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Russian Weakness And The Russian ‘Threat’ To The West

The current advocates for US aggression against Russia would have us believe that Russia is some sort of peer of the United States and of Western Europe. Tom Rogan at the hawkish Washington Examiner, for example, insists that Russia is a “great power,” presumably comparable to the United States in …

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Neutrality For Taiwan? Why It Remains An Option

The entry of the Taiwanese delegation in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4 served again as a reminder of the largest dilemma plaguing international relations in East Asia today. As the Guardian aptly reported, its “athletes had to march under a banner saying Chinese Taipei …

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Pakistan’s Taliban Plans

Pakistan’s Taliban movement, led by its most vicious and largest group, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and apparently buoyed by the recent triumph of their ethnic Pashtun cousins in Afghanistan, is revitalizing its strategy either for regional autonomy or to overthrow Pakistan’s government and replace it with an Islamic Emirate of Pakistan …

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Kommentti: Ukrainan sota on Putinin sota – tehtiinkö päätös sen aloittamisesta jo joulukuussa?

Venäjän presidentti ajoi johdonmukaisesti tilanteen tähän, kirjoittaa Ilta-Sanomien ulkomaanuutisten tuottaja Jari Alenius. Euroopassa soditaan, eikä tällä kertaa ole kyseessä mikään paikallinen etninen teurastus, vaan suurvaltapolitiikkaan kytkeytyvä, maanosan kahden pinta-alaltaan suurimman maan välienselvittely. Vakavin sitten toisen maailmansodan. Sen kaikkia seurauksia on vielä mahdoton arvailla, mutta se järisyttää Euroopan turvallisuusrakenteita ja romuttaa …

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Cyberattacks accompany Russian military assault on Ukraine

Cyberattacks against Ukrainian government websites and affiliated organizations added to the confusion of Russia’s military assault Thursday, including data-wiping malware activated a day earlier that cybersecurity researchers said infected hundreds of computers including in neighboring Latvia and Lithuania. Researchers said the malware attack had apparently been in preparation for as …

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Russia presses invasion to outskirts of Ukrainian capital

Russia pressed its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital Friday after unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from three sides in an attack that could rewrite the global post-Cold War security order. Explosions sounded before dawn in Kyiv as Western …

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Why Arabs Do Not Trust the Biden Administration

Prominent Arab political analysts, commentators and journalists are continuing to express fear about Iran’s “expansionist” schemes in the Arab countries, especially Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. They say that they are worried that a return to the JCPOA would further embolden the mullahs in Tehran and the Iranian-backed terrorist groups. …

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