December, 2021

• 23 December

  Joe Biden and NATO Ally Don’t Want Their Own Troops Reining in Russia on Ukraine

  

  President Joe Biden and a key U.S. ally have both rejected the idea of using their respective country’s troops to rein in Russia, as tens of thousands of President Vladimir Putin‘s troops amass at the country’s border with Ukraine. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace appeared to rule out deploying troops …

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• 23 December

  L’Europa e Putin: il grande gioco del gas

  Nord Stream 2: il nuovo governo tedesco, prima Baerbock, poi Scholz e infine Habeck, hanno ripetuto che il gasdotto non può diventare operativo perché non rispetta le regole della concorrenza vigenti nell’Ue E se fossero i funzionari di Bruxelles e Berlino, con la benevola negligenza del governo tedesco, a dare …

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• 23 December

  Afinal o que quer Putin?

  O Kremlin quer respostas rápidas às suas exigências sabendo que Putin colocou muito alto a fasquia, o que tornará as conversações morosas e difíceis. E ele jamais está disposto a fazer figura de fraco As propostas feitas por Vladimir Putin para normalizar as relações com a NATO e os Estados …

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• 23 December

  Turkey and Egypt Open the Door to a Diplomatic Thaw

  

  In mid-March, Turkey and Egypt confirmed they’d had their first diplomatic contact since breaking off relations in 2013. Though the talks were described by Egyptian sources as preliminary, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying, “Contacts at the diplomatic level have started.” The thaw comes after a decade …

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• 23 December

  Mozambique Could Become Africa’s Next Piracy Hot Spot

  

  On March 24, Ansar al-Sunna, a militant group linked to the Islamic State, launched a bloody attack on the coastal town of Palma, in northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, leaving at least 61 dead and scores more unaccounted for. The assault, which lasted more than a week and took place …

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• 23 December

  Why Piracy Is a Growing Threat in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea

  

  In early May, a high-speed boat pulled alongside the Rio Mitong, a Panama-flagged cargo vessel, just off the coast of Equatorial Guinea. Using ladders to board the ship, a group of assailants kidnapped two crew members, taking them back to the shore, where they subsequently held them for ransom. Another …

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• 23 December

  The Persistence of Borders in a Globalized World

  Back in 1990, when the Soviet bloc was crumbling into new nations, Kenichi Ohmae, a Japanese organizational theorist and management consultant, had the audacity to suggest that humankind was on the cusp of a new “borderless world,” in a book of the same name. Ohmae’s goal was mainly to sketch …

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• 23 December

  Edward Lucas: Helsingi, mitte Jalta

  Ağustos ayında hükümetin 2022 baharında erken seçim hazırlığında olduğunu ifade etmiştim. Okuyuculardan da birçok uzmandan da 2022 Kasım ayından önce seçim olmayacağı tepkisi gelmişti. Bu tepkinin en temel nedeni ise o dönem üzerinde konuşulan Seçim Kanunu’nda değişiklik yapılması meselesiydi. Değişiklik yapıldıktan bir yıl sonrasına kadar yapılan değişiklikler uygulanamayacağı için Kasım …

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• 23 December

  Iraqi air force strikes Islamic State targets

  Iraq has bombed Islamic State targets in the eastern Diyala province for the second month in a row. The Iraqi air force conducted airstrikes against the Islamic State today following a flurry of attacks. Iraqi pilots using US-made F-16 fighter jets struck IS outside of Sadiyah in the Diyala province …

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• 20 December

  Country Reports on Terrorism 2020

  

  Country Reports on Terrorism 2020 is submitted in compliance with Title 22 of the United States Code, Section 2656f (the “Act”), which requires the Department of State to provide to Congress a full and complete annual report on terrorism for those countries and groups meeting the criteria of the Act. …

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