Eurasia Press & News
The exodus of 800,000 Ukrainian women of childbearing age to European Union nations since the war began has further compounded the problem. As Ukraine’s war against Russian forces rages on, the country is facing a critical shortage of young men to replenish its depleted military ranks – the result of …
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April, 2024
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12 April
Defense Express: Russia’s new Kh-69 cruise missiles, “worse than Kinzhal,” used in Trypilska power plant strike
Though its warhead is smaller and it is subsonic, the Kh-69 can be stealthily launched from small tactical jets According to Defense Express, Russia used its new Kh-69 cruise missiles to completely destroy the Trypilska thermal power plant, the most powerful power plant in Ukraine’s Kyiv Oblast, during the strike …
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12 April
Gagauzia Plans To Declare Independence If Moldova Pursues Unity With Romania – Analysis
Gagauzia, a small (140,000-strong) Christian Turkic and pro-Russian autonomous region in Moldova, is on its way to becoming a new hotspot in Eastern Europe that could trigger a direct confrontation between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A month ago, Yevgenia Gutsul, Gagauzia’s bashkan (head), met with Russian …
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12 April
Europe Needs More Funds For Defence As Wider War ‘No Longer A Fantasy’, Borrell Warns
A full-scale conflict in Europe is “no longer a fantasy” and Europeans must find new ways to financially prepare for a potentially wider war on the continent, the EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell warned on Tuesday (9 April). “War is certainly looming around us (…), and a high-intensity, conventional war …
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12 April
The Greater Middle East Is A Ticking Time Bomb – Analysis
The Greater Middle East is a ticking time bomb. Generations in war-wracked Palestine, Syria, and Yemen have little, if anything, to look forward to. Moreover, discontent is mounting and could explode anytime in countries like Jordan, Egypt, and Iran. Palestine is a pressure cooker. Gazan youth has known little else …
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12 April
Gaza War Ends: Will Biden Get A Nobel? – OpEd
Israel’s Damascus strike on April 1 will go down in the corpus of literature on war and diplomacy as an act of high-intensity deception. Iran wouldn’t have expected a cowardly attack using stealth fighters on its diplomatic compound. Israel’s a priori national deception practices provided no clues. But the asymmetry …
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12 April
Death By Algorithm: Israel’s AI War In Gaza – OpEd
Remorseless killing at the initiation of artificial intelligence has been the subject of nail-biting concern for various members of computer-digital cosmos. Be wary of such machines in war and their displacing potential regarding human will and agency. For all that, the advent of AI-driven, automated systems in war has already …
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12 April
Iran Update, April 10, 2024
Bloomberg reported on April 10 that Iran or its proxies may conduct missile or drone strikes targeting military and government facilities in Israel in the coming days in response to the April 1 Israeli airstrike that killed seven IRGC officials in Damascus.[i] Sources familiar with US and Israeli intelligence told …
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12 April
The Horrors Of Modern World – OpEd
The genocide of Palestinians is continuing. In Gaza, at least 33,037 Palestinians have been killed, including more than 13,000 children. Additionally, 8,000 children are missing. The total number of injured Palestinians amounts to 75,668, including 8,663 children. In the Occupied West Bank, at least 457 Palestinians are dead, including 117 …
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12 April
Two And A Half Wars: Ukraine, Israel, Kosovo – OpEd
There are two full-blown wars going on now. Both started much earlier but both broke out into hot wars recently. The Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, the Palestine-Israel war in 2023. The first, as a result of US-EU provocations in Ukraine, intent on pushing Russia to defend Russian Ukrainians in eastern …
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