March, 2024

• 15 March

  Qui conseille le chef de guerre au sommet de l’État français ?

  

  Depuis l’intervention de la Fédération de Russie en Ukraine le 24 février 2022, Emmanuel Macron se pose en chef de guerre incontesté en Europe. Ce doit être une idée fixe chez lui, car le 16 mars 2020, au début de la «crise sanitaire», ce dernier martelait au peuple français : …

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• 15 March

  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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• 15 March

  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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• 15 March

  Les troupes israéliennes se retirent de Khan Younès, laissant derrière elles un paysage de dévastation

  

  Suite au retrait de l’armée israélienne de Khan Yunis, les dégâts observés sont considérables à Gaza. Images prises le 13 mars 2024.

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• 15 March

  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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• 15 March

  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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• 15 March

  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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• 15 March

  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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• 15 March

  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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• 15 March

  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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