August 21, 2023 Africa, Eurasia, Magreb
Libyan politicians have floated a plan to put together an interim government. The UN and other external actors should support this step toward breaking the country’s political deadlock. Libya’s political crisis took a new turn after its House of Representatives, based in the eastern city of Tobruk, approved a plan …
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August 21, 2023 Eurasia
L’ensemble du dispositif politique américain – avec ou sans inculpation au titre de la FARA (Loi sur l’enregistrement des agents étrangers), et à l’approche des élections de 2024 – est fragile. La situation devient très confuse. On frôle la folie. Un nouvel acte d’accusation comportant quatre chefs d’inculpation relatifs aux …
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August 21, 2023 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
The Biden Administration also tried to deny that it had issued another waiver to Iraq to pay $500 million to the Iranian regime. According to a report by the Free Beacon, the waiver was issued “a day after Biden administration officials denied Iran’s claims that the United States had paved …
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August 21, 2023 Afghanistan, Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient, South East Asia
In mid-May, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi issued a warning to the Taliban: honor Afghanistan’s water-supply agreement or face the consequences. A well-known Taliban figure offered a mocking gift of a 20-liter water container in response and told him to stop making terrifying ultimatums. About a week later, a skirmish erupted …
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August 21, 2023 Afghanistan, Eurasia, South East Asia
Avec le recul, on peut considérer que l’occupation de l’Afghanistan par les armées des USA/OTAN n’étaient rien d’autre qu’une nouvelle grande guerre de l’opium comme celles menées contre la Chine au 19ème siècle, ou celles de l’apprès Deuxième Guerre mondiale menées par la France dans le Triangle d’Or en Indochine, …
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August 21, 2023 Eurasia, Romania
La mer Noire, traditionnellement zone de prospérité avec d’abondantes ressources agricoles mais aussi zone de transit énergétique nécessaire à l’Europe depuis la destruction des gazoducs Nord Stream, est devenue une zone d’affrontement. Le 19 juillet 2023, le ministère de la Défense russe a déclaré que tous les navires naviguant en …
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August 21, 2023 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Over the past two years, as the United States and the European Union have invested in the revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the Iranian leadership has opted to solidify its non-Western foreign policy approach. In line with this approach, President Ebrahim Raisi embarked on a three-country trip to …
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August 21, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The view across the Tigris River from the eighth floor of the Babylon Hotel reveals a telling mise-en-scène: As a giant neon billboard that adorns the gleaming 32-story Baghdad Mall flashes the Iraqi flag in between ads for Coca-Cola, the ghost of the late Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid looms large …
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August 21, 2023 Eurasia
Alexander DuginOnce we have established ourselves as a sovereign civilization, we need to change the dominant discourse. What everyone was afraid or embarrassed to say before (what the world community will think of us in the West …) must now be stated clearly and openly. So let’s say: we urgently …
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August 21, 2023 Eurasia
Alexander ProkhanovRussia is in dire need of an ideology capable of fighting the enemy on an invisible battlefield. Yeltsin destroyed the Soviet Union, and with it the communist ideology. The ideologues of victorious liberalism – Gaidar and Chubais – built a country that resembled an ugly caricature of the victorious …
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