Toplines Russian President Vladimir Putin used a staged meeting with several Russian commanders on July 3 to make greatly exaggerated claims of Russian advances that do not match battlefield realities in order to construct a narrative of continuous Russian military successes. Putin met with the Russian Chief of the General …

Les temps sont durs pour tous ceux qui ont toujours critiqué l’OTAN. De l’époque de la “défense du monde libre” contre le communisme, en passant par celle des “interventions humanitaires” et de la “guerre mondiale contre le terrorisme”, jusqu’à la lutte prétendument existentielle d’aujourd’hui contre la quasi-totalité du monde non …

Washington and Tehran signed a memorandum of understanding that has not stopped the exchange of fire in the Gulf but has already produced a renewed and more aggressive repression campaign inside Iran. This crackdown can be understood as the regime’s response to Iranians who had begun to imagine what their …