Eurasia Press & News

The Associated Press reports that many of the recruits drafted under Ukraine’s new conscription law lack the motivation and military indoctrination required to actually aim their weapons and fire at Russian soldiers. “Some people don’t want to shoot. They see the enemy in the firing position in trenches but don’t …

Finland sees the weaponization of migration as a form of hybrid warfare and has introduced legislation to combat it. No border, large or small, can be controlled without the cooperation of both sides. This is as true of the U.S.-Mexican border as it is of the Sino-Russian border. The management …

La visite officielle du président russe en Mongolie est fortement importante non seulement pour les relations bilatérales russo-mongoles, mais aussi pour tous les pays des BRICS et du Sud global, y compris sur le continent africain. La visite de Vladimir Poutine en Mongolie a bien eu lieu et revêt une …

Le régime de Zelensky vacille, démissions en masse dans son gouvernement dont celle choc du ministre ukrainien des Affaires étrangères : Kuleba. Zelensky doit changer la moitié du gouvernement. Nuit d’incendie : attaques russes sur Kiev et Lviv La nuit dernière a été une autre nuit de feu pour l’Ukraine. …

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending in August 2021, created favorable conditions for Russia to reassert itself as a regional hegemon in broader Central Asia. Historically, as great powers retrench from a territory, the resulting void can be filled either by rival powers or by friendly successor states responsive to …

In Western military thinking, air superiority has long been considered the key to victory. However, achieving complete dominance of the skies not only comes with excessively high costs but is also unrealistic, especially in a near-peer fight. It’s time to reconsider this assumption and focus on building an air force …

In July, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he would be open to hosting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a visit to Turkey. Normalization will not come easily or soon, but Erdoğan’s push for rapprochement is in itself remarkable. Given the intensity of Turkey’s commitment a decade ago to overthrowing …

In-depth: There are fears that Israel’s military raids in the West Bank, the largest in decades, are fuelled by plans to annex the Palestinian territory. For more than a week, Israeli forces have raided the Palestinian cities of Jenin, Tubas, and Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank – razing infrastructure, …

For many years now, Hezbollah has served as a major instrument of Iran to take over Lebanon, not only as a territory but as a sovereign state. Many Western countries would like to avoid that and invest in the former “Pearl of the Middle East”, led by France. These efforts …

Introduction Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 put an end to European security as a cooperative project. That project was grounded in the so-called Helsinki Decalogue, a declaration within the 1975 Helsinki Final Act that laid out agreed principles of conduct between the West and the Soviet bloc.1 …