The Issue Russia has lost the military initiative in Ukraine as costs continue to mount. The Russian military has suffered 1.4 million battlefield casualties and as many as 450,000 deaths since its February 2022 full-scale invasion, according to new CSIS data. Russia’s territorial control in Ukraine shrank in the spring …

Le principal quotidien conservateur polonais, Rzeczpospolita, a finalement abordé le sujet. Le journaliste polonais Marek Kutarba a publié un article expliquant comment « Volodymyr Zelensky souhaiterait prendre la place de Donald Tusk dans les cercles politiques européens ». Il y écrit : « Du point de vue de Kiev, [le …

Executive summary: Ukraine’s long- and intermediate-range strike campaigns against Russian energy and logistics infrastructure in Russia and occupied Ukraine are causing significant effects on the Russian economy and impacting Russia’s ability to sustain its frontline military efforts in Ukraine. Ukrainian forces have recently intensified these coordinated strike campaigns, causing severe …

Le point de départ de mon intervention est une question en apparence simple: pourquoi rapprocher deux anniversaires aussi éloignés que les 250 ans de la Déclaration d’Indépendance des États-Unis d’Amérique et les 50 ans de la Charte d’Alger? La réponse, à mon avis, ne peut pas être seulement commémorative. La …

Interview with Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) The Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus (GCASC) and France have signed the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). The agreement, which provides a legal framework for the deployment of French troops on the island and …

Many were waiting for the answer on whether the Trump administration was willing to put its foot down to implement its own MoU; that answer has arrived. As expected, the United States has already destroyed its Memorandum of Understanding with Iran – instead of implementing what it signed, it has …

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Monday evening, July 6. Syria’s state-run al-Ikhbariya TV reported that Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani received the French president at Damascus airport. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview with the French channel BFMTV that Macron’s visit to …

Amid an official announcement that French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to visit Damascus, the file of French jihadists in Syria has returned to the forefront after Agence France-Presse published a detailed report on the situation of those who remain in the country, their relationship with Syria’s new authorities, and …

Il lui suffirait de menacer de couper les approvisionnements militaro-techniques ukrainiens en provenance de l’OTAN à la Pologne, soit en la privant de 90 % de ces importations, soit en la forçant à s’y conformer avant la rupture des approvisionnements. Malheureusement, il lui manque la volonté politique. La dénazification de …

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 …