gold mining along riverbanks. In Peru, many communities have lost access to safe drinking water after environmental protections …

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• 8 December

  Experts react: What Trump’s National Security Strategy means for US foreign policy

  

  The Trump 2.0 worldview is now on paper for the world to see. Late Thursday, the Trump administration released its National Security Strategy (NSS), a twenty-nine-page document outlining its principles and priorities for US foreign policy. The document articulates what US strategy is—for example, a focus on the Western Hemisphere …

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• 8 December

  Oil from Northern Iraq Arrives in the United States After Pipeline Reopens

  

  In addition to providing discounted crude of a quality desired by American refiners, the resumption of oil flows via the ITP is already showing promise of furthering U.S. policy toward partners and adversaries alike. On November 24—two months after the reopening of the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline (ITP)—an oil tanker laden with …

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• 8 December

  Iran Update, December 5, 2025

  

  Toplines Former senior Assad regime officials are likely funding and equipping clandestine networks in Syria to conduct insurgent activity against the Syrian transitional government. Reuters reported on December 5 that former Military Intelligence Chief Major General Kamal Hassan and Bashar al Assad’s cousin, Rami Makhlouf, have formed rival Alawite militias …

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• 8 December

  Iran Update, December 3, 2025

  

  Toplines Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Harakat Hezbollah al Nujaba head Akram al Kaabi threatened on December 3 to attack US Special Envoy to Iraq Mark Savaya in response to Savaya’s “blatant interference in Iraqi affairs.”[1] Iranian-backed Iraqi militias are unlikely to attack Savaya due to the potential repercussions that such an …

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