March, 2025

• 12 March

  Du nouveau sur le sabotage de Nord Stream – immersion

  

  Une enquête inédite révèle de nouvelles preuves de l’implication potentielle de l’OTAN dans le sabotage du Nord Stream – soulignant le rôle occulté potentiellement joué par des sous-marins. Les gazoducs Nord Stream font actuellement de nouveau la une des journaux. Après que des rumeurs de reprise des gazoducs par les …

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• 12 March

  What is the value of US security guarantees? Here’s what history shows

  

  Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, argues that any US-organised peace agreement would have to be accompanied by “security guarantees” from the US to prevent Russia from resuming its offensive in the future. However, Donald Trump has so far said the US will not commit to sending troops to Ukraine if Russia …

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• 12 March

  What’s so special about Ukraine’s minerals? A geologist explains

  

  Ukraine’s minerals have become central to global geopolitics, with the US president, Donald Trump, seeking a deal with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to access them. But what are these minerals exactly and why are they so sought after? Ukraine is often recognised for its vast agricultural lands and industrial heritage, …

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• 12 March

  “The Cold War is becoming a reality before our eyes.” NATO officially declares Russia the main threat

  

  The report “NATO-2030”, presented in early December in Brussels, recognizes Russia as the main threat to the coming decade. The alliance is moving to a deterrence strategy characteristic of the Cold War. Military columnist Alexander Golts believes that the unity of the West is especially evident against the background of …

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• 12 March

  Operation “Iron Wall”: Similarity of procedures and intersection of goals between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

  

  Operation Iron Wall comes as an advanced episode of the war in the Gaza Strip, and part of the Israeli Prime Minister’s previous promises to redraw the features of the Middle East. This is evident through a series of Israeli measures aimed at re-engineering the Palestinian and Syrian geography, spatially …

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• 12 March

  Germany’s soft spot for Russia Business deals inform the nation’s politics

  

  Mounted atop a former warehouse in Hamburg’s industrial-era docklands, the billowing form of the Elbphilharmonie concert hall rises above Germany’s second-largest city like an ocean wave. The glass-panelled building crowns a new, forward-looking section of the city, a modern and elegant counterpoint to the seedy Reeperbahn nearby. Built with the …

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• 12 March

  Trump has Europe in check We have lost the art of strategy

  

  “And are we not guilty of offensive disparagement in calling chess a game? Is it not also a science and an art, hovering between those categories as Muhammad’s coffin hovered between heaven and earth, a unique link between pairs of opposites: ancient yet eternally new.” Once again, Stefan Zweig got …

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• 12 March

  No negotiations before total Iranian nuclear rollback

  

  Any talk of negotiating a new nuclear agreement—before Iran meets strict preconditions—is a dangerous mistake. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington marked an important moment in US-Israel relations. As the first foreign leader received by President Trump in this new phase of his presidency, Netanyahu was welcomed with …

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• 12 March

  Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 9, 2025

  

  Russian forces are collapsing the northern part of the Ukrainian salient in Kursk Oblast following several days of intensified Russian activity in the area. Geolocated footage published on March 8 indicates that Russian forces seized Novaya Sorochina (northwest of Sudzha), Malaya Loknya (just south of Novaya Sorochina), and Lebedevka (south …

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• 9 March

  Pakistan: Where Army Wields Power Sans Accountability – OpEd

  

  He may have said it out of conviction or perhaps to please Rawalpindi. But by demanding that former army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa “must be questioned about why he resettled these [Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP] militants,” Pakistan Defence Minister Khwaja Asif could well have unwittingly annoyed the top brass …

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