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The Ukraine War: Rise Of The West Or Sunset? – OpEd

In August 2021, the US withdrew from Afghanistan ending its two decades of military presence in the region. The US exit from Afghanistan resulted in the Taliban regaining control and this hurried withdrawal from Afghanistan was seen as the decline of the US power. Approximately 2,500 US troops died in …

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France: A ‘Field of Ruins’

France, once again, is on the verge of chaos. The subject of the discontent is the adoption of a law reforming the pension system in a minimal way: the legal retirement age in France has been set at 62 since 2010; the law raises it two years, to 64. Neither …

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Killed in Russia: Who was fighter-turned-blogger Tatarsky?

Russia accuses Ukraine and the opposition of involvement but Kyiv says ‘the spiders are eating each other in a jar’. Vladlen Tatarsky, a Russian pro-Kremlin war blogger with a criminal history, was killed in a bomb attack in a St Petersburg cafe on Sunday. Thirty others were also wounded in …

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Wagner claims ‘legal’ control of Ukraine’s Bakhmut

Russian group claims advance but Ukraine says its forces are still holding out as fighting remains ‘particularly hot’. Russia’s Wagner Group has claimed “legal” control of Ukraine’s Bakhmut, but Kyiv said its forces still held the eastern town, describing the fighting there as “particularly hot”. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of …

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OPEP : Les Saoudiens n’ont plus peur des États-Unis

Le choc des réductions de la production de pétrole à partir du mois de mai présenté dimanche par l’OPEP+ signifie essentiellement que huit pays clés de l’OPEP ont décidé de s’allier à la Russie pour réduire la production de pétrole, ce qui signifie que l’OPEP et l’OPEP+ reprennent le contrôle …

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L’Arabie saoudite prend son virage eurasien

Les récentes réconciliations de l’Arabie saoudite avec l’Iran et la Syrie sous l’égide de la Chine et de la Russie sont perçues comme une étape vers la réduction de la dépendance de Riyad à l’égard des États-Unis, tout en faisant progresser l’influence politique et économique de Pékin et de Moscou …

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