June, 2022

• 9 June

  Vietnam Modernizes Its Military With a Wary Eye on China

  

  Ukraine’s successes in resisting and even turning back an invasion by a numerically superior Russian force has raised expectations in East Asia that smaller nations in the region could conceivably fend off an attack from a large military like China’s. Taiwan, of course, has long struggled with executing such a …

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• 9 June

  Turkey Is Playing With Fire in Syria—Again

  

  While the war in Syria has receded from the international spotlight, residents in the country’s northeast are bracing for a new wave of armed conflict. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has for months threatened to launch a military invasion of the region to push back Syrian Kurdish fighters and create …

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• 9 June

  Syria’s ‘Cold’ Civil War Could Easily Get Hot Again

  

  Back in June 2011, when news began to filter out from Syria of the first signs of armed resistance against the Baathist regime of President Bashar al-Assad, few could have predicted the level of disruption to the global order that the conflict in Syria would go on to produce. After …

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• 9 June

  Rima Urbonaitė. Besirūpinantiems Putino fizionomija metas žvilgtelėti į veidrodį

  Vienas kartas gali būti klaida. Tačiau pasikartojantys Prancūzijos prezidento Emmanuelio Macrono pareiškimai, kuriais raginama padėti išsaugoti Vladimirui Putinui veidą ir nepažeminti Rusijos, pradeda kelti vis daugiau klausimų. Paskutinį kartą matydamas V. Putino fizionomiją, E. Macronas, regis, sėdėjo taip toli, jog neturėjo progos įsitikinti, jog ten jau nėra ką saugoti. Kas …

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• 9 June

  Kell egy nép

  Putyin háborúja – magam is előszeretettel használom ezt a fordulatot Oroszország már több mint száz napja tartó, Ukrajna elleni inváziója kapcsán. Mert nyilván nem az orosz nép döntött annak megindításáról. Míg a nyugati hírszerzési jelentések alapján Európa és a világ az utóbbi időben, még ha hitetlenkedve is, de készült rá, …

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• 9 June

  UN Will Justify a Mirror Image of Putin’s War

  

  Putin went to war to turn into reality his much repeated insistence that Ukraine is an illegitimate state that has no right to exist and is inseparable from the rest of Russia. Similarly, the UN mandate allows it to question the very existence of the State of Israel. Unlike all …

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• 9 June

  Supporters of terror groups should not be in NATO, Turkey says

  

  Those who support a terrorist organization that targets a NATO ally should not be a part of the security bloc, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday. In a briefing, the ministry underlined that Turkey continues to share the values ​​and responsibilities of NATO and remains at the center of the alliance’s …

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• 9 June

  Syrian, Russian Air Forces Conduct First Joint Military Drill Since Start of Ukraine War

  

  Syrian and Russian warplanes on Tuesday carried out a joint military drill amid increasing Israeli airstrikes, Syria’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. It was the first such exercise since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began more than three months ago. In mid-February, before the Russian invasion on February 24, the …

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• 9 June

  Moroccan Navy Rescues 385 Migrants Crossing Mediterranean To Reach Europe

  

  The Moroccan Navy rescued 385 migrants heading for Spain last week, the official news agency MAP reported on Wednesday. The migrants, including women and minors, are mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, the agency quoted a military statement as saying. They were traveling in several inflatable boats in the Strait of Gibraltar, …

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• 9 June

  Turkey Says UN’s Ukraine Grain Export Plan Reasonable

  

  Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met Wednesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Ankara in an effort to stave off a global food crisis by restarting Ukrainian grain exports along a sea corridor. The UN’s plan to do so was “reasonable,” Çavuşoğlu said, and the talks were fruitful, but …

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