Eurasia

Dragon confiant établit feuille de route pour la modernisation

Alors que le projet Ukraine disparaît dans les oubliettes de l’histoire, le projet Taïwan passe à la vitesse supérieure. Les guerres éternelles ne meurent jamais. C’est l’année du Dragon de Bois, selon la culture classique chinoise du wuxing («cinq éléments»). Le dragon, l’un des douze signes du zodiaque chinois, est …

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L’Allemagne comme la France n’a plus d’argent pour financer la guerre en Ukraine

Le bilan des va-t-en guerre européens est au point mort, l’Allemagne comme la France peine à financer leur quota de l’OTAN. La solution consiste à faire des coupes budgétaires sur les autres ministères pour atteindre le financement de 2% du PIB destiné à l’OTAN. Comment peut-on vouloir gagner une guerre …

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Africa File, March 14, 2024: Foreign Fighters and Jihadi Rivalry in the Sahel; Somalia Backslides

Key Takeaways: Sahel. The Islamic State’s Sahel Province (ISSP) has established itself as a hub for foreign fighters, raising its transnational threat risk to Northwest Africa and Europe. ISSP and al Qaeda’s Sahelian affiliate have both taken advantage of an informal détente to improve their positions in the Burkinabe, Malian, …

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Middlemen Push Up Prices As Gazans Struggle To Survive

Taxi driver Wesam Shaath has become used to scouring the street stalls and shops of the southern Gazan city of Rafah for diapers for his twin baby boys. Before the Israel-Hamas war erupted on October 7, 2023, he paid the equivalent of around $6 for a box. Now he says …

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Israel strikes regime site in Quneitra

Israeli aircraft bombed a military site of the Syrian regime forces that it said was used as a launching pad for attacks carried out by the Lebanese militia Hezbollah in the province of Quneitra, southern Syria. The official account of the Israeli Air Force on platform “X” stated on Tuesday …

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Escalation of HTS’ inghimasi operations, Why?

The frequency of qualitative “inghimasi” shock offensive operations carried out by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has increased during the past two weeks, after months of cessation, against the Syrian regime forces near the front lines between them. The operations came after several strikes by the regime on sites close to …

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The Decline and Fall of It All? American Empire in Crisis

Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America. Great Britain confronted serious colonial crises …

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Why Russia Has Been So Resilient to Western Export Controls

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States imposed an unprecedented package of sanctions intended to make Russia pay a high economic cost for its aggression and to constrain the Russian military. U.S. President Joe Biden declared that Russia would “bear the consequences” for the invasion and emphasized that sanctions …

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America’s Real Enemy: The Salafi-Jihadi Movement

Executive Summary The United States is losing the war against an enemy it has misunderstood for decades. Al Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS), and the Salafi-jihadi groups that threaten the United States are stronger, smarter, and more resilient than they were on September 11, 2001. …

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