February 19, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
This week, the Gulf Cooperation Council is hosting a delegation of senior US defense and military leaders in Riyadh to continue the important collaboration of the US-GCC Defense Working Groups. Two key themes have emerged from our collective efforts: That the US is committed to this region and its security, …
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February 19, 2023 Balkans, Eurasia
Dozens of pits and ravines and in mountainous Bosnia and Herzegovina were used to hide bodies of massacre victims and conceal crimes from outsiders during the 1992-95 war – as they were also used during World War II. In mid-June 1992, as the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina began in …
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February 19, 2023 Eurasia
Pendant ce temps, des nouvelles du cirque Alors que l’Amérique est prête à payer pour que le dernier Ukrainien meure pour elle, le monde occidental parle d’autre chose : Harry Windsor a révélé le secret de famille. Le secret de famille était que Harry est un idiot, dont les ficelles …
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February 19, 2023 Eurasia, South East Asia
This [spy balloon’s eight-day flight] path certainly suggests China is gathering intelligence for either a first or second strike on America’s nukes. Combined with the green lasers collecting atmospheric data useful for a strike by a hypersonic glide vehicle on Hawaii, American defense planners should be alarmed. The real story …
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February 19, 2023 Eurasia
Independence remains defining issue in Scottish politics and is likely to stay so regardless of who picks up the SNP baton Nicola Sturgeon ran out of road. It is as simple as that. Scotland’s first minister, a supreme communicator with a strong claim to being the most effective political leader …
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February 19, 2023 Eurasia
Former president Milan Kučan and many other prominent names are calling on countries to end the war in Ukraine. Several prominent politicians, intellectuals and artists called on the EU, NATO, the United States of America and the Russian Federation to end the war in Ukraine in a public letter signed …
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February 19, 2023 Eurasia
La SMP « Wagner » est une société militaire privée fondée, financée et dirigée par Evgueni Prigojine, homme d’affaires et aventurier quelque peu hors normes. Le fait que ce soit une société privée ne veut pas dire qu’elle soit sans foi ni loi – ni surtout sans patrie : la …
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February 19, 2023 Balkans, Eurasia, Serbia
On February 17, 2008, the Assembly of Kosovo adopted by acclamation the Declaration on the Independence of Kosovo. All 109 Albanian MPs voted for the declaration. As Danas wrote at the time, the Kosovo Parliament continued its work in an extraordinary session by adopting the state symbols – the coat …
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February 19, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The geopolitical evolutions in the Middle East marked by the so-called “Arab Spring”, the conflict in Yemen, the threat represented by the Iranian nuclear program and other global geopolitical developments determined United Arab Emirates (UAE) to take some important steps for modernizing and improving its intelligence services starting with the …
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February 19, 2023 Eurasia
NATO Defence Ministers are meeting in Brussels this week (14-15 February 2023) to strengthen the Alliance’s deterrence and defence, and step up and sustain for Ukraine.
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